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Paper – Phil Weiser & Jon Sallet,The Case for Innovation Policy: Key Principles for National Success
Innovation policy is on the national agenda, with President Obama calling for policies that will enable the United States to “out-innovate, out-build, and out-educate the world.” Right after his State of the Union Address, President Obama released A Strategy For American Innovation, which sets forth the Administration’s approach to promoting innovation. In a related effort, as part of the America Competes Act, the Department of Commerce is required to develop an overall assessment of the innovation capacity and competitiveness of the U.S. economy, consulting with an advisory committee as part of that process.
To join in the national conversation about the future of innovation policy and national competitiveness, this conference will bring together a number of leading thinkers, industry leaders, and policymakers to focus on a critical set of questions that bear on innovation. The conference will focus on three principal questions as to the role of government in spurring innovation and economic growth – (1) how it can enable the basic building blocks; (2) how it can support the development of entrepreneurial clusters and regional innovation; and (3) what strategies it can employ to advance national competitiveness in a global economy.
Sessions
Welcome
- Phil Weiser
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Opening Address
- Michael F. Bennet
United States Senator for Colorado
The Building Blocks for Innovation: Historical and Economic Perspectives
- Phil Weiser — Moderator
Hatfield Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School - F.M. Scherer
Professor Emeritus, John F. Kennedy School of Government - Benjamin F. Jones
Associate Professor, Kellogg School of Management - Terrell McSweeny
Senior Counsel, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice - Keith Maskus
Professor, Department of Economics, Associate Dean for Social Sciences - Nicholas Carr
Author, "The Big Switch" & "The Shallows"
Spurring Entrepreneurial Clusters and Regional Innovation
- Brad Bernthal — Moderator
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School - David Cohen
Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Techstars - Lesa Mitchell
Vice President, Advancing Innovation, Kauffman Foundation - Sharon Matusik
Professor, Leeds School of Business - Paul Washington
President, LJS Holdings LLC
Break
Strategies to Promote National Competitiveness
- Jonathan Sallet — Moderator
General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission - Robert D. Atkinson
President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - James Manyika
Director, McKinsey Global Institute - Richard Rapp
Special Consultant, NERA Economic Consulting - Abby Joseph Cohen
President and Senior Investment Strategist, Global Markets Institute
Closing Panel
- Irwin Jacobs
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Qualcomm - Carl Shapiro
Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley