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Security Clearances: Barriers to Entry and Defense Innovation

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1/21/21

The meeting featured Paul Bracken of Yale School of Management who described how security clearances can deter small innovative firms from being able to successfully bid on defense contracts. He used simple economic and business school frameworks to analyze this problem and explain why it is becoming much greater in a world of small and medium-sized enterprises, venture capital, and network technologies.

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Security Clearances: Barriers to Entry and Defense Innovation

*“Un Secret D’en Haut” (“A Secret on High”) by Hippolytus Alexandre Julien Moulin (French 1832-84) depicting Mercury whispering a secret to the head of Pan knowing Pan will never repeat it.

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