Despite Significant Challenges & Economic Anxiety, Business Leaders and Americans Align Around New Strategies to Offset Risk According to New Milken Institute-Harris Poll - Seite 2

• The Resilience Imperative: America's Unified Quest for Endurance
  Cultivating resilience across society is seen as crucial for managing disruptions and shaping the future. An overwhelming (89%) of business leaders concur that “it is important that America is able to create resilient policies and solutions to navigate disruptions.” Likewise, (86%) of Americans say, “I want a more resilient America that leads the word in its capacity to navigate and handle crises.” Nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe securing America’s global leadership position in the next four years will tangibly improve their communities (79%), their job security (78%), their life overall (78%), as well as the U.S. overall (78%).
  

• Consensus for Place-Based Innovation to Restore Trust and Advance Progress
  There's a shared conviction amongst business leaders that place-based innovation can rebuild institutional trust (91%), create new manufacturing systems (90%), and rebuild political trust (88%). Americans echo this sentiment, agreeing that “business leaders should work more closely with government leaders to solve our social challenges” (76%). And what’s interesting is perhaps this innovation is already happening, as (71%) of Americans say, “innovation is bubbling ​ up in local communities, but national media is missing this story.”

“These findings validate what we see as an emerging, consensus for solving our biggest challenges through cross-sectoral and bottom-up solutions,” said Dan Carol, who leads Milken Institute’s climate finance practice and geo-economics programs. “Working with business leaders, governments, and frontline community leaders in this way will help us bolster US competitiveness and local economic resilience.”

The Milken Institute has been at the forefront of advancing geo-economics research, programs, and innovation workstreams to help policy, business, and civic leaders navigate the rapidly evolving global economic landscape. The newly released poll and discussions at the conference will help guide the Institute’s future geo-economic priorities, with a focus on: (1) harnessing innovation and AI to usher in a new era of equitable human development and breakthroughs in tailored education, gov-tech, and civic engagement; (2) re-wiring supply chains to identify key chokepoints and near-shoring opportunities; and (3) bolstering climate resilience to help governments, communities and the private sector re-calibrate climate strategies. This includes its 10,000 Communities Initiative which is accelerating and advancing critical community infrastructure projects by maximizing innovation and integration across regions, sectors, and sources of capital investment.