Innovation Systems & Policy
This type of intellectual property protects inventions and gives exclusive rights to creators for a period of time.
What is a patent?
This technology enables computers to perform parallel processing inspired by the human brain.
What is neural networks?
This stage of startup funding typically comes after seed funding and focuses on scaling operations.
What is Series A funding?
This concept refers to bias in AI systems caused by unrepresentative training data.
What is algorithmic bias?
This company became the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station.
What is SpaceX?
This term refers to government support, often financial, given to encourage innovation or industry growth.
What is a subsidy?
This field studies computing systems that use quantum bits instead of classical bits.
What is quantum computing?
This metric measures how much it costs to acquire a new customer.
What is customer acquisition cost (CAC)?
This term refers to protecting personal information from misuse in digital systems.
What is data privacy?
This reusable rocket system significantly reduced the cost of launching payloads into space.
What is Falcon 9?
This concept describes collaboration between universities, industry, and government to drive innovation.
What is the triple helix model?
This concept refers to training AI models using labeled datasets to improve accuracy.
What is supervised learning?
This term refers to how quickly a startup is spending its available capital.
What is burn rate?
This concept ensures that AI decisions can be understood and explained by humans.
What is explainability (or explainable AI)?
This NASA project focuses on building a long-term human presence on the Moon.
What is the Artemis program?
This U.S. law in 1980 allowed universities to commercialize inventions developed through federally funded research.
What is the Bayh-Dole Act?
This technology allows digital assets to be represented securely on a blockchain.
What are tokens (or tokenization)?
This metric measures the total revenue a business expects from a customer over time.
What is lifetime value (LTV)?
This ethical issue arises when AI systems make decisions that affect human rights or fairness.
What is AI governance (or ethical AI decision-making)?
This concept refers to extracting resources like water or minerals from space bodies.
What is space mining (or asteroid mining)?
This policy approach focuses on creating environments where startups, investors, and institutions interact to drive growth.
What is an innovation ecosystem?
This concept refers to machines independently making decisions in dynamic environments without human input.
What are autonomous systems?
This term describes when a startup’s valuation exceeds $10 billion.
What is a decacorn?
This concept refers to the risk of AI systems making harmful decisions due to misaligned objectives.
What is the alignment problem?
This term refers to the commercialization of space activities by private companies.
What is the privatization of space (or commercial spaceflight)?