National Goals, Private Ingenuity: Rekindling the Spirit of American Collaboration

National Goals, Private Ingenuity: Rekindling the Spirit of American Collaboration

From IBM building mission-critical systems for NASA to the acceleration of the Manhattan Project powered by America’s brightest scientists and engineers, the story of U.S. innovation was once defined by deep collaboration between the public and private sectors. Over the past several decades, however, the focus of American innovation has shifted. Efforts once aimed at advancing national progress have increasingly turned toward refining consumer e…