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The preceding two decades have witnessed an increasingly competitive environment globally. For the US economy, this has also been a time when policy responses have not reflected the long-term vision that guided priorities and spearheaded its progress for years after the Second World War. The narrative of competitiveness in the past was shaped from certain structural strengths that were put into place in the US economy decades ago. Given a much more competitive global economic landscape, the course to economic recovery will be charted out by the measures taken to overcome the weaknesses that eroded the competitive edge that was once the defining feature of the US economy.
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Mahtaney, P. (2013). The US Innovation Ecosystem: In Need of Renewal. In: Globalization and Sustainable Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024992_11
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