Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Weili Dai, and Rob Atkinson at the Commonwealth Club in Silicon Valley on January 19, 2011
Posted by Tarek Saleh on January 13, 2011
Please join Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Honorary Co-Chair Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) and ITIF President Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D at their Commonwealth Club panel discussion at 6:30 pm on January 19th, 2011. They will be joined by Weili Dai, Marvell Technology Group Co-Founder, in a talk about what California and the United States needs to do to reverse innovation decline in the next decade. Attendance is open to the public. The Center for the Next Generation and The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation will also host a 5:30 pm reception before the discussion.
Location:
Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley
Quadrus Conference Center
2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Schedule:
5:30 p.m. – Reception for ticketed attendees
6:30 p.m. – Panel discussion
Ticket Information:
https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=2088
Topic:
A recent study by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation in its report “The Atlantic Century” (a report regularly cited by Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter, White House CTO Aneesh Chopra, and others), found that the U.S. ranks last out of 40 nations in progress made in the last decade on innovation-based competitiveness. When compared to other nations we have failed to grow our innovation economy, which is measured by factors such as corporate R&D, numbers of scientists and engineers, venture capital investments, and more.
The consequences of our decline are significant. Some believe that the lack of innovation-based competitiveness contributed to the financial crisis and is a driving factor in the anemic nature of the current U.S. recovery. Unless we take steps now on an array of fronts – tax policy, trade, support for science and technology, education and others – the United States is likely to continue to slip with deleterious implications for productivity, wage growth, business vitality and the trade deficit.
Our panel will discuss what is needed and how Washington can collaborate to play a more effective role in supporting the policies needed to restore America’s innovation, and economic, leadership.
Event partners include: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and The Center for the Next Generation.
Please contact Tarek Saleh by email at tsaleh@maderagroup.net for more information.
Click below for more information about the Commonwealth Club event:
https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=2088
