INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The JOBS Act seeks to accelerate the rise of Internet-enabled “crowdfunding” as a source of startup capital for entrepreneurs. But the gains may be countered by major growing pains.
ENERGY INNOVATION
A new report from the prominent global consulting firm McKinsey shows how process improvements and incremental technology innovation have brought solar photovoltaics to a tipping point.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
The White House today released the long-awaited National Bioeconomy Blueprint, which summarizes emergent trends in biotechnology, and contains five strategic imperatives for government policy moving forward.
INVESTING IN INNOVATION
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has put together a handy brief explaining the differences in R&D investment levels in the Obama administration’s proposed FY 2013 budget and the House GOP proposed budget.
ENERGY INNOVATION
A new report from Third Way compares the technological myopia that bankrupted Kodak for failing to anticipate the shift to digital photography and imaging, to the shortsightedness of U.S. clean energy innovation policy.
ENERGY INNOVATION
Despite hopeful proclamations of game-changing innovation at this year’s ARPA-E summit, our national clean energy policy remains an insufficient balance of proaction and compromise with the status quo.
INNOVATION
Structural, cultural, and other barriers often prevent university research from fulfilling its full economic potential, leaving opportunities for policy and the private sector to engage.
INNOVATION
The new BusinessUSA.gov portal is a key first step in bringing scattered federal programs together in one place to be more effective in helping business and spurring American innovation.
INVESTING IN INNOVATION
At a recent event at the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Dr. Sybil Francis and Dr. Gregg Zachary discussed best practices for managing competition among and between federal research programs.
ENERGY INNOVATION
The Department of Energy loan guarantee program, much vilified in the fallout of the Solyndra scandal, will cost $2 billion less than expected and is working to create clean energy jobs all across the country.
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.
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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