Mission Economy (with Mariana Mazzucato)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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DARPA-H, ARPA-D, and the Digital Divide
DARPA brings in people on conment, you know, often from the scientific community for a limited number of years. They are explicitly told to be risk-taking and welcome uncertainty. And unlike most civil servants, that as soon as they make a mistake or fail, they're on the front page of the UK's Daily Mail. The head of procurement in NASA famously had this no excess profits clause during Apollo missions.
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