ENERGY INNOVATION
As BrightSource Energy adds cutting-edge molten salt storage to its new solar plants, the choice between clean energy and cheap energy is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
INNOVATION POLICY
President Obama’s State of the Union address demonstrated the importance of science, innovation, and economic competitiveness to a prosperous and growing middle class.
INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
A proposal to elevate the Department of Commerce by consolidating federal trade, technology, workforce training, and economic development programs into one department with one mission: national competitiveness through innovation.
PROCESS INNOVATION
A humble process innovation could reduce cost and increase efficiency of thermoelectric materials used to recycle waste heat in cars, refrigerators, and other machines.
INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
A new series of policy reports from Science Progress and the Center for American Progress outline key steps the president and Congress can take to reinvest in the building blocks of American innovation and economic competitiveness.
INNOVATION
Measures to simplify and strengthen the corporate R&D tax credit can help make the most of the spillover benefits of innovation and enhance economic competitiveness.
SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION
Encouraging the commercialization of ideas and easing the path from paper, to patent, to product for new technologies would have major benefits for small businesses.
NET NEUTRALITY
While the FCC’s open internet rules have attracted criticism for being both too weak and too stringent, Andrea Peterson and Lauren Simenauer take a look at what’s really at stake in the net neutrality debate.
TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
In the latest installment of CAP’s “Big Ideas for Small-Business Policy” series, Sean Pool and Ed Paisley address changes to existing policy that help start up firms with high growth potential create jobs through the commercialization of new technology.
SMARTGRID INNOVATION
The third article in our “Hottest Issues in Smart Grid” Series looks at the relationships between electric vehicle adoption, infrastructure, and the future of the smart grid.
SMARTGRID INNOVATION
The second article in a series examining the debates around the Smart Grid looks at the dilemma of setting technical standards needed to guide markets and innovation.
BIOTECH INNOVATION
A new report reviews the status of biotech innovation clusters across the country and the world. The report shows potential for biotech innovation and job creation in emerging clusters from Houston to Atlanta to Indianapolis if we can get the policy right.
SMARTGRID INNOVATION
Part one in our series on smart grid innovation highlights one core challenge: harmonizing the need to secure the increasing amount of personal energy consumption data with the ability to use that data to useful ends.
INNOVATION
An innovative “upstart” company is marketing a new technology to help reduce the 7 billion gallons of drinking water that are wasted each day, showing that profit and social good can go hand in hand.
JOBS AND INNOVATION
A small but promising new federal program aims to help the private sector create thousands of jobs by helping small business, institutions of higher learning, and regional economic development agencies collaborate to innovate.
PROCESS INNOVATION
Humble “process innovations” like the DOE’s new Optical Cavity Furnace don’t get much attention, but are in fact among the most important parts of the solution to climate challenges.
INNOVATION
In the case of research and development, some gambling is not only good but necessary, say top Energy Department officials David Sandalow and Arun Majumdar.
INNOVATION
Applying Eric S. Raymond’s approach to software development to university innovation, Kurman argues we need both the cathedral–formal technology licensing–and the bazaar–informal, open-source exchanges of knowledge–for innovation to thrive in universities.
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
First DARPA, then ARPA-E, now… ARPA-Ed? On Wednesday the Senate HELP committee will discuss whether or not to create a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education.
INNOVATION
The jobs of today came from the innovation of yesterday. Leaders of both parties should be discussing how we can invest in innovation today to create the jobs of tomorrow.
Science Progress and American Progress's Doing What Works project teamed up to produce a set of policy proposals that the Obama administration and Congress can adopt to reinvest in the building blocks of American science, innovation, and economic competitiveness. Read the overview of the five reports.
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