Replacing tedium with transformation: Why the US Department of Energy needs to change the way it conducts long-term R&D

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 923-928

  Sovacool, Benjamin K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Research and development; Transformational research; US Department of Energy

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

LONG-TERM ENERGY CHALLANGES; TRANSFORMATIONAL RESEARCH;

ENERGY POLICY;

EID: 39149095265     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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