Innovation Mandate: Has America lost its innovation edge?

For the better part of a decade, executives, economists, policy makers, researchers, and other so-called experts have lamented the inexorable decline of the U.S. IT industry and the country's standing as the global technology leader. Reports with ominous titles have questioned whether U.S.-based IT vendors and the organizations they sell to have the technical chops, national backing, and requisite will to out-innovate their counterparts in other countries.