innovation

ChatGPT generated a detailed visual of the Apollo mission control room, symbolizing the effectiveness of mission-driven public innovation during the space race era

Trump’s 2025 R&D Retreat Ignores Key Lessons from “The Entrepreneurial State”

Having just finished Mariana Mazzucato’s 2024 book The Entrepreneurial State, I was struck by how powerfully it illuminated the reality behind state-led innovation, starkly contrasting with the Trump administration’s current approach of scaling back government investment and hoping that corporate R&D can independently fill the gap. Mazzucato thoroughly dismantles the … [continued]

The California startup QuantumScape is one key step closer to commercial-scale production of its new solid state EV battery, featuring the only known self-assembling anode fabrication process in the auto industry

The Solid-State EV Battery Journey Has Only Just Begun

The California startup QuantumScape is one key step closer to commercial-scale production of its new solid state EV battery, featuring the only known self-assembling anode fabrication process in the auto industry.