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@ITIFdc Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation
David Jetta Paul Jennifer Adam
Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology Commercialization - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology Commercialization - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Mind the Gap: A Design for a New Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation Jetta L. Wong David M. Hart May 13, 2020 Questions? Submit via www.sli.do using code: #ITIFenergytech @jetta_wong @ProfDavidHart @ITIFdc Mind the Gap: A Design
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About ITIF
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Independent, nonpartisan research and education institute focusing on intersection of technological innovation and public policy, including: –
Innovation and competitiveness
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IT and data
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Telecommunications
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Trade and globalization
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Life sciences and agricultural biotech
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Clean energy innovation ▪
Formulates and promotes policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth,
- pportunity, and progress
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World’s top think tank for science and technology policy, according to the University of Pennsylvania’s authoritative Global Go To Think Tank Index
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Contents
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Project Goals and Process, Foundation Concept, and Problem Collaboration Strategies and Commercialization Activities Next Steps
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Project Goals and Process
▪ Understand how a Department of Energy Foundation (DOEF) should be
- rganized and operated.
▪ Share this understanding with and build support, if appropriate, for it among key
stakeholders in a future DOEF.
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Agency-Related Foundations: What makes them special?
Everyday Implementation of Congressional Authorization
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Direct connection to agency
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Public-private partnerships
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Flexible and fast
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“Official” imprimatur or prestige
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Opportunities are immense b/c it is a 501(c)3 and not a federal agency
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Non-federal contract mechanisms
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Energy Technology Commercialization Foundation
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▪ Mission: Strengthen U.S.
competitiveness in a carbon- constrained world.
▪ Funding: One-time $30M and
$3M/yr appropriation, nongovernmental donors
▪ Governance: Independent Public
Charity structured to re-grant.
▪ Functions: Collaboration Strategies
and Commercialization Activities
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The Problem
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Government- Funded Academic and Lab Research Private-Sector Investment and Activities
Invention Translation Adoption Diffusion
Process of Technological Innovation Resources
Valley of Death
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U.S. Department of Energy – Network of Expertise and Partners
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Source: DOE.
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Philanthropic Funding Basic Science and Energy and Climate Policy and Advocacy
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Adapted from a DOE EERE slide on Energy Innovation Ecosystems.
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President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Process of Technological Change
“The government historically performs much less well at translation, adoption, and diffusion… partly because energy sector decision-making is ultimately in the hands of the private sector.”
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Source: PCAST, Accelerating the Pace of Change in Energy Technologies Through an Integrated Federal energy Policy, 2010.
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GAO Study Federal Government Constraints: General Management Policies
▪ Budget preparation, review, and approval ▪ Strategic and performance planning ▪ Budget execution and funds control ▪ Control of improper payments ▪ Internal control and accounting systems ▪ Preparing and reporting of audited
financial statements
▪ Standards of conduct ▪ Whistleblower protection ▪ Access to public records ▪ Availability of federal contract and grant
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▪ Access to public meetings
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Source: US GAO, Federally Created Entities: An Overview of Specific Attributes (Washington: GAO, October 2009, 2).
Congress Established Over 200 Entities to Overcome these Constraints
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Government- Funded Academic and Lab Research Private-Sector Investment and Activities
Collaboration Strategies
Invention Translation Adoption Diffusion
Process of Technological Innovation Resources
ETCF: Collaboration Strategies
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2000 Sandia starts desalination work
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2002 Congressional action b/c of drought
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2009-2012 1/3 of the county in drought
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2012-2014 DOE Water Energy Tech-Team Initiative
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2017 DOE Request for Desal Hub
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2019 DOE Awards Desal Hub 20 Year Journey to Establish a DOE Desalination Hub
Collaboration Strategy National Cross-cutting Challenges: We can do better!
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Source: U.S. Drought Monitor. National Drought Mitigation Center.
Why wait! We can do better! Decarbonizing the Marine transportation Sector
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“Support the development of technologies that solve ocean problems…and have strong commercialization potential
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Provide funding for scale-up and development
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Goal is to tailor assistance to the needs of each group to help them move their ideas across the dreaded Valley of Death”
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Collaboration Strategy Regional Energy Innovation Ecosystems: Need more Resources!
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Source: Brookings-Battelle Clean Economy Database An establishment in a given segment is defined to be in a cluster if other establishments in the same county comprised at least one percent of all U.S. employment for the given segment.
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Commercialization Activities
Training & Education Maturation Funding Access to Facilities and Expertise Convening and Stakeholder Engagement
Government- Funded Academic and Lab Research Industrial Investment and Activities
Invention Translation Adoption Diffusion
Process of Technological Innovation Resources
ETCF: Commercialization Activities
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ETCF: Governance - Connectivity to DOE is key!
▪ Public Law ▪ Agency-affiliated
precedents
– Orders and internal
regulations
– Liaisons – Secretarial POC
▪ DOE does NOT have
Veto Power over ETCF
▪ Trusted Relationships
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
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Next Steps: Fiscal Year 2020 Congressional Appropriation
DOE to work with the National Academy for Public Administration to conduct study on a nonprofit foundation
▪ Advance DOE’s mission of addressing the nation’s energy challenges ▪ Assessment of comparable foundations at other Federal agencies ▪ Focused on structure and governance and how to work with the
private sector
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Next Steps: ITIF
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Urgency Compels Action…
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