William Bonvillian is the former Director of MIT’s Washington DC Office (2006-2017) and current MIT Lecturer in the Science, Technology and Society and Political Science Departments.

Please join us for a discussion on the historical organization of S&T innovation ecosystems in the US (across government agencies, and in partnership with academia and industry), how the provisions in the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act and other industrial innovation policies under the Biden administration fit into the larger US S&T strategy, and ongoing opportunities and challenges for the United States, with a focus on advanced manufacturing and workforce education.