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