Clean energy entrepreneurs attend boot camp
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2016 - Last week, 14 teams
of researchers from seven Energy Department (DOE) national laboratories
convened at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, to
begin a seven-week Lab-Corps
clean energy entrepreneurial boot camp. The training will focus on the
commercialization of sustainable transportation, renewable power and energy
efficiency technologies.
DOE says that Lab-Corps aims to accelerate the transfer of
clean energy technologies from national labs to the marketplace by training and
empowering national lab researchers to transition their discoveries into
high-impact, real world technologies in the private sector.
The program’s specialized technology accelerator and
training curriculum allows the lab-based teams to gain direct market feedback
on their technologies and pursue the development of startup companies, industry
partnerships, licensing agreements and other business opportunities. The teams also
receive access to commercialization resources, including technology validation
and testing, facility access, techno-economic analysis and other incubation
services.
The Lab-Corps program leverages the scientific expertise and
entrepreneurial spirit at U.S. national labs to bring new lab technologies to
market that advance American leadership in clean energy, a key part of
President Obama's Lab-to-Market
Initiative, says DOE.
Lab-Corps is part of the Energy Department’s National
Laboratory Impact Initiative. The $2.3 million Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Lab-Corps pilot, started in 2014, has already
trained 14 national lab teams. This is the second round of clean energy
entrepreneurship trainings, based on the “successful National Science
Foundation's Innovation
Corps model,” says DOE. If the pilot proves successful, the new model will
be considered for expansion across the Energy Department’s entire national lab
enterprise.
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