The government should be a VC when it is in the public interest, i.e. the private VCs are skittish about a filed. DARAP gave us the Internet and driverless car

The government should be a VC when it is in the public interest, i.e. the private VCs are skittish about a filed. DARAP gave us the Internet and driverless cars, for example. Like private VCs, they've had dramtic failures too like A123 Battery.