Anyone have a counter proposal that would better achieve the states goals, with the same money?

Stuff like:

Local market-driven investment, private sector matching, streamlined regulations, education, infrastructure, promotion, independent evaluation, and competition to foster tech hubs in selected cities.

Thoughts?

Serial startup founder. (Businessofai.co)
Podcast host. (Otherspaces.live)
Community builder. (Superdebate.org)

Two ideas:

- X Prize milestone based grants (can make them smaller than $1B) that any team that hits the objective physics or chemistry outcomes automatically gets paid out.

- Any city above 200,000 people that builds X units of market rate housing within 0.25 miles of a transit hub gets an automatic $X00 million

Too rational for politics and government workers…

I liked the idea of what Canada did with the SR&ED tax incentive (https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/scientific-research-experimental-development-tax-incentive-program.html). A number of startups I worked with leveraged it. I do wonder if it's working though.