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Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors
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ISBN-10:
0226326837
ISBN-13:
9780226326832
Pub. Date:
05/30/2011
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226326837
ISBN-13:
9780226326832
Pub. Date:
05/30/2011
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Overview

Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public and private policy have played in enabling—and sustaining—swift innovation in a variety of industries, from agriculture and the life sciences to information technology. Chapters highlight the factors that have determined the impact of past policies, and suggest that effectively managed federal funding, strategies to increase customer demand, and the enabling of aggressive competition from new firms are important ingredients for policies that affect innovative activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226326832
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 05/30/2011
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Rebecca M. Henderson is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School and a research associate of the NBER. Richard G. Newell is Administrator of the US Energy Information Administration, on leave from both the NBER and Duke University, where he is the Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction and Summary Rebecca M. Henderson Richard G. Newell 1

1 The Energy Innovation System: A Historical Perspective Richard G. Newell 25

2 Agricultural Innovation Tiffany Shih Brian Wright 49

3 Implications for Energy Innovation from the Chemical Industry Ashish Arora Alfonso Gambardella 87

4 Finding the Endless Frontier: Lessons from the Life Sciences Innovation System for Energy R&D Iain M. Cockburn Scott Stern Jack Zausner 113

5 Federal Policy and the Development of Semiconductors, Computer Hardware, and Computer Software: A Policy Model for Climate Change R&D? David C. Mowery 159

6 Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations: Lessons from the Internet Shane Greenstein 189

7 Venture Capital and Innovation in Energy Josh Lerner 225

Contributors 261

Author Index 263

Subject Index 269

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