WASHINGTON -- U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today announced that one of America's leading thinkers on entrepreneurship, Carl J. Schramm, Ph.D., has been named chairman of the advisory committee of business and academic leaders that will seek ways to measure the effects of innovation on the economy.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Approximately 50 persons gathered in a plush conference room at the State Department on March 10. They were there for a meeting of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy ACIEP, a fairly new group that serves as an advisory body to the U.S. government. They...
Jan. 18--New initiatives for measuring innovation in the U.S. economy are recommended in Innovation Measurement report by Commerce Department advisory committee, available at www.innovationmetrics.gov. Among them: accounting for the effect of high-tech goods and services, measuring increase in productivity due to increased investments in innovation, and expanded data collection...
The recent recommendations made by the Commerce Department's Deemed Export Advisory Committee will have a "significant negative impact on U.S. technological leadership" and should not be adopted, according to a group of 12 large business associations. The coalition, led by the National Foreign Trade Council, said the committee's recommendations would...
The U.S. Department of Commerce DoC has named a chairman for a new RF committee formed to provide the Bush administration with advice and recommendations regarding new wireless technologies and how they relate to homeland security, national defense and other critical government needs (TelecomWeb news break,...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez has named Art Collins, chairman and CEO of Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) to serve on a new panel to understand better how U.S. innovation contributes to American economic prosperity and high living standards. Collins is part of an advisory committee that includes 15 business and...
American Owned AmericanTours International to Open Regional Office in China's Beijing BEIJING -- AmericanTours International's ATI CEO Ms. Noel Irwin Hentschel, as part of the U.S. Business Development Mission to China, and the U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez met the press today (13) at 2:30...
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. A bill (H.R. 5351) introduced by Rep. David Reichert (R-WA) would establish a Directorate of Emergency Management within the Department of Homeland Security DHS. The bill has been approved by the House Homeland Security Committee. However, it is still under consideration in the House...
John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., will be the featured speaker at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce's Fortune 500 Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 3 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Little Rock. Hofmeister also has held key positions at General Electric, Nortel and AlliedSignal...
By Staff NAM president John Engler has been appointed by Carlos Gutierrez, Commerce Secretary, to the Department of Commerce's new Advisory Committee on Deemed Export Controls. The advisory panel will develop recommendations for improving regulations...
'Profound' Security Concerns for Internet HERNDON, Va. -- Network Solutions today called on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee NSTAC to review the proposed .com registry agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN and VeriSign, Inc. Network Solutions asked NSTAC, which provides advice to...
In June, a House committee approved bipartisan legislation by Congressmen Brad Sherman, D-Calif., and John Shadegg, R-Ariz., to fund joint research by Americans and Israelis into alternative energy sources. "Cutting-edge research by top scientists from the United States and Israel could hold...
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security BIS last week said it was withdrawing a pair of proposed measures that could have strengthened the barriers against access to sensitive technology faced by foreign nationals who perform scientific research in the U.S. The bureau's May 31 announcement came...
The Commerce Department's long-embattled Advanced Technology Program ATP last year began implementing a "phasedown plan" under which around one-quarter of its employees have voluntarily left the program or given notice of their intent to do so, ATP officials disclosed this week. The phasedown, whose existence was made public...
News Advisory: Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller,DEA Administrator Karen Tandy, ATF Director Carl Truscott, and U.S.Marshals Service Director John Clark will testify before the SenateAppropriations Subcommittee on Justice, Commerce, Science, andRelated Agencies on Department of Justice Oversight today (April 5)at 2 p.m. EDT. The...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA, a division of the U.S. Government s Department of Commerce, is going to create a special advisory forum for dealing with the issues related to national radio spectrum. The new body, which will be called the Commerce Spectrum Management...
National Telecommunications and Information head Michael Gallagher announced the creation of the spectrum management advisory committee. The committee plans to advise the Commerce Department on key elements of President Bush's spectrum policy initiative for improving management of the nation's airwaves. "State-of-the-art...
burden of inculcating business skills in newly minted IT workers, those same CIOs and their companies must be willing to play an active role in influencing and guiding the education of their future IT staffs. John Sargent, senior technology policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Commerce, recently...
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