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Deep Pockets

29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Petra Söderling, the author of 'Governments and Innovation - the Economic Developer's Guide to Our Future', discusses the role governments play in creating new innovations, and innovation based industries.  To subscribe to more free content go to https://petrasoderling.com/ Nothing in the show should be taken as investment advise.

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Episodes

On the Shoulders of Giants: 10 Quantum Pioneers of the Past

February 13, 2024 08:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MB

Brian Lenahan of the Quantum Strategy Institute talks about his two passions; the writing process and quantum. The latest book 'On the Shoulders of Giants: 10 Quantum Pioneers of the Past' talks about the  people in distant and recent past who inspire the scientists, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts of today.  Who were the mathematicians, the tinkerers, the builders and philosophers that brought us the quantum science we commercialize today. 

The Death of Death - Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality

February 02, 2024 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MB

Within the next ten years, the anti-aging industry will be world's biggest industry. It will no longer be just about "looking younger" or "feeling younger". It will be, through science, about "solving the problem of the aging of the human body". This is the promise of the book The Death of Death - The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and its Moral Defense by by José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood. 

Spectrum Wars - The Rise of 5G and Beyond

January 31, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

It may be a surprise that radio spectrum is a limited resource, becoming more and more limited as new uses and users are being added.  Today’s guest Jennifer A. Manner knows everything about this subject as she literally wrote the book, many books in fact, about the standardization, allocation, and innovation around radio waves. Her most recent book 'Spectrum Wars - The Rise of 5G and Beyond' discusses the evolving international spectrum regulatory landscape and how to meet the growing deman...

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital.

January 23, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MB

Kimberly Clausing's book defends the global economic integration, and suggests ways for Americans to first of all, ride along and not become crushed by international realities, but also to create national policies within the U.S. to equip workers for the modern economy, better tax policies, and better partnerships between tax payers and businesses. 

Wealthcare, Web3 and your Personal Health Data Economics

January 16, 2024 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Wealthcare - Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies by Dr. Brigitte Piniewski introduces the imperative for individually specific health intelligence. As Web3 and AI advance new technical instruments, diverse stakeholders are desperate for a clear understanding of the path to society's next data-driven wealth inflection. How can decentralized personalization lead to human-in-the-loop decision-making.

Beginner's Handbook for Doing Business with Government

January 10, 2024 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

For many private companies creating products in nascent technologies, government agencies are the first paying customers. How would a small business go about discovering and creating these contracts. Dan Roche’s book “The Total Beginner's Handbook for Doing Business with the Government - A Plain Language, Easy-to-Understand, and Mildly Entertaining Guide to a Complicated and Often Misunderstood Business” will get you started. 

Introduction to Season 3

January 10, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes - 1.79 MB

Welcome back to Deep Pockets, the show that brings you insight and knowledge on the birth and dissemination of deep technologies, the role of different stakeholders, and what it takes to make a successful innovation-based economic plan. 

Debating Professor's Privilege

April 20, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

University spin-off team, or university drop-out founder? Today we discuss tech transfer from academia to markets and who owns inventions realized in companies and universities. Today's guest is the former president of Licensing Executives Society Scandinavia, Olli Pekonen, who has extensive experience in patenting hi-tech inventions. What would be the best model to foster maximum innovation potential out of the brightest scientists and innovators of our time? How to make sure inventors get ...

Buckle Up! Space and Innovations

April 13, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MB

Space is becoming an increasingly interesting playground for private companies. What are the next great milestones of the space industry we will likely see in recent years? In the studio with me is the maestro of the space industry, Arfan Chaudhry, Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships in the Saudi Space Commission, former International Director of the UK Space Agency.

Cyber, AI, Quantum: The Trio of Invisible Threats

April 06, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MB

Our modern society may need more cyber security experts than soldiers. What do you think of this sentence? Thought-provoking? Today's guest, the multitalented Danika Hannon, gives us the lay of the land of the fascinating world of cyber security, where AI and quantum are adding new layers of challenges. Even though the cyber security industry is increasingly critically important to individuals, companies, and societies, it is in a serious shortage of skilled professionals.

How Can Education Innovation Change the World?

March 30, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MB

Education innovators want to make learning easier and more fun for children – but how a successful educational innovation is created? This and many other topics with me is discussing today Märt Aro, an expert in educational innovation from Estonia, a land of such start-up success stories like Skype, and also an outstanding achiever in the PISA results. Märt is a founder of several education companies and NGOs, the latest being DreamApply.com. 

Energy Transition in America Explained through Infrastructure

March 23, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB

On November 15, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law a 1.2 trillion dollar bill, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. How will this law and its budget affect the transition toward cleaner energy and a healthier environment? In the studio Rao Konidena, author of Modern Electricity Systems: Engineering, Operations, and Policy.

Genomics, vaccines, and health tech in Public-Private Partnerships

March 16, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

We are all interested in our health, but as taxpayers and voters, we should also be interested in the health of our fellow citizens, coworkers, teachers, bus drivers, and CEOs. In this episode, Charlie Schick, Ph.D. in molecular biology, is "crafting bits-atoms-narratives in a physical-digital-sublime world" for us. 

Peeling off Layers of Metaverse

March 09, 2023 18:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MB

Jon Radoff, a famed game designer, spokesperson on AI and virtual worlds, and a self-described “metavert” designed the concept ‘the seven layers of Metaverse’. What is metaverse, why do we need it, who is creating it, and who is using it? Does the government play a role? Join our conversation peeling off the layers of metaverse. 

Turning Deep Tech into sellable Products

March 02, 2023 16:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MB

Can start-up entrepreneurs and academic scientists speak the same language? Can one person be both of those things at the same time? We interview the multi-talent Tanya Ramond, who holds a PhD in physics, runs her own company, mentors space start-ups at Techstars, reviews programs at NSF, and oh, also plays the violin and speaks French. Join our talk and discover practical tools for commercializing science. 

Space Tech Talk with Top Gun

February 23, 2023 14:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MB

Robert Beletic, call sign ‘Surf’, sat down with us to talk about his long career in the US Air Force, the Canadian Air Force, and UAE Ministry of Defense. How does a long career in the operational and strategic national security environment prepare someone for an economic development role? In this case, extremely well. Join us to hear what this Top Gun is doing for the Colorado Aerospace industry. 

Speeding Up Trade with Minnesota

February 16, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB

Strategizing trade, creating public policies around trade, and executing on those is not a privilege reserved for nations only. Even states can create and boost federal and international trade. Gabrielle Gerbaud, Executive Director of the Minnesota Trade Office, shares her trade toolbox with us, including tax policies, diplomacy, direct commercial guidance, and free-trade zones. How does Minnesota, the second happiest state in the US and the birthplace of inventions like Post-it notes, creat...

Immigration Policy as Talent Catcher

February 09, 2023 15:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

Is the US making most of its immigration potential? Is the system working for American companies in demand of smart and educated employees? Is it working for those immigrants? Silicon Valley Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law, Sophie Alcorn, has firsthand experience in working with tech professionals, startups, and Fortune 100 companies. Join our conversation on immigration, technology, aspirations and the good life. 

A glorious mutation: New Orleans the Sustainable Tech Incubator

March 31, 2022 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

New Orleans is described as the northernmost Caribbean city with a rich cultural heritage.  Michel Hecht, CEO of Greater New Orleans Inc. talks to us how economic development efforts on federal, state, and local level have enabled Nola tech companies to create $2.5 billion worth of exists since January 2021, how oil and gas rigs are being turned into wind farms, and how NASA, Lockheed Martin and Boeing are creating the New Orleans Space Campus. 

Distributed Energy Grids - Consumer takes Charge

March 09, 2022 19:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MB

Climate crisis, Russia's aggression, Cybersecurity: Many good reasons to reduce dependency from static, large fossil fuel based energy infrastructures. Rao Konidena, Founder and CEO of Rakon Energy LLC walks us through the logistics, finances, and policy aspects of distributed, aggregated energy grids.  

Nations Race for Quantum State

December 27, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

The US, EU, China and other states have announced public initiatives worth of billions, in support of quantum technology development in their regions. Celia Merzbacher, the Executive Director at the US based Quantum Economic Development Consortium QED-C, discusses the public and private quantum economic dynamics that will have a tectonic impact on how nations  will prosper in the future. 

Nations Race for Quantum State

December 27, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

The US, EU, China and other states have announced public initiatives worth of billions, in support of quantum technology development in their regions. Celia Merzbacher, the Executive Director at the US based Quantum Economic Development Consortium QED-C, discusses the public and private quantum economic dynamics that will have a tectonic impact on how nations  will prosper in the future. 

How Wars fuel Innovation

November 25, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

Why is CIA investing in tech startups? Should the Department of Defense be responsible for basic science? Was 9/11 good or bad for innovation?  Laura Thomas, a specialist in National Security and  Emerging Technologies discusses the role of national safety, budgeting and public procurement in how they affect technology innovation. 

How Wars fuel Innovation

November 25, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

Why is CIA investing in tech startups? Should the Department of Defense be responsible for basic science? Was 9/11 good or bad for innovation?  Laura Thomas, a specialist in National Security and  Emerging Technologies discusses the role of national safety, budgeting and public procurement in how they affect technology innovation. 

What's wrong with the web asked Tim Berners-Lee

October 07, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

In 2001 Ora Lassila, James Hendler, and Tim Berners-Lee publish a paper in the Scientific American titled The Semantic Web. This would be a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers rather than humans and will unleash a revolution of new possibilities. Then what happened? Dr. Ora Lassila tells the story. 

It's 1988 in London and then: Smartphones!

October 06, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

David Wood, Futurist, Catalyst, Author, and Singularitarian shares the fascinating stories of the early smartphone industry. "The story of the evolution of smartphones is fascinating in its own right – for its rich set of characters, and for its colourful set of triumphs and disasters. But the story has wider implications. Many important lessons can be drawn from careful review of the successes and, yes, the failures of the smartphone industry." 

Is Quantum Computing a good investment?

September 30, 2021 18:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

"Any investor that invests into quantum computing and expects a liquidity event other than exit is fooling her or himself".  André M. König, CEO of Entanglement Capital talks quantum computing, public support and private investment landscape. 

Introduction

August 27, 2021 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.18 MB

In the spring of 2020 I realized I was spending too much time watching Netflix, and reading too few books. I stumbled upon Dr Mariana Mazzucato's The Entrepreneurial State. That led to a journey into technologies, governments, and deeply rooted worldviews. 

Introduction

August 27, 2021 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.18 MB

In the spring of 2020 I realized I was spending too much time watching Netflix, and reading too few books. I stumbled upon Dr Mariana Mazzucato's The Entrepreneurial State. That led to a journey into technologies, governments, and deeply rooted worldviews.