The Innovation Movement made important steps in ensuring a thriving future for innovation with passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act in 2012, and approval of voluntary incentive spectrum auctions. However, reforms to the nation’s immigration policy to attract and retain the best and brightest failed to be enacted. Each year, the U.S. educates and trains tens of thousands of foreign students at our world-class universities. Once they complete their education, many of these students are unable to stay in America. Today’s system makes it difficult for...

Nominated by President Barack Obama, Julius Genachowski became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2009. He had already played a leading role in the Obama campaign’s online strategy and remains a strong advocate for a free and open Internet. Genachowski attended both Columbia University and Harvard Law School with Obama and both were top editors at the Harvard Law Review. After Harvard, Genachowski clerked for the Honorable Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then at the U.S. Supreme Court for two years for Justices William J. Brennan and David Souter. He also served as chief counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. You may not...

When I took the reins of CEA in the recession of 1990–91, I had a job to do, and that was keeping CES alive. But in the back of my mind a larger goal loomed: making CES the grandest and most popular consumer electronics show in the world. I knew we needed a strategy that reflected my ambitions. What I didn’t know was that this strategy would encapsulate the very ninja innovator qualities I have described in CEA’s new book which I authored, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses. Following is a condensed excerpt from the book.   1. Ninjas Follow a Code of Conduct: Honesty   In the old days, we used to...

In 2012, CEA’s Innovation Movement launched a new campaign called “Faces of Innovation.” Every week, the Innovation Movement highlights a new innovator or entrepreneur on its website and “Innovation Conversation” newsletter. The individuals featured in the campaign are the real faces of American innovation and are job creators making a better America for today and for future generations. Each innovator has an opportunity to tell their story and voice which issues in the industry are the most important to them and their company. Their stories illustrate the struggles and highlights of running an American business, large and small. As an outlet for...