Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors.

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Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors, edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell, will be available from the University of Chicago Press this spring for $99.00.

This NBER Conference Report explores the roles of public and private policy in enabling and sustaining innovation in a variety of industries, from agriculture and the life sciences to information technology. he book includes chapters highlighting the factors that have determined the impact of past policies. The research results reported here suggest that effectively managed federal funding, strategies for increasing customer demand, and enabling aggressive competition from new firms are all important for encouraging innovative activity.

Henderson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Productivity and Heinz Professor of...