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

Steve Blank

government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. Guest Speakers.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

They converted reefs in international waters into airbases, creating unsinkable aircraft carriers that extend the range of their aircraft and are armed with surface to air missiles make it dangerous to approach China’s mainland and Taiwan. Instead, iterative design approaches dominate software design. What To Do About It?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S. bombers. (The

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to give our students insights on how commercial technology (AI, machine learning, autonomy, cyber, quantum, semiconductors, access to space, biotech, hypersonics, and others) will shape how we employ all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage).