Structuring an energy technology revolution / Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-300) and index.

1. Introduction -- Demand-Side Measures by Themselves Will Be Insufficient -- 2. An Integrated Innovation Policy Model for Energy Technology -- Three Theories of Innovation -- Integrated Innovation in Energy Technology -- The Four-Step Analytic Framework -- 3. Promoting Development and Adoption of New Energy Technology -- The Multiple-Strand Problem in Technology Policy -- The Economic Justification for Public Intervention -- Defining Terms -- Step 1: Different Launch Pathways for Different Technologies -- Step 2: Matching Launch Pathways to Policy Packages -- The Need for Policy Coherence -- 4. Toward a Roadmap for Launching Technological Innovation in Energy -- Experimental Technologies Requiring Long-Range Research -- Disruptive Technologies: Potentially Disruptive Technological Innovations Launched in Niche Markets -- Secondary Innovations - Uncontested Launch: Secondary (Component) Technologies That Will Face Immediate Competition on Launch but Are Acceptable to Recipient Industries -- Secondary Innovations - Contested Launch: Secondary (Component) Technologies with an Inherent Cost Disadvantage, Facing Political and/or Nonmarket Economic Opposition -- Incremental Innovations for Conservation and End-Use Efficiency -- Manufacturing Production Scale-Up and Generic Process Improvements -- 5. Energy R&D and Implementation: What Is the Right Level of Funding and Where Will the Money Come From? -- What Are the Right Energy R&D and Implementation Numbers? -- Cap and Trade as a Potential Source of Funding for R&D and Implementation? -- 6. Institutional Gaps in the Mechanisms of Support for Different Stages of Innovation -- Step 3: Identifying the Institutional Gaps -- Step 4: Filling the Gaps -- Summary of New Institutional Arrangements to Meet Energy Innovation Gaps -- Will New Energy Technology Provide Economic Gains? Will It Create New Functionality? -- 7. All Pumping Together? Prospects for International Collaboration -- The Growing Role of China and India -- Mechanisms for International Coordination -- Where Will Energy Innovation Leadership Come From? -- Collaboration on Innovation -- 8. Political Prospects and Conclusions -- The Politics of Energy Innovation -- The Problem of Pork -- Conclusion: Achieving a Revolution in Energy Technology.