Collaborative Advantage: The Days of U.S. Technological Domination Are over. The Nation Must Learn to Thrive Through Working with Others‪.‬

Almost daily, news reports feature multinational companies--many based in the United States--that are establishing technology development facilities in China, India, and other emerging economies. General Electric, General Motors, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola--the list grows steadily longer. And these new facilities no longer focus on low-level technologies to meet Third World conditions. They are doing the cutting-edge research once done only in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Moreover, the multinationals are being joined by new firms, such as Huawei, Lenovo, and Wipro, from the emerging economies. This current globalization of technology development is, we believe, qualitatively different from globalization of the past. But the implications of the differences have not sunk in with key U.S. decisionmakers in government and industry. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]