American Innovation

Semiconductors, or “chips,” the silicon-based computational building blocks for everything from at-home dishwashers to hypersonic guided missiles, have garnered significant attention from lawmakers as a technology warranting significant domestic manufacture.

RAI Program Coordinator and Research Assistant, Gabrielle Athanasia, summarizes CSIS event "Inclusive Innovation: Building Opportunities for all Americans".

A recent determination by the U.S. Department of Energy- drafted ostensibly to promote U.S. competitiveness- may instead stifle innovation by creating bureaucratic delay and uncertainty.

The Bayh-Dole Act played a key role in renewing American innovation policy in response to the perceived competitiveness challenge from Japan. The lessons of how this legislation came together is once again relevant as we confront today’s innovation challenge from China.

Long mythologized as heroes in the United States’ entrepreneur-obsessed culture, venture capitalists play a vital role in identifying and providing advice and funding – from early-stage and expansion through to late-stage and acquisition – for some of the world’s most innovative firms. 

RAI Deputy Director and Fellow, Alexander Kersten, summarizes CSIS event "Assuring U.S. Global Competitiveness in Science, Technology and Commerce: An Armchair Discussion with Representative Haley Stevens".