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Replacing tedium with transformation: why the US Department of Energy needs to change the way it conducts long-term R&D
To avoid promoting technologies that merely produce incremental change, the US Department of Energy needs to establish a new organization designed to focus on transformational R&D projects. From its inception in 1977, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has been responsible for maintaining the nation's nuclear stockpile, leading the country in terms of basic research, setting national energy goals, and managing thousands of individual programs. Despite these responsibilities, however, the DOE research and development (R&D) model does not appear to offer the nation an optimal strategy for assessing long-term energy challenges. American energy policy continues to face constraints related to an overly rigid management structure and loss of mission within the DOE, layers of stove-piping within and between the national laboratories, and inadequate public and private funding for energy R&D. To address these concerns, an independent organization dedicated to transformative, creative energy R&D is required.
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Energy PolicyISSN
0301-4215Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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3Volume
36Page range
923-928Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2015-12-02Usage metrics
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