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André Loesekrug-Pietri

What if Europe had its own DARPA? André Loesekrug-Pietri, co-founder of JEDI, explains how a privately funded agency runs moonshots on rare-earth refining, laser communication and antibiotics, who pays for them, and why he thinks Europe keeps funding projects instead of winners.

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