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Council on Competitiveness

The Council on Competitiveness is a non-profit, non-partisan, policy action group that sets an action agenda to drive US competitiveness and economic leadership domestically and in world markets. The Council focuses on innovation as the engine of US competitiveness, on cutting edge workforce development, and in benchmarking national economic performance in a global economy.

Corporation for Economic Enterprise

CFED is a nonprofit organization that expands economic opportunity. Established in 1979 as the Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED works to ensure that every person can participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economy by bringing together community practice, public policy, and private markets. They identify promising ideas; test and refine them in communities to find out what works; craft policies and products to help good ideas reach scale; and foster new markets to achieve greater economic impact. CFED produces an annual "Report Card" on the state of financial security in the United States.

National Governor's Association

The NGA is the "collective voice" of America's governor's and promotes the sharing of best practices in state leadership. It has formed an innovation America task force designed to monitor the pace of effective innovation strategies across the states. (December 2006) As this agenda unfolds new measures of innovation may be developed by the NGA's Center for Best Practices. The NGA and the Information Technology and Innovation Institute are co-publishing an updated New Economy Index in 2007.