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

Steve Blank

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. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s s primary great power competitor.

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

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. We focused on the challenges created when U.S. Guest Speakers.

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

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities for the United States in its enduring strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals. Government. Why This Class? We focused on the challenges created when U.S.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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The Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford

Steve Blank

Over the last decade we’ve created a series of classes in entrepreneurship, rapid innovation, and national security: Lean LaunchPad ; National Science Foundation I-Corps ; Hacking for Defense ; Hacking for Diplomacy ; Technology, Innovation and Modern War last year; and this year Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition.

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Hacking for Allies

Steve Blank

The goal of Hacking for Allies , (which will launch a second cohort next week,) is to connect dual-use startups (those that sell to companies and government agencies) in allied nations to the U.S. Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. defense ecosystem. defense market. defense market. Register here.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. To create great entrepreneurs, we had to give our students the experience of navigating the chaos and uncertainty of running a lean startup while providing the same kind of rigorous framework the business plan did in its day. Today the U.C.