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Enabling Economic Recovery Through Innovation
We will release the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 print edition of Science Progress next Monday, January 12. This issue will feature entirely new content on regional centers of innovation, patent reform, and government contracting of scientific and technological work.
The release event, here at the Center for American Progress, will feature two separate panels: one on regional centers, the other on patents. To RSVP, visit the americanprogress.org event page. Here’s the full description and list of participants:
Enabling Economic Recovery Through Innovation
The incoming Obama administration and the new 111th Congress will have a historic opportunity to boost U.S. economic competitiveness and broad-based economic growth through targeted reforms of our country’s patent system and scientific research-and-development and workforce development programs. Our patent system and today’s federal programs were designed to address 20th-century problems, not the new challenges posed by globalization and worldwide economic distress.
The latest edition of the CAP’s Science Progress journal presents the results of two roundtables convened to consider ways to reform our patent system and encourage the growth of regional centers of innovation around the country. Those recommendations will be unveiled in Science Progress along with two panel discussions on the topics. Please join our distinguished panelists, including participants of our two roundtables and authors of some of our new policy recommendations.
9:30 a.m.
Regional Centers of Innovation Panel:
Robert Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Maryann P. Feldman, Heninger Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina
Thomas Kalil, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Richard Seline, CEO and Principal of New Economy Strategies
Discussion moderated by:
James K. Turner, former Chief Democratic Counsel to the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology
11:00 a.m.
Featured Speakers on Patent Reform:
Bruce A. Lehman, Chairman of International Intellectual Property Institute
Paul R. Michel, Chief Circuit Judge
Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law at Duke University
Rick Weiss, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
Discussion Moderated by:
Daniel P. McCurdy, CEO of Allied Security Trust and Chairman of PatentFreedom
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Comments on this article
Making and selling innovative products has always driven a healthy economy. The buyer used to feel connected to the producer because they were connected - economically, geographically and emotionally. The world has shrunk and we’re all neighbours now but that connection has been lost. Free trade turned out to be extremely costly indeed serving perhaps the few and often those who least deserved to reward from the skill and endeavours of the many. Fair trade is the way forward - social cohesion is value rated. Simply put - the design and making of sustainable products to sell should benefit all involved - economically, emotionally and ecologically.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:36 am