Six Principles for Energy Innovation

Recommended Citation:

Chan, Gabriel, Anna P. Goldstein, Amitai Bin-nun, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "Six principles for energy innovation." Nature 552, no. 7683 (2017): 25-27.

Summary

Researchers propose six guiding principles to make policy initiatives for energy innovation work:

  1. Give researchers and technical experts autonomy and influence over funding decisions.

  2. Incorporate technology transfer in research organizations.

  3. Focus demonstration projects on learning.

  4. Incentivize international collaboration.

  5. Adopt an adaptive learning strategy.

  6. Keep funding stable and predictable.

Keywords

energy policy, energy innovation, Department of Energy

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