Strategic Competition > Alliances & Partnerships
Securing Innovation and Supply Chain Networks
Building Trusted Ecosystems for Enduring Strength
"The nations that innovate together and secure their supply chains together will lead the century together."
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🔹 Strategic Context
- This page is part of WISC’s Strategic Competition framework, applying geoeconomic statecraft through the STEAD model — integrating Security, Technology, Economics, Alliances, and Diplomacy — to secure U.S. leadership across critical domains.
Strategic Framing
- Innovation without supply chain resilience is fragile.
- Supply chains without innovation leadership are stagnant.
- Strategic competition requires both.
- America’s trusted networks must:
- Share research and development across critical technologies.
- Secure and diversify supply chains for semiconductors, critical minerals, energy, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies.
- Align infrastructure investment, logistics security, and innovation standards across trusted partners.
Why It Matters
- Securing critical inputs: No innovation ecosystem can function without secure access to critical goods.
- Defending innovation capacity: Trusted R&D partnerships protect intellectual property, talent, and technological leadership.
- Protecting infrastructure: Ensuring logistics, digital, and energy resilience reduces strategic vulnerabilities.
Key Actions
- Coordinate trusted R&D alliances (semiconductors, AI, quantum, clean energy) among allied nations.
- Build resilient supply chains through collective sourcing, investment screening, and infrastructure diversification.
- Jointly set trusted innovation standards for emerging tech sectors to lock in democratic norms.
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Quad Critical and Emerging Technologies Working Group
R&D coordination on AI, quantum, biotech.
Chip 4 Alliance (U.S., Japan, South Korea, Taiwan)
Securing semiconductor supply chains, innovation leadership.
NATO Innovation Fund
Venture capital-style funding for dual-use tech startups across allied countries.
G7 Critical Minerals Security Partnership (CMSP)
Securing critical minerals supply chains among G7 nations and allies.
Bilateral Science and Technology Agreements (e.g., U.S.-Japan, U.S.-EU)
Facilitating trusted R&D and protecting intellectual property and research security.
OECD Digital Economy Policy Groups
Setting interoperable digital standards among democratic nations.
World Bank Infrastructure Finance Platforms (when aligned with PGII)
Supporting logistics, energy, and digital infrastructure resilience globally.