As Build Back Better Regional Challenge communities get to work, they represent our best hope for greater opportunity across the country.
Three new programs, NSF Engines, Tech Hubs and Recompete, plus existing programs like BBBRC and GJC, represent a massive proposed investment in building regional innovation clusters.
Federal STEM-funding agencies — led by NSF and NIH, as the two largest sources of federal funding for academic research — should explore and pursue strategies for changing grant-funding incentives in ways that strengthen and elevate the role of the career research scientist in academia.
The Biden-Harris Administration can combat the impacts of redlining through a new place-based program called “Putting Redlines in the Green”.
The Biden Administration should create the Make it in America Regional Challenge (MIARC) to activate demand in underinvested regions with cluster-based techno-economic development efforts.
A resilient, secure, & prosperous clean energy economy increasingly demands investments in advanced energy manufacturing and supply chains.
Dominant research-funding paradigms are constraining the outputs of America’s innovation systems.
Without reform, exclusionary zoning will continue to damage equity and inhibit growth and opportunity in many parts of America.
Expanded manufacturing programs will invest in our nation’s long-term competitive innovation capacity.
The administration should implement two reforms to clarify and update rules governing use of facilities financed by tax-exempt bonds.
Guiding the evolution of AVs towards the future we want requires evaluating AVs with metrics that prioritize societally beneficial outcomes.
By supporting bottom-up, place-based investment and building a network of new ideas, the Administration can foster American dynamism.