Another day, another competitiveness summit

Manufacturing & Technology News, July 15, 2008

The federal government's "National Science and Technology Summit" is scheduled to take place on August 18-19 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The summit, the latest in what has become a countless series of federally sponsored, cross-country competitiveness meetings that have been held for the past six years, is sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

This one includes a keynote speech by Brian Halla, chairman and CEO of National Semiconductor, who said at a Washington, D.C.-area conference in 2005: "There's a gold rush taking place in China. It's a major opportunity, and it's a major threat if we blow it. And we are blowing it--big time. The Great American Dream appears to be moving to Shanghai."

> The August event was mandated by Congress in the 2007 America COMPETES Act and will "focus on assessing the status of consensus policy recommendations to strengthen long-term U.S. economic competitiveness through science and technology," says OSTP. To look at the list of speakers or to register, set your browser to http://www.ornl.gov/sci/natlscitechsummit.>

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