I'm going to echo what Professor Plourde just said, that a role for government is to provide incentives. We do that in many industries today by finding technologies that can compete for support. I'm going to echo the idea that chasing or trying to pick a winner is not likely to be very productive in the long term. But when we provide some incentives that people can compete for to get a leg up and become more competitive in the market or to design new solutions that allow them to participate in the greater market more effectively, then we're likely to have more impact and a faster impact and an affirmation of some of the technologies that will eventually be the winners.
On May 9th, 2016. See this statement in context.