The challenge here is to create a mechanism for empowering innovation teams out in the open. This is the path toward a sustainable culture of innovation over time as companies face repeated existential threats. My suggested solution is to create a sandbox for innovation that will contain the impact of the new innovation but not constrain the method

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Long sales cycles — Large buyers in infrastructure, industrial, and national security sectors have tended to buy through intermediaries, and typically only from large corporations who ‘check off all the boxes’, e.g. Prime contractors, Tier 1 suppliers, Consultancies etc. It is time to change that, and in addition to a small business grant program, ... See more

Take Home Messages

1. A critical niche in the innovation ecosystem once occupied by industrial labs is unfilled.


2. The current innovation ecosystem — academia, startups, and modern corporate R&D — do not cut it.


3. A private organization that riffs on DARPA's model could fill this niche.


4. Private ARPA (PARPA) will de-risk a series of hypotheses and

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