We Are Still Losing the Competitive Advantage
  Now Is the Time To Act

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Two years ago, AeA released Losing the Competitive Advantage?: The Challenge for Science and Technology in the United States. That report focused on the analysis of a growing problem: that although the United States still leads the world in science, technology, and innovation, it is at risk of squandering this preeminence as countries across the globe became more competitive and as we ignored the factors that got us here in the first place.

Today we release a new and expanded edition of that report, shifting emphasis more towards recommendations for action, with updated data and analysis providing the context. We release this new report because over the last two years, on the one hand, so much has changed. But on the other hand, unfortunately, so little has changed.

America’s political leaders have become aware that more and more countries, companies, universities, and individuals around the world are trying to out-compete us.  And yet, we have not moved forward.

AeA calls on Democratic and Republican legislators, as well as the Bush Administration, to act in the 110^th Congress on what was essentially agreed on but did not pass in the 109^th: comprehensive legislation to advance American competitiveness in a global economy.

In the wake of the tremendous response AeA's initial competitiveness report received, we 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.
 

Losing the Competitive Advantage?: The Challenge for Science and Technology in the United States  AeA's original competitiveness report is considered by many business leaders and policymakers to be the definitive statement on U.S. competitiveness.  It explores the challenges the United States currently faces and in many ways is ignoring at its peril.
February 2005

Matthew Kazmierczak
Vice President, Research and Industry Analysis
202.682.4438
matthew_kazmierczak@aeanet.org

Josh James
Senior Manager, Research and Industry Analysis
202.682.4422
josh_james@aeanet.org

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