The National Academies is convening a series of workshops to examine barriers and highlight successful strategies for accelerating clean energy innovation across the federal government. These events will feature timely, action-oriented assessments of how to strengthen demand for new clean energy technologies and facilitate cross-agency and cross-sector collaboration to solve today’s energy challenges.
Session 7:
Clean energy innovation entails both competition and cooperation with other countries. U.S. policy must balance these twin imperatives across diverse technologies and sectors as well as in basic research and discovery science. Topics for discussion in this session include how to: coordinate RD&D and demand-pull policies, especially for hard-to-decarbonize sectors; foster resilient and secure supply chains; protect intellectual property without stifling innovation; balance domestic job creation with global efficiencies; and avoid “lock-in” of inferior technologies. Overarching all of these difficult issues is the future of the international institutional architecture for clean energy innovation.
1:00 PM ET Framing Remarks: Laura Diaz Anadon, University of Cambridge
1:20 PM ET Panel Discussion:
- Willy Shih, Harvard Business School
- John Melo, Amyris
- Varun Sivaram, Columbia University
Moderator: David Hart, George Mason University
2:30 PM ET Adjourn