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  • Regional Economic and Workforce Strategies: A Focus on the Mature Workforce

    “Regional Economic and Workforce Strategies: A Focus on the Mature Workforce.”

    Prepared by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) and the Council on Competitiveness

         
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  • Regional Innovation National Prosperity

    “Regional Innovation National Prosperity.”

    Prepared for the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration

    Regional Innovation, National Prosperity is a summary of the Regional Competitiveness Initiative as well as the proceedings of the National Summit on Regional Innovation, held in April 2005. Integrating the Council’s findings from the past two years and the conference discussions, this report identifies five key cross-cutting issues faced by regions seeking to build innovation-based strategies and suggests potential responses to these challenges.
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  • Reveal HPC

    “Reveal.”

    Council on Competitiveness and USC-ISI Broad Study of Desktop Technical Computing End Users and HPC

    This first-ever broad industry survey examines why companies have not made the switch from desktop PCs and workstations to more powerful high performance computers, given their proven competitive benefits.

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  • Science and Business: Moving Beyond Lab and Board Room

    “Science and Business: Moving Beyond Lab and Board Room.”

    Humans have been seeking new knowledge and new ways of applying it since the dawn of civilization, and science and business have been intertwined nearly as long. For centuries, the pursuit of knowledge proceeded at a measured, even courtly pace. The turbulence of breakthrough invention was followed by long periods of adjustment and stability. And the businesses that launched those inventions often had years to rest on their laurels until the competition caught up.
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  • Setting the Global Bar for Energy Efficiency

    “Setting the Global Bar for Energy Efficiency.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Reward Efficiency

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress set the 2030 CAFE standard to 100 mpg and provide more federal transportation funding to states that are the most effective in reducing vehicle miles traveled per person.

    • All states decouple utility rates from gross energy sales and focus on providing utilities with a reasonable rate of return on all their investments.
     
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  • Southern Energy Summit

    “Southern Energy Summit: The Path to Energy Diversification.”

    Addressing Public Policy, Business and Technological Challenges to Sustainable Energy Supplies

       
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  • Handout 5 Spawning

    “Spawning Technological Breakthroughs and Entrepreneurship.”

    Council on Competitiveness Recommendations to Discover the Future and Break Energy Technology Barriers

    The Council Recommends that:

    • Congress support ten commercial-scale carbon capture
    demonstrations to be completed by 2020 and three to
    five at-scale demonstrations of energy storage technologies.

    • Congress support three to five demonstrations of new
    nuclear reactors by 2018.

    • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) create the 21st
    “Century Clean Energy Leadership Initiative” funded at
    $250 million to create regionally-based R&D test-beds and large-scale commercial pilots.

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  • First HPC Users Con Report

    “Supercharging U.S. Innovation & Competition.”

    2004 HPC Users Conference final report

    The final report from the 2004 High Performance Computing Users Conference, Supercharging U.S. Innovation & Competitiveness, features the observations of senior government, business and academic high performance computing (HPC) users and policy makers, regarding grand challenge problems that require petascale capability and the barriers limiting private sector application of HPC.

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  • Folgers HPC

    “Supercomputers and the Secret Life of Coffee.”

    To improve the freshness of its Folgers® coffee and reduce the costs of packaging, researchers at Procter & Gamble decided to switch from a metal can to a plastic container. However, they ran into a number of problems related to gas build up inside the containers, fluctuations caused by changes in atmospheric pressure during shipment and a problem associated with the coffee cans imploding while being trucked to their destination. This latter problem almost caused the entire research project to fail. The group used high performance computing both to solve their problems in a timely fashion, and provide the company with a competitive advantage as well.

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