Individual industries have their own alphabet soup of trade groups -- but we need one association, speaking with one voice, to drive US innovation policy. Innovation-based industries such as IT, aerospace, digital content, and life sciences are the engines of US economic prosperity, increasing productivity, improving competitiveness, and creating good jobs. The federal government needs to do everything it can to ensure that US policies maximize growth of those industries, but Washington is failing on that front.

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