A Pro-Innovation Growth Policy

-- Continued support for free trade, which provides the global markets needed to sustain new products

-- A permissive attitude toward immigration, which brings in needed skills

-- Increasing deregulation of financial markets, to allow capital to flow to the most innovative sectors

-- Stepped-up federal support for basic research in universities and corporations across a wide range of disciplines

-- Increased support for graduate education in the natural sciences, computing, and engineering

-- Careful attention to regulating new services, such as the Internet, in a way that promotes growth

DATA: BUSINESS WEEK



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