MIT to review U.S. energy technology innovation
Date: Thursday, February 07, 2008 @ 23:09:40 GMT
Topic: General


February 7, 2008

A two-year, $2-million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) will enable researchers at the MIT Industrial Performance Center to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the energy technology innovation system in the United States.



Using the DDCF grant, MIT researchers will assess the strengths and weaknesses of this system, and will consider the entire complex of incentives, regulations, markets, and public and private institutions within which the development, demonstration, adoption and diffusion of new energy technologies takes place. Their work will eventually lead to recommendations for improvements to federal and state research, development and demonstration policies, as well as mechanisms for early adoption and large-scale deployment of supply- and demand-side innovations...

More: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ddcf-0207.html






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