The first microchip was invented in Texas in the 1950s, but many of today’s most advanced chips are made in Taiwan and South Korea. Last week, the U.S. government purchased a 10% stake in the California chipmaker Intel, “to help secure America’s technological edge,” according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

The first biotech companies were created in Cambridge and San Francisco in the 1970s, and now some in that industry are worried our ability to invent and manufacture cutting-edge medicines could be slipping away.

Massachusetts has grown into a global leader in the biotech industry over nearly a half-century, developing new medicines for diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, cystic fibrosis and many others. But now industry veterans are worried about both the future of t

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