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Administration agenda highlights key priorities for BSA member companies
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today expressed its strong support for the Obama Administration’s innovation agenda for strengthening America’s economy by focusing on sustainable growth and quality jobs. The agenda was unveiled today by President Barack Obama at the Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York.
BSA President and CEO Robert Holleyman issued the following statement:
“The innovation strategy that President Obama has set forth is aligned with what the IT sector believes the role of government should be: to set ambitious goals, create incentives for innovation and investment, create a favorable business environment, and allow companies to compete.
“We are pleased to see President Obama recognize that innovation is a main driver for improving the American economy. By using the information technology (IT) sector as the foundation on which to build our strategies, we can answer the challenges facing our country today in every area from health care, energy, and infrastructure, to education and e-government.
“Pro-innovation policies are the key to our long-term future, and we are pleased to see that many of the specific elements of the President’s innovation strategy are ones that BSA members have long embraced.
“Investment in next-generation IT solutions such as health IT, green IT, broadband, and e-government are critically important in driving our economy forward and ensuring that the US maintains its global leadership position as the most innovative and competitive place for IT development and growth.”
Editor’s Note: Click here to see the White House statement on the President’s speech as well as links to White House fact sheets and a white paper on the innovation agenda.
Lars Anderson1.202.346.8811media@bsa.org
The Business Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) is the foremost organization dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members represent one of the fastest growing industries in the world. BSA programs foster technology innovation through education and policy initiatives that promote copyright protection, cyber security, trade and e-commerce. BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, AVG, Bentley Systems, CA, Cadence, Cisco Systems, Corel, CyberLink, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, Dell, Embarcadero, HP, IBM, Intel, Intuit, McAfee, Microsoft, Minitab, Quark, Quest Software, Rosetta Stone, SAP, Siemens, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, and The MathWorks.
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