Michael Kratsios
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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But at the same time, we've like opened the aperture for this sort of discovery science and free market approach to to commercialization.
The playbook that they have used for a long time is essentially copying RIP, creating cheaper alternatives of that particular technology, dumping them in the United States, getting our businesses to go out of business, and then squeezing us.
And I think you've seen that with a wide variety of technologies over the years.
And I think it's something that we need to be very, very cognizant of.
I think the second area, which you know they've taken action on and or threatened action on, is around some of our critical.
minerals, which we realize are a very important piece of our larger sort of like tech and science ecosystem, if you will, supply chain.
Um so those those are things that that we have to constantly be be thinking about and preparing ourselves to be able to to to be uh to be independent.
Look, I I I think to me what we could be doing a lot more of is encouraging more Americans to enter the STEM fields.
This is something that has been on my mind for for many, many years.
And a statistic that I I've tracked for a long time is is sort of the the the percentage of US born, you know, PhD recipients in computer science, for example.
If you if you rewind the clock, you know, thirty years, I think it was, you know, seventy percent were American and thirty percent were were foreign and now it
Now it's inverted.
And I think to us as a country, you know, I believe that having a STEM literate workforce is one of the most important superpowers we could have as a country.
And we're doing everything we can to kind of find ways to encourage our younger students to continue to pursue these degrees.
And to me, I mean, back to this thing, I think another thing that we have to take a lot more seriously is, and what I've observed in our science ecosystem is, you know, our
Young scientists, the ones that have just finishing up their PhD and are starting their academic careers, you know, these are one of the toughest jobs you can imagine.
You're paid almost nothing.
You know, you're in a university, you're toying away trying to do research.
These are the most underpaid people you can imagine for what they're doing for our country.
And to us, I think we have to return our scientific enterprise to reward them, to give them opportunities to work on their best ideas and to allow them to.
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