National Innovation Act of 2006
Current understanding
The National Innovation Act was a 2006 Senate bill that proposed creating a presidential innovation council, doubling NSF research funding over a set period, expanding graduate science and engineering fellowships, and tasking the Department of Commerce and NIST with promoting regional innovation clusters and advanced manufacturing. The bill was referred to committee and did not advance to become law, so none of its provisions took effect. It is of interest primarily as a historical marker of federal innovation-policy proposals that overlapped with what later became the America COMPETES Act framework.
Evidence log
- 2006-07-19 — American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2006: cross-connection with american-innovation-competitiveness-act-2006: Both are 2006 Senate innovation-policy vehicles proposing White House-level science/technology coordination and federal research-investment guidance; neither advanced to enactment in this form. (novelty: 2)