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Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

Seeking to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.

  • Accelerating Defense Tech Innovation

    The Project for Accelerating Defense Tech Innovation seeks to enhance US national security by collaborating with leading entrepreneurs, investors, and defense policymakers to improve and accelerate the development of innovative defense capabilities.

  • Bio-Strategies and Leadership Initiative

    The Bio-Strategies and Leadership Initiative within the Hoover Institution works to ensure that biotechnology programs are well-understood and utilized in a variety of sectors, including economics, natural security, and public health.

  • Center for Revitalizing American Institutions

    This emerging center within the Hoover Institution focuses on studying and proposing reforms to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of American institutions, such as government agencies, public services, and regulatory bodies.

  • China’s Global Sharp Power

    The China’s Global Sharp Power Project delivers data-driven analysis and actionable solutions that equip decisionmakers to strike more resilient, balanced, and vigilant relationships with the People’s Republic of China.

  • Good American Citizenship Working Group

    The Working Group on Good American Citizenship seeks to address the country’s dual crises of civic ignorance and irresponsible citizenship via research, communication, and advocacy, in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary.

  • Improving American Elections Project

    The Improving American Elections Initiative brings together election officials, academic experts and political practitioners to study American elections and develop initiatives to improve Americans’ confidence in their reliability.

  • Leadership for Responsible Space Policy

    The Leadership for Responsible Space Policy (LRSP) initiative conducts research into areas such as scaling space startups to meet vital national security needs, cybersecurity issues in space, and other critical issues.

  • Renewing Indigenous Economies Project

    Dedicated to understanding how the rich history of governance, entrepreneurship, and trade allowed indigenous peoples to thrive before colonization and how restoring these traditions can help rebuild indigenous economies, cultures, and communities.

  • Strengthening US-India Relations

    The goal of the US-India Program at Hoover is to generate, identify, and advance policy-relevant scholarship and connections that will deepen the relationship between the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest democracy.

  • Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region

    Supports research and public dialogue about Taiwan’s democracy and society and the pivotal position Taiwan occupies in a vast, strategic, and increasingly integrated swath of the world.

  • Tech Futures Lab

    The Tech Futures Lab’s mission is to help the United States better anticipate potential strategic technological surprises and help it strengthen resilience through improved planning and risk management.

  • Tech Track 2

    TT2 seeks to break down barriers between the government, industry, and academia, and inspire partnerships that reinforce US advantages critical to protecting liberal Democratic values, fostering prosperity, and preserving peace worldwide.

  • Technology Policy Accelerator

    Seeks to understand the drivers and dynamics of technological innovation in the 21st century, assess opportunities and risks that breakthrough technologies are creating, and develop governance approaches that maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks.