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Innovative Pathways Funding Opportunity seeks new ways to alleviate some of the common structural challenges facing promising new energy technologies on the pathway to market.
Watch Tech-to-Market Director Dr. Johanna Wolfson discuss how we're re-imagining clean energy innovation in her DOE EnergyTalk.
DOE Lab-Corps helps scientists at our national labs turn their innovations into tangible industry solutions. Watch as industry leaders and faculty talk about the value and impact of the program.
The Energy Department selected Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop and pilot training with over a dozen partners to help cleantech startups advance prototypes into scalable products.
American leadership in energy innovation is key to growing the domestic economy, creating jobs, and ensuring energy security. But underlying structural challenges continue to weaken the American innovation ecosystem, limiting the economic return on research and development (R&D) investments.
EERE's Tech-to-Market Program is focused on strengthening the innovation ecosystem by eliminating common barriers that prevent market exploration of new energy technologies. We don't fund individual technologies. Instead we are reimagining the pathway to market for competitive clean energy technologies by addressing two interrelated areas:
Market Readiness
Many innovations never go beyond the lab, despite billions invested in next-generation clean energy technologies each year. At the same time, there is increasing demand for private sector access to emerging technologies in order to remain competitive in the global marketplace. Tech-to-Market programs bring the business mindset into the lab and increase collaboration with industry so that American innovations can be evaluated by the market.
PROGRAMS: DOE Lab-Corps, Cleantech University Prize (Cleantech UP), Build4Scale, National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy (NIICE)
Resource Access
The U.S. innovation ecosystem is a cornerstone of American competitiveness—from its top universities and robust national lab system to an entrepreneurial culture and thriving capital markets. But fundamental breakdowns across the ecosystem create barriers that inhibit access to critical resources, stifling innovation. Tech-to-Market programs lower the barriers to the capital and physical resources needed to drive economic growth through energy technology innovation.
PROGRAMS: Small Business Vouchers Pilot (SBV), Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs (SBIR/STTR), Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program