Top Features
Series on U.S. Science, Innovation, and Economic Competitiveness
Two CAP teams, one from Science Progress and the other from the Doing What Works project, release a series of reports focusing on different building blocks of our national competitiveness.
Will Congress Block Infrastructure Spending?
Donna Cooper expects congressional Republicans to block the president’s latest call for infrastructure spending to boost jobs and improve our economic competitiveness.
The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness
Laura Tyson and Greg Linden examine the role of the R&D tax credit in federal government support for research and development.Other Technology & Innovation Features
February 8, 2012
Innovation Across Government
As Aneesh Chopra wraps up his tenure this month as the first U.S. chief technology officer, he discusses innovative ways the country can solve problems and grow the economy at a CAP event.
January 25, 2012
President Obama Links Middle-Class Prosperity and Innovation
Ed Paisley and Sean Pool explore the president’s science and innovation policies to demonstrate how key they are to sustained middle-class prosperity.
January 19, 2012
Universities in Innovation Networks
Krisztina “Z” Holly looks at the vital and extensive role universities play in driving innovation in the United States.
January 19, 2012
Rewiring the Federal Government for Competitiveness
We must reorganize part of the federal government in order to efficiently invest in our future economic competitiveness and scientific innovation, write Johnathan Sallet and Sean Pool.
January 19, 2012
Immigration for Innovation
Marshall Fitz looks at how to enhance labor market mobility and promote economic growth while advancing workforce stability through enforceable labor standards and protections.
January 19, 2012
Economic Intelligence
Andrew D. Reamer looks at ways the federal statistical system can better support the nation's economic competitiveness.
January 19, 2012
Building a Technically Skilled Workforce
Louis Soares and Stephen Steigleder propose a private-public partnership grant program to boost the middle-skill workers that America will require to be globally competitive.
November 16, 2011
Innovation for the Public Good: Taking the First Steps to Build an Innovation Culture
Jitinder Kohli describes the four initial steps that agencies should take to promote innovation.
November 10, 2011
Big Ideas for Small Business
CAP offers proposals to form a progressive pro-business agenda for the small- and medium-sized companies that America's economic competitiveness depends on.
November 2, 2011