Foreign Relations & International Law

ChinaTalk: How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks

Jordan Schneider
Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 6:24 PM

Published by The Lawfare Institute
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Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week's guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a plan to improve America's R&D apparatus: fund start-ups that allow entrepreneurial researchers to pursue the practical applications of their world-class basic research. We discuss why we're lucky to have Moderna and BioNTech (beyond the obvious reasons), the impact of research moving from corporations to universities, the Endless Frontier Act, why patents don't equal innovation and more.

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Outtro Music:

עטר מיינר - זמן לדיכאון : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwSj4egHxvE (god that violin)

Peled - Sababa 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Pe0Gxbx5c

טדי נגוסה ויסמין מועלם - Teddy Neguse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajN_M2k_STM&t=98s

Photo of Bell Labs, abandoned.


Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."

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