The Double Power Law: How American Innovation Really Works

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. innovation ecosystem has been underpinned by a deliberately decentralized model of federal research support. Rooted in the vision laid out by Vannevar Bush in Science, The Endless Frontier, the model rests on a simple but profound premise: sustained public investment in basic research fuels private sector dynamism and long-term national competitiveness. Bush, writing in the aftermath of World War II, saw that wartime collaboration between academia and industry had borne rapid technological fruit — and wisely foresaw that the country would benefit from facilitating scientific inquiry not just during wartime, but also on an

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