R&D Advancement, Technology Diffusion, and Impact on Evaluation of Public R&D [electronic resource].
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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2005. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
In a 2001 report titled ''Research at DOE: Was It Worth It?'', a National Research Council (NRC) committee defined a set of simplifying rules to estimate the net economic benefits from technologies supported by the Department of Energy (DOE). This NREL paper evaluates the efficacy of the NRC rules compared to published literature on acceleration of technology introduction into markets, technology diffusion, and infrastructure change. It also offers considerations for revisions of the rules that call for the use of technology and sector-specific data, advanced forecasting techniques, and sensitivity analysis to test the robustness of the methodology.
Published through SciTech Connect. 01/01/2005. "nrel/tp-620-37102" Moore, M. C.; Norland, D.; Arent, D. J. National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (US)