The White House this week issued a request for public input on potential game-changing technologies the administration might pursue with research and development dollars. The quest to identify innovation goals for the next century is modeled at least in part on President Kennedy's commitment to send man to the moon in the 1960s.
More specifically, the White House appears to be looking to set up a number of "grand challenges" for inventors and scientists to solve over coming years, which the country could use as "an organizing principle for America's science, technology and innovation policy" in order to address key national priorities, spur economic growth, and catalyze interest in the sciences.
NAE News - The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council have released a "request for information" that is designed to collect input from the public regarding:
- The grand challenges that were identified in the President's innovation strategy;
- Other grand challenges that the Administration should consider, such as those identified by the NAE;
- Partners (e.g. companies, investors, foundations, social enterprises, non-profit organizations, philanthropists, research universities, consortia, etc.) that are interested in collaborating with each other and the Administration to achieve one or more of these goals; and
- Models for creating an "architecture of participation" that allows many individuals and organizations to contribute to the process of finding solutions to these grand challenges.
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