Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Tough Tech, Roombas, Valleys of Death, and Woolly Mammoths
How do Roombas illustrate the promise and peril of translational research? Which valley of death is really the worst valley of death? And how can woo…
4 years, 7 months ago
Labs over Fabs: Why the US and EU Should Invest in the Future of Semiconductors
Chris Miller of Tufts and I discuss our report Labs over Fabs, our case for the US to be spending money more broadly than currently conceived by the …
4 years, 8 months ago
Xi: Failed Reformer?
Why does Xi govern like he's running out of time? Rhodium's Dan Rosen and CSIS' Jude Blanchette discuss their recent Foreign Affairs pieces recapping…
4 years, 8 months ago
China's Solar Industry
How did Chinese firms come to dominate the global solar industry? Now that the Biden administration has banned imports for some key components of sol…
4 years, 8 months ago
Larry Summers on China
Is China different? Does secular stagnation apply? How have Chinese economic policymakers changed over time? Should industrial policy be a thing? Wh…
4 years, 8 months ago
After Xi: How Past CCP Successions Can Teach Us What Happens Next
Xi Jinping will not rule China forever. What have CCP leadership transitions looked like in the past, and what can we expect when Xi exits stage left…
4 years, 8 months ago
China's Cyber Strengths + How to Analyze Policy
Dave Aitel, who started his career at NSA and spent the past twenty years in offensive cybersecurity, comes on ChinaTalk to discuss
What he's learn…4 years, 8 months ago
DARPA and How to R&D Right
Ben Reinhardt, an independent researcher and robotics PhD, discusses
Why DARPA has so many hits to its name Why NASA wasted the past two decades Wha…4 years, 9 months ago
In-Q-Tel on Chips, CFIUS, and The Valley of Death
Dr. Yan Zheng, senior technical staff specializing in microelectronics at In-Q-Tel, discusses
What it's like to invest in startups for the CIA and t…4 years, 9 months ago
How to Solve America's R&D Bottlenecks
Bell Labs is dead, long live Bell Labs! This week's guest, Ilan Gur, the CEO of Activate.org, has a plan to improve America's R&D apparatus: fund sta…
4 years, 9 months ago