Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, and Deployment : Lessons from Non-energy Sectors

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Climate Change and the Need for New Clean Energy Technologies -- The Growing Global Concern about the Threat of Climate Change -- Clean Energy Technology Options -- The Need for New and Improved Clean Energy Technologies -- 3. Trends in Energy Research and Development Spending -- A Period of Reduced Energy R&D Spending from Mid-1980s to Early 2000s -- Renewed Public and Private RD&D Activity in Recent Years -- The Increasing Role of Rapidly Growing Client Countries in Energy RD&D -- The Limits of Renewed Energy RD&D Activity -- 4. Barriers to the Development and Deployment of Clean Energy Technologies -- Negative Externality of Carbon Emissions Is Difficult to Valuate -- Climate Change Mitigation Is a Global Public Good -- The "Valley of Death" between Public- and Private-Sector Development -- The "Mountain of Death" of Technology Costs -- Technology Needs of Developing Countries Are Not Adequately Served -- Intellectual Property Right Protection is a Concern -- The Network Structure of the Electricity Sector Limits Integration of New Technology -- National Interests Can Impede International Collaboration -- Energy RD&D Can Require Large, Sunk Capital Investments -- The Commodity Nature of Electricity -- "Carbon Lock-in," Subsidies, and Barriers to Trade -- Imperfect and Asymmetric Information -- 5. Case Studies of Technical Innovation from other Sectors -- Agriculture and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) -- Vaccines and Advanced Market Commitments (AMCs) -- Biotechnology and the Human Genome Project (HGP) -- Open Source Software, Creation Networks, and Distributed Innovation -- 6. Lessons Learned -- Bridging the "Valley of Death".