Resources
Find out about entrepreneurial development programs you can enroll in or support. Learn about ways to accelerate energy innovation.
Big Ideas:
Policy barriers for energy innovation could prevent leapfrogs in the marketplace.
Frank A Wolak, Director Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), Stanford University compiles a list of state and local regulatory barriers to greater penetration of technologies and mechanisms that reduce the carbon content of the energy services consumed in the United States.
The Kauffman Foundation finds that a new type of organization can help to develop and test prototypes and conduct market research.
Exemplar Programs:
Science and engineering graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty gain the knowledge and skills they need to move environmentally sustainable research out of the laboratory and into the world.
Experienced entrepreneurs and executives enroll in an entrepreneurial development program to rapidly transition into New England's clean energy sector.
Background:
History teaches us a little-known lesson about innovation: Ideas don't matter. Good ideas languish all the time.
The Obama administration has made it a priority to find new ways for the government to partner with private organizations in solving shared problems. Read the summary report from the May 17, 2010 Energy Innovation Conference.
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