{"58986":{"#nid":"58986","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Breznitz Testifies on Government\u0027s Role in Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nIn invited testimony March 24th before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee\u0027s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, Dan Breznitz offered a globally informed perspective on the federal government\u0027s role in supporting innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz, Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Public Policy, testified at the request of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation hearing entitled \u003Cem\u003ESupporting Innovation in the 21st Century Economy.\u003C\/em\u003E A theme of the hearing was the need for a comprehensive federal strategy to create an environment that is conducive to innovation in the United States. According to the witnesses, a comprehensive innovation strategy would include components such as a tax policy amenable to attracting capital, a more efficient process to transition research to commercialization and immigration policies that attract the best and the brightest and keep them in the United States.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBreznitz outlined the challenges associated with government efforts to enable innovation and the lessons the U.S. might take from other countries.  He discussed three roles that the government has to play in innovation policy: public financing of private innovation; public production of innovation (i.e. financing of industrial research at nonprofit institutions); and facilitation of professional, interinstitutional networks. He also suggested that federal-state partnerships could stimulate states to compete in the development of different, experimental and creative policies for innovation and encourage regional collaboration.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther testimony during the hearing was presented by Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark Kamlet, Provost at Carnegie Mellon University; Rob Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; and Paul Holland, General Partner at Foundation Capital.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA PDF of Breznitz remarks and a webcast of the hearing with complete witness testimony is available at the link below\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn invited testimony March 24th before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee\u0027s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, Dan Breznitz offered a globally informed perspective on the federal government\u0027s role in supporting innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"INTA Professor U.S. to think outside conventioinal constraint"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-04-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:55","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"58987":{"id":"58987","type":"image","title":"Dr. Dan Breznitz","body":null,"created":"1449176204","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:44","changed":"1475894515","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:55","alt":"Dr. Dan Breznitz","file":{"fid":"190798","name":"tbh94936.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbh94936_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbh94936_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30213,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tbh94936_0.jpg?itok=gPgX0b0b"}}},"media_ids":["58987"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Public Policy"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/","title":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/listing.php?uID=15","title":"Danny Brezntiz"},{"url":"http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/files\/wysiwyg\/file\/Breznitz%20Testimony%20Congress%203-24-10.pdf","title":"Download PDF of Breznitz remarks"},{"url":"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/","title":"Committee on Science, Space, and Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1988","name":"Breznitz"},{"id":"346","name":"congress"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"1881","name":"testimony"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}