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Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth? (2007)
National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (SEM)

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. "THE COMPETITIVENESS EQUATION -- THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM." Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth?. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2007.

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Is America Falling Off the Flat Earth?

So in the Libyan fable it is told


That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,


Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,


“With our own feathers, not by others’ hands,


Are we now smitten.”

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