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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government.

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Top 5 Innovative Business Ideas For Civil Engineers

YoungUpstarts

Roads, streets, bridges, metro lines, and huge skyscrapers everything that we see from the business and corporate buildings to malls for entertainment, is just because of the marvels of civil engineering. In the future, we will witness the role of civil engineers evolve even more as technology is evolving everything and everywhere.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Artificial Intelligence has been the technology right around the corner for at least 50 years. One of the problems about disruptive technology is that disruption doesn’t come with a memo. Others look at the same technology and recognize at that instant the world will no longer be the same (e.g. This year we’ve invented one more.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies.

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Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition

Steve Blank

Nations decline when they lose allies, decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century); a nations military can miss disruptive technology transitions and new operational concepts. See all the class sessions here.)