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Information Technology And Innovation Foundation

Type: Organization

Name: Information Technology And Innovation Foundation

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Carl Levin

Assailing corporations is a poor competitiveness strategy

As globalization and offshoring have ramped up, the left and right have both responded with failed strategies.The right’s response has been Panglossian, denying the problem. The left’s response has been vituperative, and worse in its consequences. When ... [Published The Hill - May 20 2013]

Entities: United States, Taxes, Carl Levin, Assault

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in U.S. immigration fight

The technology industry and organized labor are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the U.S. Senate's immigration bill.At the heart of the debate is whether there is a shortage of Americans with the math and science skills needed for work at ... [Published Reuters - May 18 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Workers, United States

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Apple's Cook Heads to Washington to Talk Taxes

Microsoft and HP executives have had to answer pointed questions from Congress about their offshore cash strategies. Now it's Apple's turn. CEO Tim Cook is slated to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee considering tax code changes regarding offshore ... [Published Mac News World - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tim Cook, Taxes, James Post, Carl Levin

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

The U.S. STEM Workforce: The Real Story

The United States faces significant workforce challenges, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, and high-skill immigration is a key avenue for addressing this issue. In the new report, "The Real Story on Guestworkers ... [Published Digital Journal - May 16 2013]

Entities: Robert Atkinson, United States, Immigration, Workers

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

New Jersey Institute of Technology

EU-NJ Business Forum

Location: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)323 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ When:May 15, 2013Time: 9:00 am–2:00 pmIf you want to learn more about helping your business or company grow in Europe, don’t miss a free one day business forum ... [Published South Ward Patch - May 11 2013]

Entities: Invention, Chamber of Commerce, Robert Atkinson, Information Technology And Innovation Foundation, New Jersey Institute of Technology

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

European Union

How Europe and the US can compete with China on renewables

The push for privatisation and deregulation by Europe and the US is preventing them from competing with China on renewablesTrade barriers against Chinese solar imports will not help the EU or US build a competitive renewable industry (Image by Walmart ... [Published China Dialogue - May 10 2013]

Entities: China, Solar Cell, Silicon, Sanctions, European Union

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Companies Finance University Efforts to Improve Science Education

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced the selection of nine university groups for a $10-million initiative with corporate partners to improve the teaching of engineering to undergraduates.Under the program, known as "Graduate 10K+," the selected ... [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - May 08 2013]

Entities: White House, Education, Teaching

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

LSE Enters the GMO Discussion

Very interesting! Cami Ryan linked to this Agri-Pulse bulletin on the new report entitled “ Feeding the Planet in a Warming World .” I just downloaded the report: © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. The prestigious London School of Economics ... [Published SeekerBlog - May 04 2013]

Entities: Biotechnology, Food Security, Information Technology And Innovation Foundation

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Enabling digital democracy [Gulf, The (Bahrain)]

When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake triggered minor tremors across Bahrain last month, the Gulf kingdom's interior ministry reacted instinctively through social media.Guidelines on 'How to act in case of tremors' were quickly posted on the ministry's official ... [Published Equities.com - May 02 2013]

Entities: Bahrain, Democracy, Oprah Winfrey Network OWN

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Obama to Nominate Thomas Wheeler to Head FCC

President Obama plans to nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission, White House officials said.Wheeler, managing director at Core Capital Partners, a venture-capital firm based in Washington, D.C., also has ... [Published HispanicBusiness.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Federal Communications Commission, Wheelwright, Gigi Sohn, Barack Obama

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Paul W. Taylor

is the editor-at-large of GOVERNING, Chief Content Officer for e.Republic, Inc. and senior advisor to the Center for Digital Government. Prior to joining the Center, Taylor served as deputy Washington state CIO and Chief of Staff of the state Information ... [Published Governing - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Information Technology And Innovation Foundation, Regal Entertainment Group, CIO, Chief of Staff

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Internet of things growing in homes and enterprise

The use of the so-called internet of things is growing in homes and could also expand in enterprise.This term is used generally to describe the use of appliances that connect to the internet, such as IP-accessible washing machines. For example, a cycle ... [Published Outsourcery - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Internet of Things, OECD, Cloud Computing, Information Technology And Innovation Foundation

Quotes

"What’s really hard is to do a corporate bill on a stand-alone basis when, at the moment, people see it as wrapped up in a larger tax reform package" Kleinbard said

Cook Defending Apple Puts Loophole-Closing Back on Agenda: Taxes [Published BusinessWeek - 23 hours ago]

...It is time for CEOs to stand up and say "yes, my company moves jobs to other nations and we will continue to do so until Congress puts in place a real national competitiveness strategy." This should include a more competitive corporate tax code, smarter regulations that don’t unduly hamper firms, a robust technology strategy and aggressive...

Assailing corporations is a poor competitiveness strategy [Published The Hill - May 20 2013]

...engaged in a massive conspiracy to advertise for U S STEM jobs that do not exist," Hoffman wrote in a blog post last month on the ITIC web site. "That's quite a conspiracy. I wonder if EPI thinks we faked the moon landing."

Tech, labor brandish dueling studies in U.S. immigration fight [Published Reuters - May 18 2013]

"They brought home about $300 billion," H David Rosenbloom, a member of the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, told MacNewsWorld, "and they used it to pay their executives higher salaries and to buy stock, and they didn't create a single job. In fact, they lost jobs."

Apple's Cook Heads to Washington to Talk Taxes [Published Mac News World - May 17 2013]

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LSE Enters the GMO Discussion [Published SeekerBlog - May 04 2013]
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Enabling digital democracy [Gulf, The (Bahrain)] [Published Equities.com - May 02 2013]
Obama to Nominate Thomas Wheeler to Head FCC [Published HispanicBusiness.com - May 01 2013]
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Blogs

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Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Perform... [Published TechCrunch - May 19 2013] Editor’s note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, “The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand.” Follow him on Twitter @iPolicy ...
Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Perform... [Published TechCrunch Europe - May 19 2013] Editor’s note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, “The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand.” Follow him on Twitter @iPolicy ...
LSE Enters the GMO Discussion [Published SeekerBlog - May 04 2013] Very interesting! Cami Ryan linked to this Agri-Pulse bulletin on the new report entitled “ Feeding the Planet in a Warming World .” I just downloaded the report: © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. The prestigious London School of Economics ...
Three charts that show the U.S. spends too litt... [Published Ezra Klein - Apr 09 2013] At his confirmation hearing this morning, Energy Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz told the Senate that the United States spends far too little on energy R&D. “We are underinvesting by a factor of three,” he said. Is that right? Many energy experts have, ...
Reducing waste of food: A key element in feedin... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - Apr 09 2013] !--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--> John Floros, Ph.D.ITIF Report: Feeding the Planet in a Warming WorldFeeding the Planet in a Warming World, a new report by The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and the London School of Economics ...

Audio/Video

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Innovation and Manufacturing [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Feb 14 2013]

Press Releases

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2012 'New Economy' Ranking Highlights Innovatio... [Published PR Newswire: Business Technology - Dec 11 2012]
Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advan... [Published GlobeNewswire: Acquisitions News - Dec 05 2012]
Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advan... [Published CisionWire - English - Dec 05 2012]