Invention and Innovation – Key to keeping Photovoltaic R&amp;D in the United States

Doug Hall

doi:10.1364/FREEFORM.2013.JT1A.3

Renewable Energy and the Environment
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
paper JT1A.3
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FREEFORM.2013.JT1A.3

Invention and Innovation – Key to keeping Photovoltaic R&D in the United States

Doug Hall

Freeform Optics 2013

Tucson, Arizona United States
3–7 November 2013
ISBN: 978-1-55752-986-2

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Abstract

The photovoltaic industry, like other technology-based industries, has undergone a massive migration out of the US. To ensure participation of US-based manufacturing companies in this important technology (and US-based R&D), we need innovation, not just invention.

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