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Great example of the innovation commons applied to health care in Aneesha Chopra’s (US CTO) speech to the Commonwealth Club of California. -SP
Posted in Healthcare, US Government
Rana Foroohar in Newsweek “How to Build Again” (July 10, 2010) discusses the need to rebalance our economy – including adjusting the mix of services (70%) versus manufacturing (11%). Her summary of the Council on Competitiveness and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu joint report “2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index”, is that innovation not labor costs is the primary factor that determines a country’s success in manufacturing. Labor costs is the second factor, followed by energy costs (which she argues we need a national policy). She goes on to suggest vocational eduction funding along with immigration reform for skilled individuals.
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Andy Grove, former CEO and Chairman of Intel, writes in Businessweek about how companies have lost both their competitiveness and American jobs by moving manufacturing (capacity to “scale up”) off-shore. He discuss the need to rebuild our “industrial commons” through national policy even if it requires an import tax.
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