By analyzing the institutions that have been created to stimulate energy technology innovation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China—three countries with very different sizes, political
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, the world seems troubled, from the Hamas-Israel stand-off in Gaza to Syria’s bloody civil war to the recent fighting in Congo.
Iron Dome, Israel’s rocket defense system, fundamentally altered the dynamic between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza.
A key attribute of China's diplomacy in recent years is its increasing presence in Africa.
Probabilistic estimates of the cost and performance of future nuclear energy systems under different scenarios of government research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) spending were obtained
In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration.
This paper investigates the conditions under which firms are able to develop and implement innovations with sustainable development benefits.
A startling new United Nations Population Fund report projects that in 2050 there will be more people over the age of 60 than those under 15.
The transportation of hazardous materials is vital to the U.S. economy and inherently dangerous.
In The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, author Jon Gertner describes, in a new and compelling way, the inner workings of arguably one of the greatest industrial resear
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