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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Sridhar Kota

INPUT: $140 Billion Deficit Federal S&T U.S. ATP goods deficits now exceed the total net foreign earnings on all Intellectual Property royalties and fees (including franchise fees) by all "U.S." incorporated companies, from Apple and Intel to Starbucks and McDonald's. (Source: MTN -Nov 2011) S. Kota Innovation Scientific Discovery  Engineering Invention

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Thomas R Kurfess

Manufacturing, the Road to SuccessThomas R. Kurfess, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Director for Advanced ManufacturingWhite House Office of Science & Technology Policy ASEE 2013 Dean’s Colloquium on Public Policy Washington, DC February 12, 2013 1/ 7 S&T as Presidential Priority“Reaffirming America’s role asthe global engine of scientificdiscovery and technologicalinnovation has never been morecritical. …Our renewedcommitment to science andtechnology … will help usprotect our citizens andadvance U.S. national securitypriorities.” –National Security Strategy, May 2010 2/ 7 Some Initiatives Related to Advanced

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Joseph Helble, Dartmouth; Richard Benson, Virginia Tech

theregion. Timken, Lincoln Electric, Goodyear, are just afew of those now looking at additive differently. Ifour job in NAMII is to help bring innovation into themanufacturing sector, the conversations and activitiesit has already enabled is just a glimpse of what thiscould mean for the Tech-Belt.” NNMI LegislationA bill, first introduced bySenator Sherrod Brown ofOhio in 2012 is likely to bereintroduced in 2013.Based on reports on theNAMII the concept appearsto have great potential toimpact manufacturing inthe US and engineeringresearch and education. 112th Congress 7 Other Manufacturing LegislationH.R.375 and S.63 -- Make It In America Manufacturing Act of 2013Rep. David Ciciline, D-R.I. and Sen

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2013 Public Policy Colloquium

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Mike Molnar