Losing the Competitive Advantage?
  The Challenge for Science and Technology in the United States

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Losing the Competitive Advantage? explores the challenges the United States currently faces and, in many ways, is ignoring at its peril. Our purpose is to alert audiences that America’s edge, particularly in science and technology, is increasingly at risk.

AeA began this discussion in March 2004 with our report on offshore outsourcing. Our view then, as it remains now, was that offshoring is merely a symptom of a dramatically shifting global economy and the U.S. role within it. This report serves as a natural sequel, in that it addresses this big picture.

Many of the findings in this report may sound vaguely familiar, even obvious; others may seem surprising. Each of the variables discussed within these pages - when taken in isolation as they so often are - do not necessarily constitute a crisis. It is the interrelationship that makes the more compelling case that the status quo is unsustainable.

Our hope is that by examining the cumulative effect, not just the discrete statistics, any reasonable person will see the need to act.  Read the entire Executive Summary

In the wake of the tremendous response this report received, AeA has launched an ongoing Competitiveness Series.  The AeA research team produces these reports on the most timely and relevant issues to the high-tech industry and to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy.  We combine rigorous data with careful analysis to provide industry leaders and policymakers the information they need to assess the issue.
 

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