Brookings: Topics - Technology and Development

Foreign Policy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:32 GMT

The U.S. and the international community face great challenges in the 21st century—globalization offers more freedom and prosperity, but also new threats to our security. The Foreign Policy Studies scholars and research help policymakers and the public address these crucial issues.

Expanding the Financial Services Frontier: Lessons From Mobile Phone Banking in Kenya

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Access to financial services is crucial to economic growth and poverty reduction, yet a large proportion of households in developing countries lack access to financial services. Brookings expert Mwangi Kimenyi and Njuguna S. Ndung’u, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, discuss the Kenyan experience with mobile phone banking and how this technology can expand the financial services frontier.

Energy Efficiency: Better Lightbulbs and Beyond

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Moving beyond President Obama administration’s new lightbulb standards, Mark Muro and Jonathan Rothwell of the Metropolitan Policy Program note the need for broader policy interventions to shrink the carbon footprint of the built environment.

Next on Climate: Improve Waxman-Markey Innovation Provisions in Senate

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Following a narrow House vote on Friday to pass climate change legislation, President Obama called on the Senate this weekend to follow suit. Mark Muro urges an even greater investment in energy innovation to catalyze a radically cleaner future.

Bootstrapping High-Tech: Evidence from Three Emerging High Technology Metropolitan Areas

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This report shows how three metropolitan areas—Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise—became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university and offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of well-established high tech centers.

The Scouting Report: Clean Energy Innovation

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:30:00 GMT

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June 03, 2009, 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM

In the June 3 edition of the Scouting Report live web chat, Brookings policy expert Mark Muro and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash discussed how "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is more than just a cap-and-trade bill. The bill has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment.

Waxman-Markey: What About Innovation?

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The climate change bill now winding its way through the House of Representatives has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. However, Mark Muro argues, funding the Department of Energy’s budget request for innovation would more immediately establish American alternative energy leadership.

Federal Energy R&D: Do It All - But Differently

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Some say America needs to deploy existing green technology quickly while others say the nation needs to stress new scientific breakthroughs. Mark Muro says both camps are right, and that MPP’s proposal for the federal government to create a series of energy discovery-innovation institutes (e-DIIs) suggests a way to make progress on both counts.

The Arab World's (Uneven) Progress

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mired in conflict, afflicted by joblessness, frustrated by unresponsive and oppressive governments, and flooded with images of woe, the world's 22 Arab nations have much to lament, writes Kristin Lord. Yet these societies are also making rapid, if insufficient, progress that Lord argues will determine the future of the region.

New Paradigms in Energy Research

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT

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February 09, 2009, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

With new national leadership committed to investing in clean energy technology, now is the time to explore new research paradigms in America. At this event, the Blueprint for American Prosperity released a new report that examines the role of expanded energy research in reinvigorating America’s metropolitan economies, tackling security challenges and responding to global climate change.

Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes and the American Economy

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:53:06 GMT

Describing a proposed national network of regionally based Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes, Mark Muro highlights how these institutes would be aimed at creating jobs of the future and at transforming our metropolitan economies.

Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes: A Step toward America's Energy Sustainability

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

America’s economic revitalization and future energy security compel the transformation of U.S. energy policy. To push innovation to the center of national reform, this Blueprint for American Prosperity report argues that the federal government should establish a national network of regionally-based energy discovery-innovation institutes (e-DIIs) to serve as the hubs of a decentralized, commercialization-oriented research network.

Science, Engineering and Economic Growth in Africa: Development Cooperation Challenges and Opportunities

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:00:00 GMT

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January 09, 2009, 9:00 AM to 10:30

Advances and innovations in science and technology have been essential catalysts of growth for developing societies. Yet sub-Saharan African countries continue to lag behind in science, technology, and engineering developments and applications. On January 9, Dr. Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, gave a talk on "Science, Engineering and Economic Growth in Africa" at the National Academy of Sciences.

Classification and Statistical Reconciliation of Trade in Advanced Technology Products: The Case of China and the United States

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Brookings-Tsinghua Center hosted a roundtable on September 6, 2007 titled “China’s Economic Policies” featuring top scholars and experts from U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). This topic is a point of interest in U.S.-China relations. Participants in that roundtable will be featured in a joint research working paper series between USITC, school of public policy and management at Tsinghua University and Institute of International Economics at NDRC of China.

Building a Knowledge Society in the Arab World

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"Arab nations share a history of remarkable intellectual and scientific achievement,” writes Kristin Lord, “yet as a group, these 22 countries lag behind other regions—and their own potential—in educational achievement, scientific advances, and economic growth.” Drawing on the insights of a distinguished panel of experts from the Arab world, Lord assesses what has happened in the five years since the UNDP’s Arab Human Development Report 2003.

America’s Innovation Challenge: Innovation Policy and Regional Industry Clusters

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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April 22, 2008, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

The authors of a new report, “Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation" held a forum at the National Press Club in Washington DC to respond to America's slipping leadership in commercial innovation and urge the federal government to establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities.

Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

To respond to America’s slipping leadership in commercial innovation the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By realigning and augmenting the nation’s diffuse present efforts the new entity would help create better jobs in America, not just for highly educated “knowledge workers” but for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low-tech services.”

Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Regional industry clusters—geographic concentrations of interconnected firms and supporting organizations—represent a potent source of productivity at a moment of national vulnerability to global economic competition. For that reason, Karen Mills, Elisabeth Reynolds and Andrew Reamer say the federal government should establish an industry clusters program to stimulate the collaborative interactions of firms and supporting organizations in regional economies to produce more commercial innovation and higherwage employment.

Mobilizing Talent for Global Development

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:00:00 GMT

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April 02, 2008, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Global Economy and Development at Brookings hosted the release of a new publication, The International Mobility of Talent Types, Causes, and Development Impact Track (Oxford University Press, 2008), in coordination with the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University.

An Antitrust Analysis of Google's Proposed Acquisition of DoubleClick

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

U.S. Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:00:00 GMT

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April 28, 2006, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

While globalization has brought promise to many, it also presents many new challenges for the American workforce. In April 2006, the Brookings Institution launched the Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness to foster debate and discussion on the critical competitiveness issues facing America’s economy and to explore the various inputs—education, research and development, innovation and more—that are required to maintain the country’s leading competitive edge.

Offshoring and Privacy: Consumer Data in the Global Economy

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:00:00 GMT

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April 08, 2005, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Representatives from Indian industry, the Department of Commerce, U.S. industry, and domestic consumer groups take an in-depth look at the risks—real and perceived—as well as the measures currently in place and new measures under consideration by industry and government to protect consumers' privacy while maximizing the benefits of globalization.

Information Technology and Development: Beyond ""Either/Or""

Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The decision of the world's leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 to adopt eight specific development goals provided an agreed political benchmark for measuring progress. Left open, however, were crucial issues about how b

What's New About the New Economy?: IT, Economic Growth and Productivity

Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT

Brookings Economic Papers

Keeping the Good Times Rolling: Technology and the Global Economy

Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMT

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October 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM