America’s innovation leaders have a lengthy wish list for policymakers returning to Washington.Last year, the National Foreign Trade Council’s Global Innovation Forum convened a series of workshops in innovation centers around the country. We asked small business CEOs, innovators from large companies such as General Electric and Procter &Gamble, entrepreneurs and educators in Detroit, Palo Alto and Research Triangle Park about their biggest obstacles to growing innovative businesses in the United States and how Washington could help. Here’s what they told us:
Obstacles to U.S. Innovation
Among the common problems they identified, the most frequently-mentioned is that U.S. immigration and visa policies are harming our ability to compete globally. “Access to global talent is one of the biggest issues facing the American video game industry,” said the president of Cary, North Carolina-based Epic Games. Our cumbersome system is driving jobs and research facilities to Canada, Europe and Asia.
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