"In her new book, Innovating in a Secret World: The Future of National Security and Global Leadership, Tina Srivastava, PhD ’15, examines why it’s hard for the government to approach innovation like the private sector. . . . As Srivastava highlights in her book, there are two broad barriers to open innovation: Government regulations, and unintentional discouragement of new innovators for established companies."—Meredith Somers, MIT Management Sloan School
"'Our national security depends on advancements in science and technology,' writes Tina Srivastava, a former Raytheon engineer, and now an author, entrepreneur and technology expert. . . . Srivastava ends the book with recommendations on how the government can foster innovation and increase the number of players participating in national security- related research and development."—National Defense
“Night-vision scopes, speech-to-text algorithms, and ultra-quiet helicopters are just some of the examples of technologies critical to our national security that are discussed in this book. As the rate of innovation of commercial ventures outpaces government-funded classified R&D, we need to ask some hard questions. This book provides a fascinating and provocative perspective that is grounded in rigorous research and deep industrial experience.”—Olivier L. de Weck, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and senior vice president for technology planning and roadmapping at Airbus
“So much of the technology our modern society depends on has its roots in U.S. government-supported research, where national security and secrecy constraints are paramount. As the pace of innovation accelerates and the R&D center of gravity shifts, Srivastava gives a clear-eyed view of how to balance secrecy and innovation in the years to come.”—Nathan Wiedenman, program manager of the first classified program seeking to use open innovation for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
“In today’s United States, government-sponsored research and national security are closely intertwined. A regulatory framework that ‘gets it right’ is a high-priority need. Srivastava’s book is a major contribution to understanding some critical challenges facing this effort.”—John Akula, senior lecturer in law at the MIT Sloan School of Management
“Crowd-sourced innovation is having a transformative impact in the commercial world and has strong potential for government programs as well. This book shows the critical connection between technical innovation, the law, and government policy and should be read by all three communities.”—Brent Appleby, deputy to the vice president of engineering for S&T and director of algorithms and software at Draper Laboratory
