RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung'u, October 16, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Access to financial services is crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction, yet a large proportion of households in developing countries lack access to financial services. Brookings expert Mwangi Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, discuss the Kenyan experience with mobile phone banking and how this technology can expand the financial services frontier. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro and Jonathan Rothwell , July 06, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic
Moving beyond President Obama administration’s new lightbulb standards, Mark Muro and Jonathan Rothwell of the Metropolitan Policy Program note the need for broader policy interventions to shrink the carbon footprint of the built environment. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, June 29, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Following a narrow House vote on Friday to pass climate change legislation, President Obama called on the Senate this weekend to follow suit. Mark Muro urges an even greater investment in energy innovation to catalyze a radically cleaner future. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Heike Mayer, June 25, 2009, The Brookings Institution
This report shows how three metropolitan areas—Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise—became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university and offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of well-established high tech centers. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
Washington, DC
In the June 3 edition of the Scouting Report live web chat, Brookings policy expert Mark Muro and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash discussed how "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is more than just a cap-and-trade bill. The bill has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, May 26, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic
The climate change bill now winding its way through the House of Representatives has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. However, Mark Muro argues, funding the Department of Energy’s budget request for innovation would more immediately establish American alternative energy leadership. 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
Kristin M. Lord, February 20, 2009, The Christian Science Monitor
Mired in conflict, afflicted by joblessness, frustrated by unresponsive and oppressive governments, and flooded with images of woe, the world's 22 Arab nations have much to lament, writes Kristin Lord. Yet these societies are also making rapid, if insufficient, progress that Lord argues will determine the future of the region. 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
VIDEO
Mark Muro, February 04, 2009
Describing a proposed national network of regionally based Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes, Mark Muro highlights how these institutes would be aimed at creating jobs of the future and at transforming our metropolitan economies.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
James Duderstadt, Mark Muro, Gary Was, Andrea Sarzynski, Robert McGrath, Michael Corradini, Linda Katehi and Rick Shangraw, February 01, 2009, The Brookings Institution
America’s economic revitalization and future energy security compel the transformation of U.S. energy policy. To push innovation to the center of national reform, this Blueprint for American Prosperity report argues that the federal government should establish a national network of regionally-based energy discovery-innovation institutes (e-DIIs) to serve as the hubs of a decentralized, commercialization-oriented research network. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, January 09, 2009
9:00 AM to 10:30
Washington, DC
Advances and innovations in science and technology have been essential catalysts of growth for developing societies. Yet sub-Saharan African countries continue to lag behind in science, technology, and engineering developments and applications. On January 9, Dr. Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, gave a talk on "Science, Engineering and Economic Growth in Africa" at the National Academy of Sciences. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael Ferrantino, Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang, Falan Yinug, Ling Chen, Fengjie Qu and Haifeng Wang, May 01, 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 30, 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
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