Between the Bayh-Dole Act, DARPA, NASA, the NSF Seed fund, and Department of Ene...

Agathos on Oct 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty...

Between the Bayh-Dole Act, DARPA, NASA, the NSF Seed fund, and Department of Energy loans (I seem to recall the A123 loan was a political football for a while) doesn't the US already put a lot of money into technology startups?

The only difference is, the US government doesn't take equity, and thank goodness for that. Imagine a political appointee on the board of every new technology company.

wayoutthere on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

The three letter agencies do in fact place people on the boards and within the executive ranks of the companies the DoD awards contracts to.