Foundation

America lacks a cohesive vision for winning the global tech race and must urgently develop a national strategy that leverages our collective ingenuity to maintain its leadership in frontier technologies.

Universities and national labs have made technology transfer exceedingly difficult, walling off potential breakthroughs from the commercial markets and leaving untold IP on scientists’ workbenches in the process.

As innovation and reshoring begins to create good jobs in critical industries, employers are scrambling to find skilled talent as a result of lethargic and underperforming public education and workforce systems.

Thirty years of offshoring have left America without an industrial commons, including the advanced manufacturing capabilities needed to turn promising R&D into prototypes and ultimately scaled production.

The vast majority of investment capital that is catalytic to innovation is highly concentrated in just a small handful of coastal cities, despite significant potential in often overlooked regions.

Traditional diplomacy and development efforts tend to lack the expertise necessary to fully leverage technological innovations in order to address pressing global challenges.