It’s an essential insight about our world: Innovation drives economic growth. For the U.S. to thrive, it must keep innovating. But how, and in what areas?
A new book co-authored by MIT faculty members focuses on six key areas where technology advances can drive the economy and support national security.
Those sectors — semiconductors, biotechnology, critical minerals, drones, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing — are all built on U.S. know-how but are also areas where the country has either yielded a lead in production or innovation, or could yet fall behind.
As the book explains, a roadmap for U.S. prosperity and security involves sustaining notable areas of innovation and the national research ecosystem behind them, while rebuilding domestic…
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