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Emerging Technology
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The Ghost Guns Haunting National Crime Statistics

Colorado is the 12th state to ban “ghost guns”. The use of unserialized firearms has grown 1000% since 2017.

06.06.23 | 3 min read
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Environment
Blog
Cultural Burning: How Age-Old Practices Are Reshaping Wildfire Policy

The Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission called for input from diverse stakeholders and FAS, along with partners Conservation X Labs (CXL), COMPASS, and the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), answered the call. Recruiting participants from academia, the private sector, national labs, and other nonprofits, the Wildland Fire Policy Accelerator produced 24 ideas […]

06.05.23 | 8 min read
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Emerging Technology
Blog
Systems Thinking In Entrepreneurship Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems”

Ecosystems aren’t just for biologists anymore. Here is how and why entrepreneurs and policymakers should look at innovation communities as ecosystems.

06.05.23 | 13 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Strengthening the U.S. Biomanufacturing Sector Through Standardization

The U.S. is facing a shortage in both pilot-scale and manufacturing-scale biomanufacturing facilities that severely hinders product development and commercialization.

06.01.23 | 9 min read
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Emerging Technology
Article
A Focused Research Organization to Systematically Study Bacteriophage Genes and their Functions

Systematically sequencing the genome and studying the function of genes from viruses will enable the development of phage-gene libraries that can in turn enable the faster development of genetic tools for advancing molecular biology.

05.31.23 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
Share an Idea For What FESI Can Do To Advance DOE’s Mission

Do you have ideas that could inform an ambitious project that FESI has a comparative advantage pursuing? We want to hear it.

05.25.23 | 3 min read
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Clean Energy
FESI >> Priority Use Cases

Friends of FESI have identified priority use cases to inform project ideas.

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

Good data is a critical component of delivering effective government services from local to federal levels. But now, too much useful data lives in a silo.

05.25.23 | 4 min read
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Emerging Technology
day one project
Policy Memo
Increasing Access to Capital by Expanding SBA’s Secondary Market Capacity

Interagency Community Investment Committee agencies should partner with the Small Business Administration to use their existing authority and infrastructure to pilot a secondary market for their securitized debt instruments.

05.25.23 | 9 min read
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Global Risk
Blog
How do you clean up 170 million pieces of space junk?

The space economy is enormous, but one of its biggest challenges is tiny: space debris.

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

The CHIPS and Science Act establishes a compelling vision for U.S. innovation and place-based industrial policy, but that vision is already being hampered by tight funding.

05.23.23 | 10 min read
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Environment
day one project
Policy Memo
Building a National Network of Composite Pipes to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The U.S. would need 65,000 miles of pipeline to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Here’s how the Biden Administration can expanding the use of low-emission, composite materials to support a net-zero vision.

05.22.23 | 9 min read
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