{"id":233943,"date":"2026-04-21T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/how-to-expand-the-us-economy-mit-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:00:11","slug":"how-to-expand-the-us-economy-mit-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/how-to-expand-the-us-economy-mit-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How to expand the US economy | MIT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/how-to-expand-us-economy-priority-technologies-book-0421\">How to expand the US economy | MIT News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/how-to-expand-us-economy-priority-technologies-book-0421\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/how-to-expand-us-economy-priority-technologies-book-0421<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 11:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.mit.edu\">news.mit.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an essential insight about our world: Innovation drives economic growth. For the U.S. to thrive, it must keep innovating. But how, and in what areas?<\/p>\n<p>A new book co-authored by MIT faculty members focuses on six key areas where technology advances can drive the economy and support national security.<\/p>\n<p>Those sectors \u2014 semiconductors, biotechnology, critical minerals, drones, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing \u2014 are all built on U.S. know-how but are also areas where the country has either yielded a lead in production or innovation, or could yet fall behind.<\/p>\n<p>As the book explains, a roadmap for U.S. prosperity and security involves sustaining notable areas of innovation and the national research ecosystem behind them, while rebuilding domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn each of these areas, there are breakthroughs to be had, where the U.S. can leapfrog competitors and gain an advantage,\u201d says Elisabeth Reynolds, an MIT expert on industrial innovation and editor of the new volume. \u201cThat\u2019s a very exciting part of this.\u201d She adds: \u201cThese areas are front and center for U.S. national economic and security policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book, \u201cPriority Technologies: Ensuring U.S. Security and Shared Prosperity,\u201d is published this week by the MIT Press. It features chapters by MIT faculty with expertise on the industrial sectors in question. Reynolds, a professor of the practice in MIT\u2019s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is a leading expert on industrial innovation and has long advocated for innovation-based growth that helps the U.S. workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of this can be good for everyone,\u201d says MIT economist Simon Johnson, who wrote the foreword to the book. \u201cOut of that flow of innovations and ideas, we can create more good jobs for all Americans. Pushing the technological frontier and turning that into jobs is definitely going to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making more chips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPriority Technologies\u201d grew out of an ongoing MIT seminar by the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/how-to-expand-us-economy-priority-technologies-book-0421\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to expand the US economy | MIT News https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2026\/how-to-expand-us-economy-priority-technologies-book-0421 Publish Date: 2026-04-21 11:50:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/202604\/MIT_Priority-technologies-01.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,57],"class_list":["post-233943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233945,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233943\/revisions\/233945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}