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Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Innovation Toolkit

There's lots of different approaches that the government could use to try to solve problems and foster innovation. And I think we need just a lot more experimentation so that we begin to develop some heuristics about when and under what circumstances you should use these different approaches. One idea we had during the Obama administration is something that we called the innovation toolkit. The reason that I like the toolkit metaphor is that you don't want to be that person who has a hammer and is looking for a nail to hit.

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