Rob Atkinson is founder and President of the InformationTechnology and InnovationFoundation and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
Last year, the InformationTechnology and InnovationFoundation updated a comprehensive study that ranked the top 44 industrialized nations in what they call innovative competitiveness.
In June of 2010, the Breakthrough Institute, Brookings Institution, and InformationTechnology and InnovationFoundation (ITIF) released a report calling on Congress to use the America COMPETES reauthorization as an opportunity to strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the rapidly growing and critically important clean energy technology sector.
An authoritative report by the InformationTechnology and InnovationFoundation (ITIF) shows that the United States has fallen to 6th out of 40 developed nations in innovation capacity and last out of the 40 in making the investments necessary to be innovative and competitive in the future.