Lechleiter Calling For Immigration Changes
Lechleiter will make the case that the more streamlined immigration regulations prevent talented people trained in the United States to go to other countries to start businesses that compete with U.S. companies.
He will also call for government funding of basic research support and effort of the company-wide to develop new generations of Americans with expertise in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields .
Lechleiter believes great scientific and revolutionary ideas come out more and more talent pool.
June 23, 2011
Text of the speech Lilly CEO John Lechleiter of
Good afternoon.
Itsa great pleasure to be here today, and a privilege to speak to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation on your fifth birthday.
Every American company that is based on ideas for his success and that includes almost everyone should thank you for your strong voice on the importance of innovation for competitiveness and economic health of the Americas.Few issues are as essential to ensure that the 21st century is another American century so I commend you for five years of important and impressive!
It is also normal that the discussion today takes place at the Newseum. The free flow of ideas was an essential part of our successful nations and is also an essential element of innovation.
The Newseum once asked a group of journalists and academics to select the 100 best stories of the 20th century.
As you can imagine, the D-Day the New Deal of Watergate and the Kennedy assassination all made the list.
But its interesting that almost a third of stories on the list are innovation the vast majority of them American innovation.
Men to walk on the moon and the Wright Brothers first flight numbers were 2 and 4 Model T Ford was number 17 and the introduction of personal computers, 31.
Medical innovation was also well represented with the discovery of penicillin vaccine against polio and the structure of DNA all in the top 25.
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