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Objectives

What policies will be necessary and appropriate to achieve Secretary Chu's vision for international collaboration in technology sharing and accelerate the development of innovative technologies to address global climate change?

Possible Out-puts

• Declaration of Principles
• First outline of a white paper
• A series of Publius Essays
• Project papers
• Presentations
• Videos
• Wiki as a hub of information on the Political Economy of AE and Climate Change

Partners

• Cooperation Project at the Berkman Center at Harvard University

• Harvard University Center for the Environment

Possible Dates

12-17th of April 2010

Possible Places

Rooms at Harvard Law (?)

Possible Speakers

• Yochai Benkler - Director Berkman Center, Harvard University
• [ttp://environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/daniel-p-schrag Daniel P. Schrag] - Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Al Gore
• Laura Diaz Anadon - Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
• Thomas Wilbanks - Group Leader

Global Change and Developing Countries Programs, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National and ORNL Corporate Fellow

• Thomas Ackermann - Chief Executive Officer of Energynautics and Royal Institute of Technology
• Peter Mandelstam - American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)and Founder and President of Bluewater Wind
  • A great speaker for the wind industry that I saw speak last year at the Power fo the Gulf Conference [[1]]
  • http://www.bluewaterwind.com/people.htm
• Walt Musial
  • Senior Engineer, National Wind Technology Center
  • He would be great for discussion of technology and government labs
  • https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/commonsbasedresearch/Walt_Musial
• Chris Noble
  • Technology Licensing Officer
  • Clean and renewable energy, MIT Energy Initiative
  • He would be good to talk abotu licensing, patents, and start ups in alternative energy
  • http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/about/our_staff.html
• Bill Sims and David Berry
  • Joule Biotechnologies Inc.
  • They are local innovative researchers and a startup in alternative energy
  • http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/0/24/cambridge_firms_green_energy_source_fuels_speculation/
• We may want to consider members of the external advisory board to the MIT energy initiative
  • http://web.mit.edu/mitei/about/eaboard.html
• Jerome Reichman
  • co-author of Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation
  • http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/reichman/
• Amory Lovins
  • Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an innovative non-profit organization focused on renewable energy policy and scientific advancement.
  • http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid56.php
• Peter Drahos
  • Peter Drahos is Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and the Head of Program of the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University.
  • http://www.anu.edu.au/fellows/pdrahos/
• OTHERS:
  • UNDP people
  • IP people: Rai, Nelson, Sampat, Abbot, Reichman etc etc
  • Ford, OSI,
  • others we have Interviewed
  • Scientists ?
  • Industry ?

Organization Team

• Berkman
  • Yochai Benkler
  • Carolina Rossini
  • Amar Ashar
• Center for the Environment team
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