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Finance Forum 2025

Incentivizing Investment in Innovative Critical and Emerging Technologies

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Amidst continued global emphasis on regionalization and the desire to inoculate supply chains against financial and strategic uncertainty, decisionmakers around the world are confronted with the challenge of maintaining leadership in the development of critical and emerging technologies. Solving for this complex challenge requires striking a delicate balance, ensuring innovation ecosystems are not only competitive, resilient, and inclusive, but are attractive enough to investors to incentivize sustained deployment of capital. This panel will bring together investors and policymakers to examine what is currently working to incentivize investment and what more can be done. 

    Moderator

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    Karen Kornbluh

    Senior Advisor, Milken Institute

    Speakers

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    Doug Arent

    Executive Director, NREL Foundation; Emeritus NREL; Distinguished Fellow, World Economic Forum; Global Fellow CGEP, Columbia University
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    Jennifer Hankins

    Managing Director, Tulsa Innovation Labs
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    Jigar Shah

    Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
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    Maggie Switek

    Senior Director, Research, Milken Institute