InformationWeek (Hoover) - The Obama Administration is turning to crowdsourcing to identify "grand challenges" to support as national technology innovation goals.
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.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The NACFAM Weekly: White House Seeks Public Input On Innovation Goals
Author: Paul Fowler
