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Wanted: Presidential Campaigns That Focus on ‘Yankee Ingenuity’

October 9, 2015

The United States once led the world in innovation. But through a combination of fair and unfair means, competitors have overtaken it, writes Rob Atkinson in the Christian Science Monitor. To borrow Donald Trump’s slogan, we can't “make America great again”—or solve key challenges such as making clean energy affordable or boosting productivity—without a policy agenda to get Yankee ingenuity back into high gear.

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