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America actually faces three deficits—the budget deficit, the trade deficit, and the investment deficit—that, if left unchecked, could total over $41 trillion in the next 10 years.

A scorecard ranking APEC economies on their innovation-based policies to spur competitiveness and growth.

The most accurate diagnosis for the anemic U.S. recovery is the continued failure to revive innovation-based competitiveness, including in manufacturing.

The product of a collaboration from business and labor organizations to academic institutions, the charter underscores the importance of manufacturing and provides policy recommendations for ensuring the U.S. manufacturing environment.

Do we have a successful formula when it comes to STEM education? In a provocative new report, ITIF President Robert D. Atkinson and education expert Merrilea Mayo, Ph.D., challenge our current approach and argue that reforms are urgently needed.

The Atlantic Century II updates ITIF’s 2009 report on the United States’ innovation-based competitiveness compared with a diverse group of countries. The U.S. continues to rank at the bottom on progress over the last decade.

The State New Economy Index uses 26 indicators to measure the extent to which state economies are knowledge-based, globalized, entrepreneurial, IT-driven and innovation-based.
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