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Covid-19 is highlighting the Promise and Pitfalls of the Digital Transformation
Deborah Wince-Smith Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, manufacturing enterprises, service firms, laboratories, schools and households across...

The GFCC
Mar 16, 20214 min read


Will hydrogen power a net-zero future?
*Hydrogen’s economic potential will impact competitiveness strategies across the globe. The GFCC interviewed Distinguished Fellow Prof....

The GFCC
Mar 11, 20216 min read


Sustainability is the new imperative of innovation
An interview with GFCC President Deborah L. Wince-Smith. Interview first published in Portuguese on InforMEI , Brazil. As one of the most...

The GFCC
Jan 29, 20218 min read


Quantum computers: a turning point for science, business, and privacy
Simone Melo Quantum computers have a lot of power. They can revolutionize science, transform medicine, help to find a cure for diseases...

The GFCC
Jan 15, 20214 min read


Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and COVID-19- Interview with Dr. Ian Walden
Simone Melo Connected home gadgets predicting human behavior, driverless cars, and robots cleaning the house might seem a futurist...

The GFCC
Dec 1, 20206 min read


Economic diversification is vital to Greece COVID-19 recovery
Greece emerged as an outlier in the European fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The government responded swiftly and managed the...

The GFCC
Sep 4, 20204 min read


How COVID-19 Disrupted the World and Challenged Society
by Deborah Wince-Smith (*) Photo by Nathaniel Yeo on Unsplash Nations around the world are grappling with a challenge unprecedented in...

The GFCC
Jun 18, 20203 min read


Sustainability, Innovation, Competitiveness — An Interview with Bill Bohnett
Bill Bohnett at the 2019 GFCC Global Innovation Summit in Nur-Sultan, KZ GFCC sat down with Bill Bohnett, a leader in sustainability and...

The GFCC
Dec 12, 20193 min read


Financial Innovation from the Favelas — The Transformative Power of Bottom-Up Innovation
By Marcelo de Felippes It is impossible to discuss technological innovations without adopting a forward looking mindset; the term...

The GFCC
Oct 30, 20193 min read
Readiness for Innovation:A Reflection on the GFCC University and Research Leadership Forum Reports, Optimizing Innovation Alliances and Leveraging Extreme Innovation.
By Ken Sloan The two recent GFCC reports, Optimizing Innovation Alliances and Leveraging Extreme Innovation, make important contributions...

The GFCC
Sep 26, 20195 min read


A New Era of Manufacturing
By Roberto Alvarez The globalization of manufacturing that took place from the ’90s to the early 2000’s saw the manufacturing industry...

The GFCC
May 1, 20198 min read


A Guide to Accelerating Innovation
By Dr. Sethuraman (Panch) Panchanathan This article is a reproduction of an article originally posted here . At #GIS2018 , speaking on a...

The GFCC
Mar 11, 20193 min read


The New Age of Illumination
Disruption Comes to the Innovation Landscape Humanity stands in the midst of the greatest revolutions in science and technology. A new...

The GFCC
Nov 19, 20186 min read


Brazil's National Confederation of Industry Hosts Inova Global Program
Brazil’s National Confederation of Industry (CNI) continues to promote, deepen and enhance its “Inova Global” program, aimed at boosting...

The GFCC
Aug 3, 20181 min read


In Looking to the Future, EXC Pursues a Model of Innovation and Shared Leadership
This blog post is a Q&A with Santiago Murtagh, who serves as President of several organizations operating under the EXC umbrella that are...

The GFCC
Oct 27, 20175 min read


Four Technologies that Can Sharpen U.S. Competitiveness
By Keoki Jackson, CTO, Lockheed Martin — As an undergraduate at MIT studying aeronautics and astronautics, I little expected that I would...

The GFCC
Oct 2, 20175 min read


Three Ways the U.S. Can Create Competitiveness and Opportunity
By Bill Bates — I live and work in Washington, DC for Council on Competitiveness . In my spare time I run marathons and long distance...

The GFCC
Sep 15, 20175 min read


Make North America Competitive Again: Modernize NAFTA Now!
By Kathryn Hauser — As negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico wrap up the second round of talks to update and renegotiate...

The GFCC
Sep 7, 20174 min read


How Digital Technologies Revolutionize Global Supply Chains
By Johan Aurik — And so from Berlin to Seoul. After a very productive and insightful session looking into how the digital revolution is...

The GFCC
Aug 23, 20174 min read


Planning and Partnering for Innovation Must Include the Liberal Arts
By Jesse Schatz — The Liberal Arts College (LAC) is, “Antiquated, belated, arrested, [and] starved…the college will disappear, in fact,...

The GFCC
Aug 16, 201711 min read
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