Sentences with phrase «of national competitiveness»

He was chair of the National Competitiveness Committee for the National Venture Capital Association, was selected by Obama to represent the United States at the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 focusing on global education issues, and has funded several education initiatives.

«The CTR - IN is providing unique opportunities for junior faculty at our partner institutions to develop their clinical and translational research programs to the level of national competitiveness,» said Carl Reiber, UNLV senior vice provost, who was instrumental in the development of the program.

That result will be to force the British parliament into accepting rules made elsewhere without any input from the United Kingdom or to abandon the goal of national competitiveness.

Not exact matches

Qualcomm's appeal tapped into gathering concern among some congressional Republicans and the Trump administration about U.S. national security and competitiveness with China, especially in advanced technologies — sentiment that already was fueling an effort to expand the power of CFIUS.

We scored all 50 states on 43 measures of competitiveness developed with input from business groups including the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on Ccompetitiveness developed with input from business groups including the National Association of Manufacturers and the Council on CompetitivenessCompetitiveness.

The Forum, a group of corporate CEOs and university presidents, identified and acted on issues of national concern to the business and academic communities such as international competitiveness, technological innovation, and education and training.

«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

By galvanizing the leadership of the women's business community, Roadmap 2020 will drive change on the national and grassroots level, and dramatically sharpen the nation's competitiveness.

«Perennial rail service challenges have impacted our competitiveness, our national supply chain's long - term economic sustainability and Canada's global reputation as a trading nation,» the company wrote in its briefing to the committee reviewing Bill C - 49, the government's modernization of the Transportation Act.

ECOTROPHELIA has the ambition to promote entrepreneurship and competitiveness within the European food industry by implementing a training network of excellence in food innovation and organizing National and European food innovation competitions «The Student Food Innovation Awards» a real eye - opener for the food industry.

The [NSLP] was developed out of that, so in many ways hunger and nutrition — in addition to being an education issue, and an economic competitiveness issue — is also a national security issue.

National Union of Teachers head of education, John Bangs, argues that the argument over competitiveness is anon - issue.

Appealing, for example, to those Senators who, while eager to withdraw from Afghanistan and avoid future such «entanglements,» nonetheless remain anxious about the future of American leadership and economic competitiveness, Kerry argued that «deploying diplomats today [to protect the national interest] is much cheaper than deploying troops tomorrow.»

«A sustained focus on health and education will build the capacity of the national workforce, bolstering economy - wide competitiveness and facilitating economic diversification beyond the extractive industries,» the World Bank said.

Tensions between countries, competitiveness, and national pride will make the option of pursuing hypersonic missiles attractive, although in the long term, that could be deleterious to a peaceful international environment.

Cooperation at national level with China in the development of new technologies, for example, could affect future industrial competitiveness across the EU.

These, he said, include the introduction of an e-business registration system, a paperless port clearance system, a digital addressing system, a mobile interoperability system, and a national identification card system, all of which are designed to formalise the Ghanaian economy, reduce the cost of doing business, and facilitate interaction between businesses and their clients, particularly in a technology - driven era, where connectivity through digital services is an important element in achieving competitiveness.

International election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, who were invited to observe and report on the 2004 national elections, expressed criticism of the U.S. congressional redistricting process and made a recommendation that the procedures be reviewed to ensure genuine competitiveness of Congressional election contests.

«Understandably, the goal of national global competitiveness has given considerable impetus to the drive to raise educational standards,» it states.

The Republican National Committee is going up on television with ads in support of New York state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in his special election bid in the state's 20th district, an early sign that newly elected chairman Michael Steele plans to wade into downballot races to reassert the party's competitiveness across the country and in the northeast in particular.

The London mayor also asked the prime minister about the state of the negotiations on restricting in - work benefits, asserting the role of national parliaments, giving Britain an opt - out from the EU's commitment to ever - closer union and promoting competitiveness.

There are many strategic areas that my executive team and I will need to address including the protection and promotion of Rugby, its values, spirit and ethos, the increase of local participation in Greater Accra, ensuring player welfare best practice, maximising the value of all GARA properties, increasing sustainability and competitiveness of Greater Accra Rugby, optimising national participation and providing strong and effective leadership.

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Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

AAAS Programs Work in Middle East to Strengthen Science Capacity Saudi Arabia's national science program and AAAS» Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) have expanded their five - year partnership with a new agreement to analyze the impact of grants made under the country's strategic science plan.

Saudi Arabia's national science program and AAAS» Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) have expanded their five - year partnership with a new agreement to analyze the impact of grants made under the country's strategic science plan.

Like the bipartisan group of Members of Congress who support the Golden Goose Award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

In fact, Professor David Martínez argues that these and other issues are among the goals of a research project requested to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in the last call for national projects that are still pending resolution.

The study, published recently in the online version of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out at the UAB, with collaboration from Radboud University Medical Center (the Netherlands), University of Colorado (USA) and Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and was funded principally by Fundació La Marató, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the International Foundation for Research in Paraplegia.

This work is part of the DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP), which aims to maximize the benefits of exascale — future supercomputers that will be 50 times faster than our nation's most powerful system today — for U.S. economic competitiveness, national security and scientific discovery.

Like the bipartisan group of members of Congress who support the award, the founding organizations believe that federally funded basic scientific research is the cornerstone of American innovation and essential to our economic growth, health, global competitiveness, and national security.

For the first time Italy now has a national research plan, which includes a series of strategic programmes to better manage resources and increase competitiveness in basic and applied research.

Both bills would require NSF officials to explain why every grant they make is «in the national interest,» using seven criteria that range from «increased economic competitiveness» to «promotion of the progress of science.»

D.M.: Basic research level academics are facing great challenges, much of it related to funding, but also the national commitment to basic research and the competitiveness of U.S. research globally.

The bill — which is officially known as the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (S. 3084)-- would promote research, innovation, and science education at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Commerce, and across federal agencies.

So Suresh's official response to the attack on his cherished OneNSF initiatives is predictably bland: «We appreciate the strong bipartisan support for the National Science Foundation and recognition of its importance to our national economy and global competitNational Science Foundation and recognition of its importance to our national economy and global competitnational economy and global competitiveness.

The laggards are the National Research Council (CSIC) and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

To preserve our national security interests and foster innovation and competitiveness, we must sustain our preeminence in space, launching more science missions, guaranteeing unfettered access, and maintaining a source of high - value American jobs.»

Trying to recover a U.S. lead As part of a new manufacturing initiative to boost U.S. competitiveness through the clean energy sector, the Department of Energy launched a state - of - the - art carbon fiber technology facility earlier this year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

With the end of the cold war, national defense has given way to international competitiveness as the theme for federal support of research.

The bill also protects funding for critical national and regional waterways — which handle commerce valued at more than $ 2 trillion annually — through the Army Corps of Engineers, and programs that encourage energy independence and economic competitiveness.

America COMPETES Act or America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act - Division A: Commerce and Science - American Innovation and Competitiveness Act - Title I: Office of Science and Technology Policy; Government - Wide Science -(Sec. 1101) Directs the President to: (1) convene a National Science and Technology Summit to examine the health and direction of the United States» science, technology, engineering, and mathematics enterprises; and (2) issue a report on Summit results.

He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Universities, the National Academy of Engineering Council, as Vice-Chairman of the Council on Competitiveness, and on the Board of Directors of KCET, the Los Angeles public television station.

NSF EPSCoR -LRB-(Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) Track 1 awards are intended to improve the research competitiveness of jurisdictions by improving their academic research infrastructure in areas of science and engineering supported by the National Science Foundation and critical to the particular jurisdiction's science and technology initiative or plan.

The current chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, Cruz says NASA's human space exploration program is a national priority that deserves congressional support.

Senators Gardner and Peters were recognized for their bipartisan work on the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA), legislation that reauthorizes activities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), STEM education programs, and seeks to reduce the administrative burden associated with federal grants.

With this community input in mind, the goal of the American Competitiveness in Chemistry - Fellowship program is to support the training of beginning, independent chemical scientists who are proficient at research that straddles the academic - industrial - national laboratory interfaces and at developing untapped pools of scientific talent that exist in this country.

Some supporters argue a common set of rigorous national standards will transform American education, prepare students for college and careers, and allow our nation to maintain international competitiveness.

In addition, in some nations education goals have focused very narrowly on the development of skills that are presumed to contribute to national economic competitiveness, the formation of national identity, and local relevance, without sufficient attention to the development of the skills that contribute to effective citizenship and global citizenship.

National competitiveness is all about efficient use of resources, so this instance of gender inequality directly affects a country's performance.