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Emerging Technology
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Policy Memo
Putting Redlines in the Green: Economic Revitalization Through Innovative Neighborhood Markets

Summary The systemic effects of past redlining in more than 200 U.S. cities continue to persist. Redlining was a 20th-century policy that explicitly denied Black Americans the opportunity to secure federal mortgage…

05.16.22 | 11 min read
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Clean Energy
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Policy Memo
Leveraging Department of Energy Authorities and Assets to Strengthen the U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Base

…Congressional approval of new DOE authorities to strengthen domestic manufacturing. Part 2: Complementary Investments Investments to support the domestic manufacturing sector and regional innovation infrastructure must be pursued in tandem…

03.28.22 | 14 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Policy Memo
Creating a Public System of National Laboratory Schools

Summary The computational revolution enables and requires an ambitious reimagining of public high-school and community-college designs, curricula, and educator-training programs. In light of a much-changed — and much-changing — society, we as…

01.19.22 | 32 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
The “FASTER” Act for the Federal Laboratory System

…their records of local economic engagement and technology commercialization vary considerably. Universities, by contrast, have demonstrated a strong record of supporting regional innovation ecosystems through use of place (creating incubators,…

06.28.21 | 2 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Establishing a National Manufacturing Foundation

Emerging technologies developed in the United States are routinely scaled up overseas due to a lack of domestic engineering skills, manufacturing know-how, investment capital, and supply chains.1 A new national…

04.24.20 | 30 min read
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