The ACS is strategically positioned to facilitate the development of highly skilled innovation-focused professionals with the capacity to collaborate with multidisciplinary partners and deliver market-based solutions that not only solve problems but sustains the United States global leadership position. According to the American Strategy for Innovation “We can create the jobs and industries of the future by doing what America does best – investing in the creativity and imagination of our people. To win the future, we must out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world“. For ACS, the key to success lies within its ability is to harness the creative imagination of its membership and align its workforce development programs with strategic investments designed to stimulate innovation-based economic growth. With the emergence of the Innovative and Entrepreneurial University, and strategic investments by the U.S. Department of Commerce, ACS position as an advocate for entrepreneurial education and technology-based economic development can act as a force multiplier and facilitate the emergence of dynamic innovation ecosystems supporting the formation of new industries. This analysis discusses a strategic framework to accelerate the development of innovation-focused professionals with the skills needed to lead organizations delivering market-based innovation to global markets. It also enables members to understand the power of place, and combine their efforts with those of governments eager to attract leaders with the vision necessary to create communities of innovation. And challenges them to implement scalable workforce innovation strategies that are vital to the evolution of innovation ecosystems and the creation of industries of the future.

Innovation ecosystems: Technology-based economic development and workforce development

251st National Meeting (2016)

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