PCAST Report
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council believe that a coherent innovation policy that supports advanced manufacturing will provide the basis for high-quality jobs for Americans and sustain U.S. competitiveness in the 21st century.
To ensure that the United States attracts manufacturing activity and remains a leader in knowledge production, PCAST recommends in its June, 2011 "Report to the President on Ensuring American Leadership in Advanced Manufacturing", the following strategies:
(1) Create a fertile environment for innovation so that the United States provides the overall best environment for business. We believe this can be accomplished through tax and business policy, robust support for basic research, and training and education of a high-skilled workforce
(2) Invest to overcome market failures, to ensure that new technologies and design methodologies are developed here, and that technology-based enterprises have the infra¬structure to flourish here.
The U.S. Government has had a long history of partnership with companies and universities in developing and commercializing the new technologies that have been the foundation of our economic success - from the telephone, to the microwave, to the jet engine, to the Internet. The AMP will provide insights that provide the basis for similar breakthroughs in the next decade.
At PCAST's recommendation, the President launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) in June 2011.
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