RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009, Yale Environment 360
Mark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy. They advocate creating regional energy partnerships—or e-DIIs—to accelerate the development of reasonably priced alternative energy technologies and bring them to the marketplace. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley , April 20, 2009, The New York Times
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, in this letter to the editor of the New York Times, argue that the fundamental geographic unit of the 21st century is the metropolitan area and that new forms of governance must reflect this shift. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz, Mark Muro and Jennifer Bradley, March 11, 2009, Democracy Journal
U.S. metropolitan areas are the under-recognized engines of America’s economy, and the nation must adjust its federal system—and American federalism—to support them so they can lead us back to prosperity, write Bruce Katz, Mark Muro, and Jennifer Bradley in a major framing essay for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, March 10, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic
Some say America needs to deploy existing green technology quickly while others say the nation needs to stress new scientific breakthroughs. Mark Muro says both camps are right, and that MPP’s proposal for the federal government to create a series of energy discovery-innovation institutes (e-DIIs) suggests a way to make progress on both counts. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert E. Lang and Mark Muro, February 25, 2009, The Las Vegas Sun
President Obama might not have intended to knock Las Vegas when he admonished travel on the taxpayer’s dime, but Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman sure took it that way when he branded the comment “outrageous.” Mark Muro and Robert Lang write that we shouldn’t push austerity so hard that it is ultimately self-defeating. Sometimes junkets provide the truest form of economic stimulus. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, February 09, 2009
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
With new national leadership committed to investing in clean energy technology, now is the time to explore new research paradigms in America. At this event, the Blueprint for American Prosperity released a new report that examines the role of expanded energy research in reinvigorating America’s metropolitan economies, tackling security challenges and responding to global climate change. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Joshua M. Epstein, November 26, 2008, National Institutes of Health
Joshua Epstein gave a presentation on why model social behavior during a NIH conference, which explored the field of social behavior modeling, identifying opportunities, challenges, and gaps in our collective knowledge. Participants explored the scope and direction of the field through presentations and facilitated discussion. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, July 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
The Olympic development boom in China showcases the results of years of rapid growth in China’s economy and mirrors that of many other emerging markets. One of the Olympic lessons for the U.S. should be to reverse its ailing infrastructure trend and begin investing for the long-term to stay competitive, according to Lael Brainard. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H. Peyton Young, July 13, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Peyton Young addresses his recent game theory and agent-based modeling work in the Presidential Address to the World Congress of the Game Theory Society at Northwestern University. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jennifer Bradley, June 13, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To unleash greater local and national prosperity, U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This summary outlines a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, Bruce Katz, Sarah Rahman and David Warren, June 12, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To unleash greater local and national prosperity U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This report calls for a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston, June 09, 2008, washingtonpost.com
Clifford Winston joins Shankar Vedantam of the Washington Post to discuss human behavior and worker burnout on washingtonpost.com Department of Human Behavior online chat. 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds and Andrew Reamer, April 22, 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