Harnessing Science and Technology for America's Economic Future: National and Regional Priorities (1999)

9:00 A.M.

Welcoming Remarks: Wm. A. Wulf, National Academy of Engineering

9:15 A.M.

Opening Remarks by Forum Co-Chairs;

Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP

Bill Spencer, SEMATECH

9:45 A.M.

Video Presentations

10:00 A.M.

Congressional Perspectives

Senator Jeff Bingaman

Representative George Brown

Kevin Sabo, Senate Commerce Committee

Noon

Lunch

1:15 P.M.

Technology and Long-Term Economic Growth

Richard Nelson, Columbia University

Transformation of U.S. Innovation: Where Will Technology Come From?

Richard Rosenbloom, Harvard Business School

The Global Context

David Mowery, University of California at Berkeley

3:15 P.M.

The U.S. Environment for Venture Capital and Technology-Based Start-Ups

Charles Geschke, Adobe Systems

John Shoch, Asset Management Associates

What's Gone Wrong in Asia?

C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics

4:15 P.M.

Lessons Learned from State, Local, and Regional Partnerships

Dorothy Baunach, Cleveland Tomorrow; Christopher Coburn, Battelle

5:30 P.M.

Adjourn

8:30 A.M.

Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education to Support U.S. Prosperity in the Next Century

Wm. A. Wulf, National Academy of Engineering

Bruce Alberts, National Academy of Sciences

Eric Ryan, Tufts University

10:00 A.M.

Defining the Federal Role

Mary Good, Venture Capital Inc., moderator

Duncan Moore, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Peter Lyons, Office of Senator Pete Domenici

Lewis Branscomb, Harvard University

11:15 A.M.

Science, Technology, and the Economy: Other Perspectives

Stephen S. Roach, Morgan Stanley

Randy Barber, Center for Economic Organizing

Kevin P. Stiroh, The Conference Board

12:45 P.M.

Breakout groups meet over lunch

2:15 P.M.

Breakout groups report

3:00 P.M.

Closing discussion

4:00 P.M.

Adjourn