PAST EVENT
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
8:15 AM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC
The way consumers pay for products and services is dramatically changing, with cash and checks now accounting for less than half of all transactions and falling fast. What payment technologies lie ahead and how will they change the way our economy works? Brookings’s Initiative on Business and Public Policy held an event with some of America’s leading experts—including Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department David H. McCormick and American Express CEO Ken Chenault—on the evolution of electronic payments. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Darrell M. West, August 26, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Darrell West assesses the nature of American state and federal electronic government in 2008 by examining whether e-government effectively capitalizes on the interactive features available on the Internet to improve service delivery and public outreach. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Darrell M. West, August 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Few developments have had broader consequences for the public sector than the introduction of the Internet and digital technology. In this Brookings report, Darrell West assesses the current conditions of electronic government around the world and offers practical suggestions for improving the delivery of information and services over the Internet. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Dorothy Robyn, July 2008, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper
Our nation’s air traffic control system, run by the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has not kept up with the explosive growth in air travel. In as discussion paper for the Hamilton Project, Dorothy Robyn proposes to measures to increase air traffic effeciency and safety. Read More
VIDEO
July 25, 2008
The state of the nation’s infrastructure is generating rising public attention, prompted by daily travel frustrations, high-profile catastrophes, urgent calls to address climate change and energy security, and concerns about productivity and economic growth. The Hamilton Project hosted a public forum on the need for a national strategy that promotes infrastructure as a central component of long-term, broadly shared growth.
PAST EVENT
Friday, July 25, 2008
8:45 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC
The state of the nation’s infrastructure is generating rising public attention, prompted by daily travel frustrations, high-profile catastrophes, urgent calls to address climate change and energy security, and concerns about productivity and economic growth. The Hamilton Project released six new policy papers and hosted a public forum on the need for a national strategy that promotes infrastructure as a central component of long-term, broadly shared growth. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Washington, DC
Brookings and Google.org hosted a conference on electric vehicles, their potential to reduce U.S. oil dependence and the role of federal policy in promoting this technology. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Edmund Amann, May 2008, The Brookings Institution
In this paper, Edmund Amann examines the role of technology, innovation, and public policy in the development of some of Brazil’s largest and most internationalized firms. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Peter W. Singer, May 02, 2008, The Brookings Institution
As the movie Iron Man debuts in theaters, Peter Singer writes that the superhuman strengths enabled to the star character, through use of a suit, are "no mere fiction." Instead, Singer details how this vision of technology overcoming the weaknesses of the human body has led the Pentagon to invest billions of dollars into creating a military of supersoldiers. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael Ferrantino, Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, Falan Yinug, Ling Chen, Fengjie Qu and Haifeng Wang, Spring 2008, Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy Working Paper Series
The Brookings-Tsinghua Center hosted a roundtable on September 6, 2007 titled “China’s Economic Policies” featuring top scholars and experts from U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). This topic is a point of interest in U.S.-China relations. Participants in that roundtable will be featured in a joint research working paper series between USITC, school of public policy and management at Tsinghua University and Institute of International Economics at NDRC of China. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kristin M. Lord, April 2008, The Brookings Institution
"Arab nations share a history of remarkable intellectual and scientific achievement,” writes Kristin Lord, “yet as a group, these 22 countries lag behind other regions—and their own potential—in educational achievement, scientific advances, and economic growth.” Drawing on the insights of a distinguished panel of experts from the Arab world, Lord assesses what has happened in the five years since the UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report 2003. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On April 23, a slate of panelists, including researchers, media representatives, and advocates discussed the role of government and the private sector in making media a positive force in the lives of young people. Video clips from several positive media campaigns designed to improve the health and well-being of the nation’s youth were presented. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds and Andrew Reamer, April 2008, The Brookings Institution
Regional industry clusters—geographic concentrations of interconnected firms and supporting organizations—represent a potent source of productivity at a moment of national vulnerability to global economic competition. For that reason, Karen Mills, Elisabeth Reynolds and Andrew Reamer say the federal government should establish an industry clusters program to stimulate the collaborative interactions of firms and supporting organizations in regional economies to produce more commercial innovation and higherwage employment. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, April 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To respond to America’s slipping leadership in commercial innovation the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By realigning and augmenting the nation’s diffuse present efforts the new entity would help create better jobs in America, not just for highly educated “knowledge workers” but for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low-tech services.” Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Washington, DC
The authors of a new report, “Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation" held a forum at the National Press Club in Washington DC to respond to America's slipping leadership in commercial innovation and urge the federal government to establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. Read More