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National Renewable Energy Lab Quickens its Tech Transfer Efforts

Innovations and "aha" movements in renewable energy and energy efficiency, while exciting in the lab, only truly live up to their promise once they find a place in homes or business. Late last year President Obama issued a directive to all federal agencies to increase their efforts to transfer technologies to the private sector in order to achieve greater societal and economic impacts of federal research investments.

http://www.nrel.gov/

The president’s call to action includes efforts to establish technology transfer goals and to measure progress, to engage in efforts to increase the speed of technology transfer and to enhance local and regional innovation partnerships. But, even before the White House began its initiative to restructure the commercialization process, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory had a major effort underway designed to increase the speed and impact of technology transfer activities and had already made sure its innovations had a streamlined path to the private sector.

By: Heather Lammers

Full Story: http://www.innovation-america.org/nrel-quickens-its-tech-transfer-efforts

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