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Lars Erik Schönander

Lars Erik Schönander is a Research Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation.
Articles by Lars Erik Schönander

Capitalizing Main Street: The Past and Future of Small Business Investment Companies

Both Democrats and Republicans want America to build things again: semiconductors, nuclear power, and more. But beneath high-tech industries lie thousands of underappreciated businesses—machine shops, chemical manufacturers, and others—that form the backbone of any industrial economy. Overhauling the SBIC program to fund these unsung industrial companies will help ensure that American manufacturing survives and that American small businesses continue to grow…

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Drone Policy in the U.S. and Ukraine: Addressing Foreign Control of a Key Technology

The Russian-Ukrainian War has seen the rise of new tactics involving small commercial drones, including the use of drones as improvised anti-tank weapons, suicide weapons, and reconnaissance tools for artillery units. Ukraine goes through a staggering ten thousand drones a month—at a minimum. The United States has contributed drone technology to Ukraine in many forms…

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Tracking Benign and Malign Foreign Investment in the United States

Between 2017 and 2018, a single Chinese billionaire bought over 140,000 acres of land next to an American military base in southern Texas, and the government did not even know how many LLCs were initially involved in buying the land. It was not even the federal govern­ment that discovered these purchases originally, but a small…

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