State-led Chips Governments around the world spend billions of dollars in pursuit of food security and now the focus has expanded to computer security. China is prioritizing its domestic needs ahead of exporting semiconductors, which will squeeze overseas customers. Meanwhile, the U.S. Congress is moving on a $52 billion plan within the United States Innovation and Competition Act to spur the domestic production of chips and various European governments are looking to encourage self-sufficiency in microchips, though European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager warns that state aid must be “necessary, appropriate, proportionate.” Not all countries think computers are critical, however. Indonesian President Joko Widod...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.