Vivek Wadhwa, Executive-in-Residence/Adjunct Professor at Duke University, is making headlines with his recent BusinessWeek online column on the debatable "engineering gap" in the United States.
Most of the recent conversation stems from a Duke study that compares the number of U.S. engineering graduates to those in developing nations, particularly India and China.
Kauffman's eVenturing blog is among the media outlets to highlight Wadhwa and the Duke study.
Producing high-quality engineers is clearly a priority for any entrepreneurial country. Aside from educating enough engineers, what else should the U.S. be doing to maintain its global competitive advantage in the innovation economy?