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6 Closing Observations
Pages 25-26

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... The first, investing in the fundamental building blocks of innovation, includes educating Americans with 21st century skills, strengthening leadership in fundamental research through research funding and nurturing research institutions, building a leading physical infrastructure to support innovation, and developing an advanced information technology ecosystem. The second pillar calls for promoting marketbased innovation by accelerating business innovation using the Research and Experimentation tax credit, encouraging innovation-based entrepreneurship, growing investment in ingenuity with effective policy on intellectual property rights, and promoting innovative, open, and competitive markets.
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... Going forward, there are a number of steps the nation needs to take to scale the successes that MIDs are already producing, said Holdren. These include the following:  Boosting pre-college STEM inspiration and preparation, particularly in technology and engineering, to encourage more students to pursue careers in STEM fields;  Accelerating the revolution in undergraduate STEM teaching to promote active learning and early laboratory experience as a means of conveying the excitement that comes from real world careers in STEM fields, while deemphasizing classroom lectures;  Growing the interdisciplinary graduate teaching and training pipeline to increase the number of individuals who have the skills to serve as integrators;  Striving for greater inclusion and success of females and minorities in all STEM fields;  Propagating the understanding that not all experiments succeed and creating a culture that embraces the idea that knowledge comes from failure as well as success; and  Overcoming the barriers to adequate investment in basic research.
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