Catalyzing Innovation and Collaboration for Photovoltaics Research and Development: An NSF Workshop

1027337WoldenIntellectual merit该提案旨在赞助一个研讨会，该研讨会将探索在光伏领域刺激创新和建立工业-学术合作伙伴关系的新范例。与会者将包括来自大学、大公司、小公司和国家实验室的光伏研究和产品开发领域的专家和领导者。通过邀请讲座和分组会议的结合，与会者将集思广益光伏未来的技术重点，建立潜在的伙伴关系和合作网络，以加速从学术界到商业市场的技术转移，并提出新的战略，以促进大学，大公司，小企业和国家实验室之间的未来合作。更广泛的影响这个项目的更广泛的影响将有可能成为刺激光伏创新的催化剂。保持太阳能产业的领先地位不仅有利于环境，而且还能在国内创造更多的就业机会。阻碍太阳能电力广泛采用的主要挑战是成本高、可制造性低和/或原材料来源不丰富。这些挑战的最终解决方案取决于光伏技术的不断创新。大学、大公司、小企业和国家实验室之间的研究合作对于确保美国在这一领域处于领先地位至关重要。本次研讨会强调技术转移，将先进技术从研究水平转化为可行的产品，最终推向商业市场，从而实现社会效益和经济效益。

1027337WoldenIntellectual MeritThis proposal aims to sponsor a workshop that will explore new paradigms for stimulating innovation and creating industrial-academic partnerships in the field of photovoltaics. The participants will include experts and leaders in photovoltaics research and product development from universities, large companies, small firms and national laboratories. Through a combination of invited talks and breakout sessions, the participants will brainstorm the future technical emphasis in photovoltaics, build networks for potential partnerships and collaborations to accelerate technology transfer from academia to commercial market, and propose new strategies to foster future collaborations among universities, large companies, small firms and national laboratories. Broader ImpactsThe broader impact of this project will be the potential to serve as a catalyst for stimulating innovations in photovoltaics. Maintaining a leadership in solar industry not only will benefit the environment, but also create more jobs domestically. The major challenges that hinder the wide adoption of solar electricity are the high cost, low manufacturability and/or non-abundant sources of the raw materials. The ultimate solutions to these challenges depend on the continuous innovations in photovoltaics technologies. Research collaborations among universities, large companies, small firms and national laboratories are essential to ensure that US is on the leading edge in this area. This workshop emphasizes on the technology transfer to bring the advance technologies from research level into viable products, and eventually to commercial market, thus realizing societal benefit and economic impact.