ITIF and Silicon Flatirons will bring together experts for a major conference that will explore the seriousness of America’s innovation and competitiveness challenge.

Release of a new report that benchmarks the competitiveness of the innovation and trade policies of 55 nations.

Senior Analyst Stephen Ezell will participate in a round table for FRB-Atlanta on market conditions for small business growth and access to risk capital.

Policies should promote ­not restrict activities like venture investing that do no harm, but that produce tremendous good.

The Great Recession has given way to a less-than-great recovery and the pressure is on for Washington to respond. ITIF President Rob Atkinson and Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, will debate progressive economic policies.

ITIF affirmed it praise for the President's focus on competitiveness but makes the case for more robust R&D, tax, trade and energy.

ITIF will host Jerald Hage as he lays out his ground-breaking ideas on to measure the innovation challenge and technical progress in a timely way, fresh approaches for public-private cooperation in manufacturing research, and other ideas.

In his new book, Restoring the Innovation Edge (Stanford Business Books), Jerald Hage, Director of the Center for Innovation at the University of Maryland, explores remedies to this growing problem, looking at eight key obstacles that the U.S. faces in restoring its innovative edge.

A recent court case and inaction by Congress are putting the U.S. Export-Import Bank in peril just as the U.S. should be looking to enhance competitiveness.

If America wants a manufacturing rebound, it can’t just hope, wish and pray. It has to act.