Innovation and Government Investment in Research R&D
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America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological ad...
How universities contribute to slow economic growth. Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use | Finance & economics
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In order to create Iron Man-like innovations, defense tech startups must optimally engage the Pentagon instead of treating it as just another custo...
[Recorded: November 20, 2008] Today, Silicon Valley is known around the world as a fount of technology innovation and development fueled by private...
Bloomberg 2017: "A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups. A decade later, the competitors are struggling to perfec...
The discipline of "progress studies" wants to figure out what drives discoveries and inventions so we can supercharge human flourishing.
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Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effect...
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