Copyright

William Boone Bonvillian

Published On

2020-01-09

Page Range

pp. 77-118

Language

  • English

Print Length

41 pages

4. The Connected Science Model for Innovation—The DARPA Model

  • William Boone Bonvillian (author)
Chapter of: The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (pp. 77–118)

Chapter 4, by William B. Bonvillian, discusses the “DARPA Model”, and particularly how it follows an approach developed during World War II that connects cutting-edge science with the solution of specific technical challenges.

Contributors

William Boone Bonvillian

(author)
Lecturer and Senior Director, MIT Office of Digital Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at MIT, and Senior Director at MIT's Office of Digital Learning, leading a project on workforce education. From 2006 until 2017, he was Director of MIT's Washington Office, supporting MIT's historic role in science policy. He teaches courses on innovation systems at MIT and is coauthor of three books on innovation, Advanced Manufacturing: The New American Innovation Policies (2018), Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors (2015), and Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution (2009), as well as numerous articles. Previously he worked for over fifteen years on innovation issues as a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate, and earlier was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation. He serves on the National Academies of Sciences' standing committee for its Innovation Policy Forum and chairs the Committee on Science and Engineering Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2011. He has a BA from Columbia, an MAR from Yale and a JD from Columbia.