Winning the future: Obama's innovative strategy

If you ask Obama, what are the three most important factors for a country to win the future? He will tell you: innovation, innovation, innovation!

The United States is the world's most innovative power of the country, from the American Revival and Reinvestment Act to the 2009 American innovation Strategy: promoting sustainable growth and high quality employment, and to the 2011 American Innovation Strategy: ensuring our economic growth and prosperity, and the State of the Union address of Obama's years, Can find that http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10075.html "> The United States Government has always been innovative as the core to enhance national competitiveness."

What is the driving force for a country to climb to the top of the value chain? That's just a coat, a well-known noun, what direction to innovate, how to support innovation? Only by making innovation the first choice of enterprise subconscious, can we say that we have the innovation condition. To see how Obama can promote innovation may give us some inspiration.

From the innovative strategy unveiled by the White House in 2011, we can broadly see Obama's vision of an innovative strategy. The strategy proposes a number of new initiatives, including: the development of wireless networks, the United States in the next 5 years to enable high-speed wireless network access rate of 98%, reform of the patent approval system, improve the efficiency of approval, the average approval time from 35 months to 20 months, the development of clean energy, By 2035, the proportion of clean energy generation to total national power generation was raised to 80%, and the launch of the American Partnership program to help small and medium-sized enterprises to start businesses and boost employment. As can be seen from these plans, Obama's innovative strategy and information technology, institutional reform, energy revolution, small and medium-sized enterprises are highly correlated.

In addition, Obama has two ambitious plans: one is to create a national network of manufacturing innovation to enhance the U.S. research and development capacity, and second, strengthen education.

In the past 40 years, America's share of capital in physics, mathematics and engineering has been falling from 0.25% to 0.13% per cent. In response, Mr Obama set up 18.3 billion dollars for research and development in the 2009 recovery bill, and plans to spend 3% of GDP later on research and development, even more than at the height of the space race. Obama's investment in research and development remains as high as $140.8 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, which has increased 1 time times the budget for the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy Science office.

More than that, Mr Obama is poised to forge a national innovation network for manufacturing. The U.S. manufacturing industry is actually more innovative than any other industry, with research and development accounting for half of U.S. research and development, and Mr Obama is poised to continue to strengthen that advantage and build a future-leading foundation for a "remanufacturing" strategy. He announced the creation of 15 innovation centers in the United States, focusing on emerging technologies-covering areas ranging from 3D printing to genome photos.

The emphasis on education is another bright spot in Obama's innovative strategy.

Education is the cornerstone of innovation and the "element behind innovation" in Obama's mouth. "Maintaining leadership in research and technology is critical to America's success," Obama said in his 2011 State of the Union address. If we want to embrace the future, if we want innovation to create jobs in America rather than overseas, then we have to win the race to educate our children. ”

Since the 1970s, U.S. education spending has accounted for more than 7% of GNP. Even in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Mr Obama has perfected the education-style of his former presidents. Mr Obama plans to make the world's highest proportion of Americans with undergraduate degrees by 2020, and grants 850 million of dollars to encourage States to implement reforms such as teaching standards and assessment standards. Obama also attaches special importance to science and technology teaching, and repeatedly in the fiscal year budget to strengthen science and technology education in the special appropriation, only 2011 years

The budget has invested as much as $3.7 billion in "Physics and Engineering (STEM)" Education, with $1 billion in STEM education for primary and secondary school students.

The "Top of the Competition" program, launched by Obama in 2009, has provided new impetus to American basic education, Race. As we all know, American universities are the best in the world, but their secondary schools are often criticized for losing to China in international competitions. To encourage and stimulate state education reform and create a good environment for innovation, and to improve student performance, Obama launched the program, set up a whopping 4.35 billion dollars "competition to the top fund." Mr Obama hopes the move will enable American students to excel in the international rankings of math and science scores over the next 10 years.

We also need to pay special attention to an immigration bill for international students. This is definitely not good news for countries that export a large number of foreign students to the US. This bill is the "American Business Visa Act 2.0" (Startup 2.0 Act). One important element of the bill is the increased access to employment visas for students majoring in science, technology, engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This is obviously a scramble for high-end talent!

The Center for International Economic and Technical cooperation, Ministry of Industry and Information technology Wu Zhengbao

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