"Meeting Global Challenges: U.S.-German Innovation Policy" ed. by Charles W. Wessner

The volume reviews the participants meeting and sets goals and recommendations for future policy.

In response to new, more distributed innovation paradigm, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened leading academics, business leaders, and senior policymakers from Germany and the United States to examine the strengths and challenges of their innovation systems.

Contents
Preface
I: OVERVIEW
Overview
II: PROCEEDINGS
DAY 1 Welcome–Gert G. Wagner
Opening Remarks for Germany–Georg Schutte
Opening Remarks for the United States–The Honorable Philip Murphy
Keynote Address-^John Fernandez
Panel I: Current Trends in Innovation Policy
Keynote Address-Werner Hoyer
Panel II: Competition and Cooperation in a Global Economy
Panel III: Human Resources, Competition for Manpower, and the Internationalization of Labor
Panel IV: Growing Universities for the 21st Century
Roundtable: Competition and Cooperation: Systematic Challenges
DAY 2 Panel V: Helping Small Business: Current Trends and Programs
Panel VI: Early-Stage Finance and Entrepreneurship
Panel VII: Policies and Programs for C02 Reduction
Panel VIII: Building Electric Vehicle Industries
Panel IX: Medical/Biomedical Innovation for the 21st Century
Panel X: Policies and Programs to Build Solar Industries
Roundtable: Energy Change: What Are the Consequences for the German and U.S. Innovation Systems?
Closing Remarks
III: APPENDIXES
Appendix A: Agenda
Appendix B: Bibliography

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