Date: 

April 22, 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm ET

Join the Day One Project and Bipartisan Policy Center for a conversation exploring how public policy can support innovation, invention, and entrepreneurship in underrepresented communities and underserved regions, how public-private partnerships are crucial to this ecosystem, and other ways competitiveness can be enhanced to drive economic impact.

Momentum is growing in Congress to increase R&D spending and make greater investments in science and technology. The Day One Project and Bipartisan Policy Center are motivated by the thinking that the success of these efforts will depend on which innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs can commercialize their research and eager to explore how public policy can increase the opportunity for impact.

Speakers

• Carol Dahl — Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation

• Maryann Feldman — S.K. Heninger Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

• Jonathan Gruber — Ford Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Author, Jump-Starting America

• Sam Hammond — Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy, Niskanen Center

• Jill Johnson — Co-Founder and CEO, Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership

• Tom Kalil — Chief Innovation Officer, Schmidt Futures