Comparative Innovation Policy. Innovative Flanders. Innovation Policies for the 21st Century. Report of a Symposium

摘要

Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a part of the international competition for economic leadership, governments around the world are taking active steps to strengthen their national innovation systems. These steps underscore the belief that the rising costs and risks associated with new potentially high-payoff technologies, and the growing global dispersal of technical expertise, require national research and development programs to support new and existing high-technology firms within their borders. What is the impact of this new international competition for the United States. In a recent report, the National Academies warned that this nation must prepare with great urgency to preserve its strategic and economic security, adding that the United States must compete by optimizing its knowledge-based resources, particularly in science and technology, and by sustaining the most fertile environment for new and revitalized industries and the well-paying jobs they bring.