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title: "Europe’s Real Innovation Challenge"
summary: |-
  Europe and America need to realize the global nature of the innovation competitiveness challenge, wrote Rob Atkinson in this special op-ed of the Spring 2013 issue of "Europe's World."
date: "2013-02-25"
issues: ["National Competitiveness"]
authors: ["Robert D. Atkinson"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2013/02/25/europes-real-innovation-challenge/"
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# Europe’s Real Innovation Challenge

Europe and America possess real innovation strengths. But unless they recognize the global nature of the innovation competitiveness challenge, and respond to it, we must expect slow growth, anemic job creation and rising budget deficits to be the dominant features of tomorrow, wrote Rob Atkinson in this special op-ed of the Spring 2013 issue of* Europe's World*.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2013/02/25/europes-real-innovation-challenge/*