R&D Advancement, Technology Diffusion, and Impact on Evaluation of Public R&D

Michal C. Moore; Douglas J. Arent; Douglas Norland

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.009

R&D Advancement, Technology Diffusion, and Impact on Evaluation of Public R&D

Michal C. Moore, Douglas J. Arent, Douglas Norland

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Abstract

In a 2001 report titled Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It? a National Research Council (NRC) committee defined a set of simplifying rules to estimate the net economic benefits from technologies supported by the Department of Energy (DOE). We evaluate the efficacy of the NRC rules compared to published literature on acceleration of technology introduction into markets, technology diffusion, and infrastructure change. We also offer considerations for revisions of the rules that call for the use of technology and sector-specific data, advanced forecasting techniques, and sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of the methodology.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	1464-1473
Number of pages	10
Journal	Energy Policy
Volume	35
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.009 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.009
State	Published - 2007

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NREL/JA-640-39756

Keywords

Economic-benefits evaluation
Market penetration
Product innovations

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