Transforming Energy Innovation

Issues in Science and Technology (forthcoming Fall 2009, v26 n1 pp. 57-64) by Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, Laura Diaz Anadon and Ambuj D. Sagar [published elsewhere on the Belfer Center website as, "Institutions for Energy Innovation: A Transformational Challenge" .]
http://tinyurl.com/ydx8r78
[Abstract] “The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from [...]

Why Clean Energy Public Investment Makes Economic Sense – The Evidence Base

Management Information Services
http://sev.prnewswire.com/oil-energy/20080923/DC3467323092008-1.html 
[From press release]  The main beneficiaries of more than $700 billion of federal energy incentives over the past five decades have been the oil and natural gas industries, a new study reveals. The oil and natural gas industries together garnered 60 percent of federal incentives between 1950 and 2006, with 46 percent of the [...]

The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, and Federal Energy Technology R&D Programs : A Comparative Analysis

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34645/
[Summary]  Some policymakers have concluded that the energy challenges facing the United States are so critical that a concentrated investment in energy research and development (R&D) should be undertaken. The Manhattan project, which produced the atomic bomb, and the Apollo program, which landed American men on the moon, have been cited as examples [...]

Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) : Background, Status, and Selected Issues for Congress

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34497/
[Summary] In August 2007, Congress authorized the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the America COMPETES Act (P.L. 110-69). Modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ARPA-E would support transformational energy technology research projects with the goal [...]

The National Nanotechnology Initiative : Overview, Reauthorization, and Appropriations Issues

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/RL34401/
[Summary] Nanotechnology, a term encompassing the science, engineering, and applications of submicron materials involves the harnessing of unique physical, chemical, and biological properties of nanoscale substances in fundamentally new and useful ways. The economic and societal promise of nanotechnology has led to substantial and sustained investments by governments and companies around the world. [...]

Tackling U.S. Energy Challenges and Opportunities : Preliminary Policy Recommendations for Enhancing Energy Innovation in The United States

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard University / by Laura Diaz Anadon, Kelly Sims, Matthew Bunn and Charles Jones
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/18826/tackling_us_energy_challenges_and_opportunities.html
[Summary]  The incoming Obama Administration and the 111th Congress face enormous challenges and opportunities in tackling the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems posed by the energy sector in the United States and worldwide. Improving the technologies of [...]

Catalysis for Energy : Fundamental Science and Long-Term Impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Science Program

National Academy Press
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12532
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[Summary]  This book presents an in-depth analysis of the investment in catalysis basic research by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Catalysis Science Program. Catalysis is essential to our ability to control chemical reactions, including those involved in energy transformations. Catalysis is therefore [...]

Transportation Research : The Department of Transportation Has Made Progress in Coordinating and Reviewing Its Research Activities

Government Accountability Office
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09361t.pdf?source=ra
[Summary] In 2004, Congress created DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) to coordinate and review the department’s RD&T programs and activities for the purposes of reducing research duplication, enhancing opportunities for joint efforts, and ensuring RD&T activities are meeting goals. In 2006 GAO reported that RITA had made progress toward these ends, [...]

Energy Discovery-Innovation Institutes : a Step toward America’s Energy Sustainability

Brookings Institution / by James Duderstadt, Mark Muro, Gary Was, Andrea Sarzynski, Robert McGrath, Michael Corradini,  Linda Katehi and Rick Shangraw
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/0209_energy_innovation_muro.aspx?rssid=LatestFromBrookings
[Abstract]  The need to renew America’s economy, foster its energy security, and respond to global climate change compels the transformation of U.S. energy policy. Innovation and its commercialization must move to the center of national [...]

Energy Policy Act of 2005 : Summary and Analysis of Enacted Provisions

Congressional Research Service
http://opencrs.com/document/RL33302
[Abstract.]  The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58), signed by President Bush August 8, 2005, was the first omnibus energy legislation enacted in more than a decade. Major provisions include tax incentives for domestic energy production and energy efficiency, a mandate to double the nation’s use of biofuels, repeal of restrictions on [...]