Alternative Energy/IP Profile of Universities working in AE

Answer the questions:

What are the 5 top Universities in this field?

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Correlate them with their main outputs (Data. Narratives. Tools)

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Understand and identify cases where these universities are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons based approach. Are they adopting OA policies, for instance? Are they adopting Social Responsible License approaches?

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Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants)

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Identify what universities are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field (Use the questionnaire to guide your research when appropriate - Carol will select specific relevant questions)

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Background for Questions:

The Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC)

The EFRCs are 46 Centers established at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation that are funded by the DoE and the Office of Basic Energy Science (BES) to accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs needed to create advanced energy technologies for the 21st century. The EFRCs will pursue the fundamental understanding necessary to meet the global need for abundant, clean, and economical energy.

• What are the goals that the DoE/BES hopes to attain with these grants?

• Is there any strategy and a timeline around these grants?

The EFRCs are funded at $2-5 million per year each for a planned initial five-year period. The grants are renewable for a second 5 year period.

• How many centers applied?

A pool of some 260 applications was received in response to a solicitation issued in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science.

• What are the criteria for selection as an EFRC?

• is there any coordination among the centers that is suggested/mandated by EFRC?

• how the grants treat the knowledge and the IP coming from these centers research?

• does the EFRC ask for any privileged access/use of the knowledge/IP coming from these grants?

• does the EFRC ask the centers to communicate/coordinate in any fashion among each other and with the EFRC...? such like grantees meetings/conferences/workshops?

• does the EFRC ask/suggest/mandates open access such as the NIH policy?

• does the EFRC ask/suggest.mandates that the Centers grant research exemptions for the other centers-grantees?

University Trends

Big Oil putting more money into alternative energy programs
"cash-strapped universities are finding themselves more and more dependent on oil dollars for funding"
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/spotlight/39338

Leading Solar Power Universities

University of Michigan‚ Center for Sustainable Systems at the School of Natural Resources and Environment

• Home page: http://css.snre.umich.edu/
• Renewable Energy: http://css.snre.umich.edu/main.php?dataTable=projects&format=formats_proj.htm&sortField=unsorted&sortOrder=ASC&selectType=contains&selectOperator=&pr_project_id=&pr_research_sector_sub=&pr_research_sector=ENERGY&pr_keyword=*&pr_project_title=&pr_research_team=*&pr_project_sponsor=*&rangeStart=1&max=10&currentAction=find&firstTime=

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT Energy Initiative

• "The MIT Energy Initiative pairs the Institute's world-class research teams with key players across the innovation spectrum to help accomplish two important goals: improving today's energy systems and creating tomorrow's global energy marketplace."
• Home Page: http://web.mit.edu/mitei/index.html
• Many important discoveries in the field of solar photovoltaic electricity production.

Colorado State University, Solar Energy Applications Laboratory

• http://www.colostate.edu/Orgs/SEAL/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Solar Energy Laboratory

• "The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering's Solar Energy Lab (SEL) is the oldest of its kind in the world."
• http://sel.me.wisc.edu/

Leading Wind Power Universities

University of North Dakota: Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)

• "EERC is a research, development, demonstration, and commercialization facility"
• "EERC receives no state-appropriated funding, and the majority of EERC contracts are with nonfederal entities."
• http://www.undeerc.org/
• http://www.undeerc.org/wind/

University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: The Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (RERL)

• http://www.ceere.org/rerl/

Texas Tech University, Wind Science and Engineering Research Center

• http://www.wind.ttu.edu/index.php

Leading Tidal Power Universities

Oregon State University, The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

• "The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) is a DOE-funded partnership between Oregon State University and the University of Washington.
• U.S. Department of Energy Announcement: http://www.energy.gov/news/6554.htm
• http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2008/Sep08/waves.html
  

University of Washington, The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center

• http://depts.washington.edu/nnmrec/
  

University of Hawaii, National Renewable Marine Energy Center

• Press Release: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/uhmnews2?20080924115400

University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy Research Center

• http://www.uaf.edu/acep/facilities/alaska-hydrokinetic-energ/

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