{"112981":{"#nid":"112981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Breznitz Speaks at Brookings Forum on Innovation and Production Policy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Breznitz, Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was a panelist on\u0026nbsp;a forum about innovation and production hosted by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution on February 22 in Washington, DC. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe forum, entitled \u0022Why- and Which-Manufacturing Matters: Innovation and Production in the United States,\u0022\u0026nbsp;examined manufacturing methods, policies, and export-intensive production. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz and the other panel members are all CONNECT Innovation Institute scholars from the private sector and academia. During the forum, the panelists presented recommendations regarding specific actions that can ensure competitiveness, particularly at the regional level, in order to enhance the benefits of innovation across society. Breznitz focused on the relationship between innovation and economic growth, as well as innovation policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In order for innovation to help economic growth we can\u0027t stop just in the act of inventing, we actually have to come with products and services and continuously improve them and make them cheaper,\u0022 Breznitz said. \u0022That\u0027s where innovation has its true impact on economic growth.\u0022\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe continued, \u0022The world has changed. Our theories and, especially, the way we think about policies have not. One of the major changes of the new so-called globalization is that we have fragmented production.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz was asked by the moderator, Robert Atkinson, to elaborate on industrial policy in terms of innovation and economic growth. He responded, \u0022I would say that if we care... about innovation and economic growth in this country, we have to realize that if we want to excel in producing\u0026nbsp;services and products (most of which\u0026nbsp;are\u0026nbsp;the same thing or are combined),\u0026nbsp;we have to think about the difficult task of coordination\u0026nbsp;across many different companies.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\u0022\u003EBrookings Institution\u003C\/a\u003E is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.connect.org\/programs\/innovation-institute\/\u0022\u003ECONNECT Innovation Institute \u003C\/a\u003Eis a think tank\u0026nbsp;to develop and publish white papers on innovation policy and competiveness in the global economy. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Breznitz, Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was a panelist for\u0026nbsp;a forum about innovation and production hosted by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution on February 22 in Washington, DC.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-02-28 13:24:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"112991":{"id":"112991","type":"image","title":"Dan Breznitz at Brookings Forum","body":null,"created":"1449178226","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:26","changed":"1475894731","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:31","alt":"Dan Breznitz at Brookings Forum","file":{"fid":"194170","name":"breznitz_brookings.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breznitz_brookings_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breznitz_brookings_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":111257,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breznitz_brookings_0.png?itok=JKZbKbXd"}}},"media_ids":["112991"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/events\/2012\/0222_manufacturing_matters.aspx","title":"Forum Video"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/breznitz","title":"Dan Breznitz Bio"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/","title":"Brookings Institution"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.connect.org\/programs\/innovation-institute\/","title":"CONNECT Innovation Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"25421","name":"Brookings"},{"id":"13050","name":"Dan Breznitz"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"3984","name":"panel"},{"id":"767","name":"Policy"},{"id":"2811","name":"production"},{"id":"167256","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}