American Competitiveness
Introduction
American Competitiveness, as I interpret it, includes three basic ideas:
1. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are the engine of US economic growth.
2. Continued economic growth depends, in part, upon a qualified, well-trained STEM workforce .
3. Innovation requires long-term, consistent investment in educational institutions, human capital, and technological infrastructure.
4. Federal, state, local, and private funding of basic and applied research, as well as development, are needed.
5. Any grand strategy for the United States of America will need to place particular importance on American science and partnerships across the world.
6. True American competitiveness will not occur while there is discrimination against women and minorities, poverty, and an artificial division between science and faith successfully created, manipulated, and perpetuated by segments of society whose interests are served in keeping the body politic divided.
7. No single discipline will have all the answers - coordinated effort from business management, law, the social sciences (economics, political science, psychology) the natural sciences, computer science, and engineering, education, the humanities (science and technology studies, history) medicine, human resources, operations research, systems analysis, and many other fields will need to be synthesized if the project is to have a chance of success.