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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; Figure 1. Historical and Forecasted C...

3. Trends in Energy Research and Development Spending A Period of Reduced Energy R&D Spending from Mid-1980's to Early 2000's; Renewed Public and Private RD&D Activity in Recent Years; Figure 4. Public Energy R&D Spending vs. Oil Price; The Increasing Role of Rapidly Growing Client Countries in Ener...

The "Valley of Death" between Public- and Private-Sector Development Figure 5. The "Valley of Death" between Public and Private Sector Development Activities; The "Mountain of Death" of Technology Costs; Figure 6. The "Mountain of Death": The Rise and Decline of Technology Costs through Commercializ...

Figure 7. Global Investment in Sustainable Energy by Type and Region, 2006 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 f...

Table 3. AMC Donors Commitments for a Pneumococcal Vaccine Biotechnology and the Human Genome Project (HGP); Table 4. Human Genome Project Funding (US millions); Open Source Software, Creation Networks, and Distributed Innovation; 6. Lessons Learned; Bridging the "Valley of Death"; Pooling Resources...

Setting Goals without Picking Winners