Science & Technology

New technologies—from Internet advances to artificial intelligence to synthetic biology and many more—are transforming the global economy and are offering unmatched opportunities to alleviate poverty, raise economic growth, treat disease, and improve lives all over the world. But they also fuel new geopolitical competition and pose unprecedented governance challenges to domestic political institutions. Hoover scholars conduct original research, bring together private sector and public sector leaders, and develop policy recommendations.

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America Risks A Dangerous Dependence On Chinese Chips: While The US Focuses On The Cutting Edge, China Is Stealing A March In ‘Foundational’ Semiconductor

October 2, 2025 By Mike Kuiken

via Financial Times

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At Long Last, Clarity On Climate

September 7, 2025 By Steven Koonin

via The Wall Street Journal

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Don’t Lose Out On Scientific “Brain Gain”

Norbert Holtkamp says it’s crucial to both encourage and manage international partnerships.

August 28, 2025 interview with Norbert Holtkamp , Martin Giles

via Defining Ideas

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How Emerging Technologies Take Shape

July 21, 2025 interview with Herbert Lin

via Defining Ideas

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Dr. Jay Goes To Washington: Reforming Science From The Inside At NIH

May 28, 2025 interview with Jay Bhattacharya

via Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

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China Is Winning The Cyberwar

August 13, 2025 By Anne Neuberger

via Foreign Affairs

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Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

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Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

Terry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct). He is the past president of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, MT, and a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University where he won many teaching awards during his 25 year career. Anderson is one of the founders of “free market environmentalism,” the idea of using markets and property rights to solve environmental problems, and in 2015 published the third edition of his co-authored book by that title. He is author or editor of 39 books, including most recently, Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations (2016), exploring the institutional underpinnings of American Indian reservation economies. In addition to publishing in professional journals, Terry Anderson speaks around the world and is often featured in the popular press, including frequent editorials in the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1972 and has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Basel University, Clemson University, and Cornell, and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Canterbury. Terry is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys fly fishing, hiking, skiing, horseback riding, and archery hunting.

Norbert Holtkamp

Science Fellow

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Norbert Holtkamp

Science Fellow

Norbert Holtkamp is a Science Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Holtkamp is also a professor of particle physics and astrophysics and of photon science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University At Stanford, he was SLAC’s deputy laboratory director from 2014 to 2022, leading the conception and implementation of multilaboratory partnerships for several Department of Energy and National Science Foundation projects. Since 2019 he has led SLAC’s $1.1 billion LCLS-II Free Electron Laser construction project, built by five US national laboratories. He also managed the laboratory’s overall risk portfolio, which included more than $2.5 billion worth of construction on the SLAC site. He first joined SLAC in 2010 as the associate laboratory director for the accelerator directorate. In 2006, he was nominated principal deputy director of ITER, an international organization founded in France with seven members—the European Union (through Euratom), China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States—collaborating on a 20-billion-Euro project to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion devise. From 2001 to 2006, Holtkamp served as the director of the Accelerator Systems Division for the $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source, built by a collaboration of six Department of Energy national laboratories. He held various leadership positions on a variety of US and international science infrastructure projects at Fermi National Accelerator Lab and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. He chaired the Particle Accelerator Conference in 2005 and the Linac Conference in 2006. In June 2008 he received the Gersh Budker Prize of the European Physical Society. Holtkamp has an MS-equivalent degree in physics from the University of Berlin and a PhD in physics from the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany. His interests include science applications, technology transfer, and the value and future of international science collaborations.

Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

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Terry Anderson

John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow (adjunct)

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Technology Policy Accelerator

The Hoover Institution’s Technology Policy Accelerator conducts research and develops insights that help government and business leaders better understand emerging technology and its geopolitical implications so they can seize opportunities, mitigate risks, and advance American interests and values.