{"id":244,"date":"2020-06-29T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:18:19","slug":"innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/apex\/2020\/innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing the performance of technology development programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Enhancing the performance of technology development programs\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Since the conclusion of World War II, policymakers in the U.S. have maintained a broad and firm consensus regarding the critical role that government-supported innovation plays in that nation&#8217;s welfare. For a number of reasons, however, the pillars of American innovation are under threat at a time when urgent challenges require government to make large, near-term investments in innovative technologies. The size of these investments and the uncertainty inherent in the process deter private funding and render government support essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are large uncertainties about which innovation management strategies perform best when it comes to government-supported technology development. In the case of energy, Richard Lester of MIT and David Hart of George Mason <a href=\"https:\/\/issues.org\/closing-the-energy-demonstration-gap-2\/\">have noted<\/a>, &#8220;today there is no agreed framework for federal involvement in these activities. This is one of the most serious gaps in the current U.S. energy innovation system\u2013especially for large-scale technologies where public risk and cost-sharing at the demonstration stage is unavoidable&#8221;. We are extending the methods of applied machine learning and quantitative decision science to investigate how best to structure technology development programs supported by the U.S. government. Program outcomes are driven not only by technical risk and cost, but also by organizational behavior. Therefore, we adopt a pandisciplinary approach to assessing the impact on program outcomes of different innovation management strategies, as embodied within different organizational structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aa7f10\/meta\">Abdulla A, Ford MJ Morgan MG, Victor DG (2017) A retrospective analysis of funding and focus in U.S. advanced fission innovation.&nbsp;<em>Environmental Research Letters<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>12<\/strong>, 084016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0301421517303506\">Ford MJ, Abdulla A, Morgan MG, Victor DG (2017) Expert assessments of the state of U.S. advanced fission innovation. <em>Energy Policy<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>108<\/strong>, 194-200.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the conclusion of World War II, policymakers in the U.S. have maintained a broad and firm consensus regarding the critical role that government-supported innovation plays in that nation&#8217;s welfare. 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