Workforce of the Future Conference: Have Americans Lost Their Mojo?

The question of the morning is whether Americans, as a whole, have lost the ability to innovate.

Panel moderator Michael Hirsh cited writings in the Atlantic and elsewhere arguing that despite pouring money into clean energy and despite the fact that innovation usually happens in a recession, that hasn’t seemed to happen in this current recession. Why is that? Is that what’s causing the economy to drag its feet?

The panelists respond. WaPo writer Steven Pearlstein and National Association of Manufacturers senior vice president/Manufacturing Institute president Emily DeRocco get rather into it at the bottom:

Martin Bailey, senior fellow at Brookings:
“I do not agree that the US is stagnant or lacking in innovation.

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