Republican Romney calls for U.S. innovation
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DEARBORN, Michigan  - Republican Mitt Romney, a former governor who would be the first Mormon in the White House, launched his campaign on Tuesday with a call for "innovation and transformation" to rejuvenate the economy and restore faith in government.
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Recognizing political change as the hot new commodity, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is launching a television ad Wednesday in Iowa and New Hampshire casting himself as the Republican best able to reclaim a wayward party and lead it in a new direction.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney returns to his native state of Michigan on Tuesday to officially kick off his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
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Mitt Romney on Wednesday swapped talk of resurrecting the auto industry that helped him in Michigan with a pledge to pay attention to textile and other industrial job losses that have punished the South.
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DETROIT, Jan. 14 -- Mitt Romney said Monday that as president he would ease fuel-efficiency standards and spend billions more in federal money to bolster struggling automakers, a direct appeal to voters in a state that is likely to determine whether his campaign remains competitive or is relegated...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused Friday on stopping illegal immigration and keeping Washington out of increased health care coverage.
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(InfoWorld) - Innovation may be tough to define, but the best way to encourage it is to get rid of industry regulations and trade barriers, a group of IT-focused analysts said Wednesday. The U.S. must do a better job of encouraging innovation, said panelists at an ACT (Association for Competitive Technology) forum. But the speakers didn't all agree on how to accomplish that goal. Despite many U.S. lawmakers recently trumpeting their innovation agendas, the problem is that no one has a good way to define and copy innovation, said Veronique de Rugy, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "We know what it does, but we don't know what it is." ACT, an advocacy group representing small and medium-sized IT vendors, released a report on Wednesday calling for the U.S. government to embrace three policies to promote innovation: robust intellectual property protection, market-based international trade, and minimal competition regulation. Countries enacting those three policies, including the U.S., have created the best environments for innovation in the IT industry and other sectors, said Steve DelBianco, ACT's vice president for public policy. DelBianco decried efforts in other countries to block imports of U.S. technology. Countries like France and Norway,Â which have complained about how Apple has tied its iTunes music download service to its iPod player, are attempting to regulate an innovative service for the benefit of a handful of local vendors, he said. Many countries are looking for ways to cultivate innovation, he said. "The answers they seek will not be found in protectionism and centralized industrial policy, but in creating an environment that rewards innovations and embraces competition," he added. While ACT called on governments to take a deregulatory approach to trade and competition, it asked the U.S. and other governments to take action to protect its members' intellectual property. One major problem is the U.S. government doesn't see the large picture when other countries act to stifle U.S. products, said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation think tank. The U.S. reacts in a piecemeal fashion with trade complaints, but it doesn't seem to recognize that tariffs may be part of a national policy against U.S. products, he said. During a recent visit to India, Atkinson told IT leaders there that they depend on the U.S. to fuel their outsourcing industry, but the country maintained the second highest tariff worldwide on the import of U.S. computers. Indian leaders disputed Atkinson's numbers. Atkinson suggested the U.S. government shouldÂ take more action in pointing out such trade imbalances. "I think we're falling asleep at the switch in the U.S.," he said.
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Widely available broadband, electronic health records and increased government spending on research and development (R&D) are among the technology-related goals in the U.S. Republican Party's 2004 platform, released this week.
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Republican presidential  hopeful Mitt Romney said on Friday the U.S. economy needs a  shot in the arm to ensure it does not slip into a recession  because it is in a "fragile" state.
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Like the big car companies in his native state of Michigan, Mitt Romney could use a rebound.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney drops out of the Republican presidential race. Romney is considered to have run one of the most technologically sophisticated campaigns.
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Mitt Romney, who has pledged to bring his business sense to the White House, outlined an economic stimulus package Saturday far bigger than anything President Bush, congressional leaders or top presidential rivals have suggested.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday defended his opposition to embryonic stem cell research despite its scientific promise to cure diseases like multiple sclerosis that afflicts his wife, Ann.
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(InfoWorld) - A group of five Republican senators is seeking a delay in legislation, supported by several large tech vendors, that would overhaul the U.S. patent system. The five, including Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sam Brownback of Kansas, have asked for more hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee moves ahead with the Patent Reform Act, which is scheduled to be amended and approved in a Thursday hearing. The five sent a letter Monday to the Judiciary Committee asking for more hearings. "Many prominent American businesses on the cutting edge of innovation are expressing concerns about the impact of sweeping patent reform," said the letter, also signed by Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Jon Kyl of Arizona and Jeff Sessions of Alabama. "These concerns merit thoughtful deliberation." Many observers have called the Patent Reform Act the most sweeping reform of U.S. patent laws in decades. The bill would make it tougher for inventors to obtain new patents, make it easier to challenge patents, and reduce the legal penalties for patent violations. Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. have praised the bill, saying it's too easy for the owners of questionable patents to sue tech companies and collect large damages or shut down entire product lines with court injunctions when one small piece of a product allegedly infringes a patent. "This important measure ensures that our patent system continues to foster innovation and economic growth by promoting improvements in patent quality [and] discouraging litigation abuse," Microsoft said in a statement when the bill was introduced. But five Republican senators raised concerns about the bill, echoed by some small tech companies and other members of the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, a group calling for less sweeping changes to the U.S. patent system. The senators questioned the bill's attempt to apportion patent award damages. The bill would limit the damages a patent holder can collect when an infringing technology is part of a larger product, based on the value of the patented technology itself, instead of the value of the larger product. Courts now generally consider the value of the larger product when assessing damages. The senators also questioned the bill's provisions to allow new ways to challenge patents after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted them. These changes "need to be more carefully examined to ensure that they do not undermine innovation, increase frivolous litigation, or undermine property rights," the letter said. The letter also calls on the committee to look harder at ways to improve patent quality.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney called for a fresh U.S. strategy in the war on terrorism on Thursday.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday he wants all delegates seated at next year's GOP National Convention, but he also wants Iowa and New Hampshire to lead off the nomination contests.
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Mitt Romney said he felt as if his campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee was, in a sense, an extension of his fatherâs unsuccessful bid in 1968.