Re-Air: Building a Competitive Edge: The Role of Industrial Policy in America's Economic Revival with Ian Fletcher and Marc Fasteau

MAR 4, 202634 MIN
The Future of Supply Chain: a Dynamo Ventures Podcast

Re-Air: Building a Competitive Edge: The Role of Industrial Policy in America's Economic Revival with Ian Fletcher and Marc Fasteau

MAR 4, 202634 MIN

Description

From time to time, we’ll re-air a previous episode of the show that our newer audience may have missed. During this episode, Santosh is joined by Ian Fletcher and Marc Fasteau, Co-Authors of “Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries." In this conversation, Marc and Ian emphasize the need for a strategic approach to support key industries, highlighting the importance of government-sponsored research, trade protection, and a competitively valued currency. The conversation also covers the role of tariffs, workforce development, and the necessity of a unified economic strategy. The group advocates for intentional policies to foster economic growth, innovation, competitiveness in the global market, and more.  Highlights from their conversation include: Introducing Marc and Ian and the New Book (0:41) Defining Modern Industrial Policy (4:33) Industry-Based Economic View (5:35) Importance of Industry Selection (7:23) Global Perspectives on Industrial Policy (11:25) Three Pillars of Industrial Policy (17:26) List of Industrial Policy Tools (19:16) Granularity of Industrial Policy (25:27) Role of Tariffs in Industrial Policy (26:49) Workforce Development and Automation (29:00) Future of U.S. Industrial Policy (30:58) Challenges of Policy Silos (31:36) Hope for Unified Discipline in Industrial Policy (32:24) Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups. Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.