Competitiveness is an important part of success for nations. When innovation moves to the top, creates utility and improves the environment we are becoming more competitive. Often we fail based on the little things such as stiffling innovative, improper vetting of ideas, elitism, improper development strategies, internal power dynamics, promoting self-interested people who block ideas, intellectual theft or false attributions, not diversifying science/faculty that come up with new ideas, lack of industry-academia connections/integration, not funding research adequately, and not listening to stakeholders, etc.
All of these things we can improve on but we have to sort of gain a forest versus tree understanding of what it takes to be nationally competitive. Competitive nations know how to develop their human capital and they open up the pipeliness of ideas. They also reduce roadblocks the best they can to ensure good ideas see the light of day. Organizational Innovation
Personally, I think there are many ways to improve national competitiveness but there are people who knowingly/unknowingly stand in the way. Should we just give up or should we change? Maybe staying the same and wondering why we are not as competitive as we need makes more sense. I lean toward change and improving our national competitiveness. At the end of the day we will either make the choices to compete or we will not make those choices for whatever reason or excuse and we will not be competitive. The maket doesn't lie.
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
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