Q&A with William Bonvillian, Lecturer at MIT
William Bonvillian is the director of Workforce Project, a research project on workforce educations at MIT’s Office of Open Learning. Prior to joining the Open Learning team, Bill taught science and technology policy at MIT in 2007 and has also taught a course on innovation policy in 2017. He was also the Director of MIT’s Washington, D.C. Office, reporting to MIT’s President from 2006 – 2017; in D.C. he worked to support MIT’s strong and historic relations with federal R&D agencies, and its role on national science policy. He has also worked with major MIT technology policy initiatives on energy technology, the “convergence” of life, engineering and physical sciences, advanced manufacturing, online higher education and its “innovation orchard” project on startup scale-up. The study on workforce education builds on ideas in his new book (co-written with Peter L, Singer), released in January 2018 by MIT Press, Advanced Manufacturing – The New American Innovation Policies.