T
he U.S. Department of Energy is markedly stepping up efforts to promote commercialization of new technologies from DOE laboratories nationwide, and New Mexico’s labs are playing a critical role in the process.
Jetta Wong, acting director of the DOE’s new Office of Technology Transitions, said she and other federal representatives have been meeting with executives from the DOE’s 17 national labs to learn more about tech-transfer programs at each and to explore ways to reinforce technology commercialization.
Image: Jetta Wong, DOE Acting director for Technology Transitions, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Sen.Tom Udall, D-N.M., listen to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., during a roundtable discussion on technology transfer in Albuquerque on Wednesday, October 14, 2015. (Greg Sorber/Albuquerque Journal)
