BOSTON--Even with the excitement ARPA-E generates for its energy research, more people are questioning how to get those innovations out of labs and into the market at large scale.
The Advanced Research Program Agency-Energy was modeled on DARPA, which is considered a successful model of using the Department of Defense to fund new technology research. But the key difference in energy is that researchers don't have a ready customer in the DOD willing to buy or further enhance the fruits of government-funded work.
ARPA-E is seeking to improve its research programs to increase the chances that a breakthrough technology will actually be produced at scale, said Ilan Gur, a senior commercialization advisor at ARPA-E today here at the Lux Executive Summit. Specifically, ARPA-E program managers garner input from industrial companies to better ensure that grant programs address a market need.
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What? You mean now? Like right now? Uh, levitating unicycles, no, wait, monster segways… oh man, I can’t do this! I’m just not the creative type…
Bouncing from brainstorm to brainstorm as we often do in this line of work, I am constantly struck by how many people are convinced that they just don’t have the “creativity gene”. The belief that “some have it, others don’t” is pervasive.
In truth, this makes sense. It’s common knowledge that creativity is, in essence, taught out of us once we start school – “Here’s the way to do this...” And, when we are put on the spot and told to exercise our creative powers on-demand, we tend to perform poorly. Who wants to go through that? I know if that was my main exposure to “creative thinking” then I’d rather suppress any creative capacity than repeatedly put myself through that pressure-riddled brain-racking.
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