Reed's Ruminations: A Blog by Dan Reed

Innovation: The Plane of Excellence

Today, we endlessly debate globalization, international competitiveness and the U.S. position in the 21st century knowledge economy. As confused economic armies struggle and clash on Arnold's darkling plain, what are the essential ingredients of technical innovation? Is the economic world flattened by technology? If so, how does one induce local curvature, creating competitive advantage?

PCAST, NITRD and the Future

In a previous post, I discussed the ongoing review of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) serving in this role as the President’s IT Advisory Committee (PITAC). On Monday, the PCAST report, Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World, was distributed with an accompanying press release.