Tapping America’s Potential: The Education for Innovation Initiative

Speaking for fifteen major business organizations such as the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Business-Higher Education Forum, the Minority Business Roundtable and the National Defense Industrial Association, this report states that the United States must make a major effort to educate more scientists and engineers or risk falling behind other nations which are making stronger efforts to educate their people. While acknowledging the importance of primary and secondary education, the report calls for additional sustained effort at the college and university level to increase the number of baccalaureate-level citizens prepared to create and innovate. Read the report