Collaborative innovation economy

Products and services and customers are inextricably linked. An enterprise s value proposition is expressed in the value—the products and services—it delivers to its customers. In the New Economy, these linkages will become more formalized as organizations innovate and produce new products with their customers. Customer capital will grow when the enterprise and its customers learn from each other. Collaborative innovation will be in everyone s best interest. 

Collaborative innovation has become the new arbiter of national competitiveness. We must recognize collaborative innovation as a national priority. For the United States or any nation to thrive in the hyper-competitive world economy they must, with urgency, mobilize business, government, educators, and researchers to adopt collaborative innovation as a core strategy to build the foundation for a 21st-century knowledge-based economy. 

The directional roadmap for R D investment in a global, knowledge-intensive service economies is aimed at building collaborative innovation capacity throughout the ecosystem of entities that participate in the open marketplace. 

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