Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Innovation Policy

Innovation is at the core of scientific and technological advance and economic growth. Fields ranging from artificial intelligence to blockchain systems, social media to precision gene editing, are rapidly innovating and opening new opportunities—often creating new problems along the way. The essays in this section examine the promise and peril of innovation, with a particular focus on the economic impacts of scientific and technological change.