Contents

Prologue: Everyone Else

Introduction: Endless Invention

1: For Our Comfort, Our Security, Our Prosperity

2: Whatever It Takes

3: Descent from the Heavens

4: The Limits of Private Research and Development

5: Public R&D: Pushing Frontiers and Promoting Growth

6: America: Lands of Opportunity

7: Innovation for Growth

8: Big Science and the Industries of the Future: If Not Us, Then Who?

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise for Jump-Starting America

Appendix: 102 Places for Jump-Starting America

Map: 102 Places for Jump-Starting America

List: 102 Places for Jump-Starting America