“Not long ago, America’s global leadership in technology innovation was taken as a given,” writes Stephen Ezell in the fall issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Those days are over. In the past decade, America’s competitors have caught up and, in many cases, passed the U.S. Ezell suggests one culprit: all but alone among the world’s top economies, the U.S. does not have a national innovation policy. Ezell makes the case for a comprehensive innovation strategy, seeing in the current economic crisis an opportunity to enshrine innovation as the engine of renewed economic growth.
