The Exploring Innovation Frontiers Initiative (EIFI) is a national, public-private effort to accelerate the over-the-horizon, transformative innovation models that will drive U.S. competitiveness in the coming decades.
Sponsored by NSF Directorate of Engineering, Office of Emerging Frontiers of Research and Innovation (EFRI) – EIFI is a qualitative analysis that will collect, synthesize and disseminate broadly the experiential knowledge of active innovation practitioners. This information will be used to provide academicians with direction for future research in innovation, business leaders and strategists with insights to inform future business models, and policymakers with knowledge to enact public policies that create a supportive environment for sustained innovation-driven growth.
The Council – in partnership with our distinctive network of members and affiliates – will host a series of expert dialogues across the United States underpinned by best-in-class intelligence from reports and initiatives making the competitiveness case for strengthening innovation ecosystems. These dialogues will convene a diverse and representative mix of innovation leaders from industry (small, large, entrepreneurial), academia (university presidents, researchers, students), national laboratories and research institutions, labor leaders, and key influencers (foundation and media leaders). The goals of the EIFI progressive dialogue series are to:
- Craft with national and regional stakeholders a transformational innovation action agenda that draws on the strengths of NSF research and positions the United States as a global innovation leader for decades to come,
- Catalyze a larger movement to enhance U.S. competitiveness and economic growth by accelerating knowledge creation and the transfer of science and engineering research into market reality, and
- Expand and improve public and private sector engagement in the innovation process.
For more information about EIFI, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Executive Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness.
