IP Democracy: Eshoo Organizes Competitiveness Summit

CNET’s Declan McCullagh has a column today about an upcoming “competitiveness” summit organized by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA). The closed event will be held at Stanford University in September and invitees include prominent high tech, biotech, telecom, and venture capital executives, along with academics from the university.

The goal is to bring these folks together in an informal setting to hammer out legislation that can “address all the aspects of competitiveness” Eshoo told McCullagh. Among the ideas that will be bandied about: simplifying the tax system, public school reform that boosts math and science education and amending the Patriot Act to allow more foreign scientists to work in the U.S.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on August 22, 2005 8:29 AM to IP Democracy