Virtual Event | Executing a National Technology Strategy

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Ideas abound for actions the United States should take to better position itself for the unfolding global technology competition. Concerning topics as diverse as raw materials to semiconductors to STEM education, a nonstop cavalcade of presidential directives, congressional bills, industry proposals, think tank reports, and pronouncements by big-name luminaries have been issued as measures to address American economic competitiveness and national security challenges.

The U.S. government lacks a strategic construct to merge these ideas—for research and development spending, public-private partnerships, tax policy and subsidies, immigration reform, and education—into a coherent whole. The United States must develop an intellectual framework that can serve as a roadmap for successful, long-term American innovation and technological leadership. Alongside this comprehensive framework, the United States needs a blueprint for how to operationalize it.

On Thursday, October 21 CNAS hosted a virtual event on executing a U.S. national technology strategy.