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NREL: 46 Patents, One Fiscal Year

NREL innovations fuel new energy technologies.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

What is your technology, what is innovative about it, and how will it change the world? These are the initial questions the innovation management team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) asks researchers when they have new inventions with commercialization potential. Researchers submit their innovative ideas as records of invention (ROI) or software records, thus initiating a collaborative review and discussion with members of NREL’s Technolo...

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