I’m only about 25% through reading Innovate America, the report from the Council on Competitiveness, but InfoWorld has a report from Grant Gross, who also interviewed some of the contributors, including IBM chief Sam Palmisano.

In this excerpt from the InfoWorld article, Palmisano emphasizes innovation leadership may come more from cooperation rather than competition.

Link: InfoWorld: IBM, others push for greater U.S. innovation: December 15, 2004.

Web-based tools where customers custom-build products and consumer-based business plans from companies such as eBay Inc. encourage innovation outside the walls of companies, Palmisano said. "None of us is as innovative as all of us," he said. "In the coming years … we will not longer look at intellectual property to be owned but we’ll think of intellectual capital." The report encourages U.S. companies to improve their competitive posture, but also looks for how the U.S. can cooperate with other nations, Palmisano said.