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Volume 32 - December 16, 2011


Feature Articles

By Stephen Ezell
 

The last decade has seen an increasing realization by economists and policy makers alike that it is not so much the accumulation of more savings or capital but rather it is innovation - the improvement of existing or the creation of entirely new products, processes, services, and business or organizational models - that drives countries' long-run economic growth and improvements in standards of living.
 
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On September 16, President Obama signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The law represents the most significant overhaul of the US Patent Act since 1952 and seeks to help American entrepreneurs and businesses bring their inventions to market sooner, thus helping to accelerate the creation of urgently needed new jobs. bridges spoke with David Kappos, director of the US Patent and Trademark Office.

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By Laura Diaz Anadon, et al.
 
The United States and the world need a revolution in energy technology. In 2008, researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs launched the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Project (ERD3) with the goal of producing and promoting a comprehensive set of recommendations.

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Highly skilled and well-trained workforces are as important for an economy's competitiveness as are well-educated and excellent innovators. Austria and the US follow different approaches to training and educating those skilled workers. The article tries to give a brief overview of vocational-training systems in Austria and the US, with a special focus on the Austrian dual (education and on-the-job training) system of apprenticeships.

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Pielke's Perspective
 Neureiter on S&T in Diplomacy

By Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
On a chilly day in Stockholm last month, I visited the Vasa museum. Situated on the waterfront, the museum holds a sailing ship that sank in the Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage in 1628. The Vasa was to be a technological marvel of its day, during a period when “international competitiveness” had a familiar meaning.

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Norman P. NeureiterUpdate on India and a Visit to Japan

By Norman P. Neureiter

A meeting of the joint Governing Body of the Indo-US S&T Forum held in Delhi last week showed the vitality of this unique cooperative mechanism for US-India S&T cooperation. After the Forum, I went on to Japan, where I gave a keynote address at a meeting on “Science and Technology for a Safe and Secure Society.”

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