{"80811":{"#nid":"80811","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Council on Competitiveness Releases Interim Innovation Report","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA spectrum of leaders representing American industry and higher education recently released an important plan of action suggesting ways to make the United States the world\u0027s most fertile and attractive environment for innovation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Innovation Initiative\u0027s interim report, \u0022Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change,\u0022 sets out to show how the very nature of innovation itself is changing and, with it, America\u0027s basis for competitive success and prosperity in the 21st century. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESamuel J. Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM Corp., and G. Wayne Clough, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-chair the initiative in partnership with 18 CEOs and university presidents. Additionally, hundreds of leaders and scholars from universities, corporations, professional societies, industrial associations and government agencies are engaged in the effort to affect change through this initiative.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Innovation Initiative is a 15-month effort of the Council on Competitiveness, a non-profit, non-partisan association of leaders from the business, university, and labor communities working together to set a national action agenda for American leadership in the global marketplace, technological innovation and education.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative was announced in October 2003 at the council\u0027s annual meeting, and the final National Innovation Initiative report will be released Dec. 15, 2004, during a summit in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The new report sets out to show how the very nature of innovation itself is changing and, with it, America\u0027s basis for competitive success and prosperity.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2004-07-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:01:58","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2004-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"80821":{"id":"80821","type":"image","title":"The Campanile","body":null,"created":"1449178079","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:59","changed":"1475894696","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:56"}},"media_ids":["80821"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.president.gatech.edu\/","title":"Office of the President"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/pdf\/NII_Interim_Report.pdf","title":"Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change (PDF)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.compete.org\/","title":"Council on Competitiveness"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}