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.
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
DARPA’s new $30 million project in “engineering biology” seeks to use synbio to revolutionize American manufacturing and exemplifies how defense research can be leveraged for broader economic benefits.
FINANCING INNOVATION
Michael Gurau, a frequent SP contributor covering the VC beat, recounts his four-hour session with Secretary Vilsack on what the government can do to bring risk capital to underserved rural regions.
Our national R&D funding system, with its arcane and disaggregated system of appropriations is not perfect—but it’s ours.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Innovation in technology has the potential to bring health care services to resource-limited parts of the world, but grant writers often overlook basic local challenges.
PATENT RIGHTS
The Supreme Court’s answer to the question of who owns the products of federally funded research highlights tensions within academic-industrial relationships in research and development.
ENERGY INNOVATION
Stephen Lacey shows us the top five clean energy technologies you’ve never heard of that are integrating clean energy into the grid and exploding the myth that renewables can’t be brought to scale.
ENERGY INNOVATION
A new CAP report outlines how to build low-carbon innovation networks that are greater than the sum of their parts.
NANOTECH INNOVATION
For years, entrepreneurs have faced major obstacles to building advanced energy technology industries in the United States. Is nanotechnology the silver bullet they’ve been looking for?
INVESTING IN INNOVATION
Science and technology are what move our economy forward. Two new studies show the pay off from federal investments in life science innovation is off the charts.
INNOVATION
Five “carrier branch technologies” have driven economic growth over the past three centuries on generational innovation cycles called “kondratiev waves,” according to a recent work of economic history. We need to be prepared to take advantage of the sixth.
INNOVATION
Federal programs work to incentivize high-tech venture capital investment in under-served regions and emerging sectors.
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