Tim Brundle, director of innovation at the University of Ulster, said his institution worked closely with Invest NI.

BBC: Enterprise Committee

The Patent Office, the institution right at the center of protecting and promoting innovation, now receives more than 80 percent of patent applications electronically.

WHITEHOUSE: "Doing What Works" Transcript

Rob Atkinson is founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

FORBES: Strengthening U.S. Clean Energy Competitiveness

These will each be responsible for developing a quality programme at their institution for education, research, innovation and the commercialization of new products involving converging technologies and the basic sciences associated with these technologies.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

In June of 2010, the Breakthrough Institute, Brookings Institution, and Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (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.

FORBES: A Victory For Advocates Of U.S. Clean Energy Competitiveness