What Commerce Does:

Foster a more innovative U.S. economy—one that is better at inventing, improving, and commercializing products and technologies that lead to higher productivity and competitiveness.

• Grow a more productive, agile, and high-value manufacturing sector through partnerships and collaborations that accelerate technology development and commercialization
• Increase the capacity of U.S. regional economies to accelerate the production of value-added goods and services by providing services to and investments in businesses and communities
• Strengthen the Nation’s digital economy by championing policies that will maximize the potential of the Internet, expanding broadband capacity, and enhancing cybersecurity
• Accelerate the development of industry-led skills strategies that result in a productive workforce for employers and high-quality jobs for workers
• Accelerate growth of innovation-intensive economic sectors by building public and private capacity to invent, improve, and commercialize new products and services