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FESI >> Priority Use Cases

…Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (FFAR) Crush Covid Campaign (CDCF) 8. Enabling communities and new entrants to participate in clean energy innovation. Landmark legislation has greatly expanded DOE’s on-the-ground footprint…

05.25.23 | 3 min read
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Social Innovation
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We have the data to improve social services at the state and local levels. So how do we use it?

…state and local progress. Stack and Womer point out a number of options that do not require legislative action. For example, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other…

05.25.23 | 4 min read
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Ecosystems & Entrepreneurship
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Policies
Increasing Access to Capital by Expanding SBA’s Secondary Market Capacity

…or several agencies should enter into a pilot partnership with SBA to use SBA’s existing administrative authority and infrastructure to enable private lenders to sell other forms of federally securitized…

05.25.23 | 9 min read
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Science Policy
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How do you clean up 170 million pieces of space junk?

…a growing and self-replicating cascade of orbital junk, is also a growing possibility. Political leaders have begun to pay attention: Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO)–one of the leaders in Congress on…

05.24.23 | 6 min read
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Technology & Innovation
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The bold vision of the CHIPS and Science Act isn’t getting the funding it needs

…research funding gaps are a substantial restraint on innovative capacity, the diminished place-based funding is an out-and-out emergency. These programs are important because after years of uneven economic progress across…

05.23.23 | 10 min read
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