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Published November 2012

The purpose of the Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative (TLSI) a distinctive, leadership network of chief technology officers from industry, academia and national laboratories incubated by the Council on Competitiveness is to understand a range of changes, challenges and opportunities facing the United States and to design a new paradigm for public-private partnership necessary to supporting America's future technology leadership.

The goals of the TLSI are straightforward:

• Define technology investment drivers and strategies at the heart of long-term innovation capacity;
• Establish a new paradigm for collaboration between the public and private sectors to optimize America's investments in research, talent and technology; and,
• Identify critical technology and policy roadmaps to assure that the United States sustains the innovation and technology advantage required for national security and economic competitiveness.

For the past three years, the TLSI has suggested ways to strengthen America's technology leadership through an ongoing, progressive dialogue and a series of cutting-edge reports, surveys and conferences. The TLSI Overview and its 3-volume set of 6 reports, Change, Explore, Energize, Examine, Optimize, and Resolve document the ongoing efforts of the TLSI, its key recommendations, and a path forward to ensure long-term U.S. competitiveness

Energize
Dialogue 3: Energizing Commercialization and Building the 21st Century Public-Private Collaboratory to Drive Strategic Technologies
What roles do industry, government and universities play in the U.S. research enterprise and how might those entities interact more effectively?

Examine
Dialogue 4: Preliminary Findings and Recommendations from the TLSI Working Groups
What are some of the priority actions that could increase public-private collaboration, and improve the speed and volume of inventions that are successfully commercialized?