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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations beyond COVID Vaccines?

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  • Arielle D’Souza
  • Kendall Hoyt
  • Christopher M. Snyder
  • Alec Stapp

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Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a US government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical 10-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to 10 months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a year after launch. OWS’s success has led to calls for a similar mission model to accelerate innovations addressing other pressing social needs, including a cure for Alzheimer’s disease or atmospheric carbon removal to combat global warming. We provide a framework to understand which innovations call for a mission approach and apply economic principles to identify key design features that contributed to the success of OWS.

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  • Arielle D’Souza & Kendall Hoyt & Christopher M. Snyder & Alec Stapp, 2025. "Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations beyond COVID Vaccines?," Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 4(1), pages 103-138.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:eipoec:doi:10.1086/732855
    DOI: 10.1086/732855
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