"Congress should continue its recent institutional experimentation through measured expansion of such recent start-ups as the Energy Frontier Research Centers, ARPA-E, and Energy Innovation Hubs programs. Two worthy additional experiments would be the creation of a water sciences innovation center and the establishment of a regional clean economy consortia initiative."
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Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment is a report on the clean tech economy published by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in collaboration with Battelle’s Technology Partnership Practice. Their goal: to figure out what’s really going on in “clean economy” industries in the United States. This piece on Green Biz does a good job of breaking it all down, while I was also interested in the report’s advice for how the federal government should think about working with the private sector to spur innovation (above.)
(Story via Adam Aston.)
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