Mailing address
One Brattle Square 502
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Charles Jones
Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-0041
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: charles_jones@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Charles (Skuk) Jones studies investments in innovation in the private sector and in public-private partnerships, as part of the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy project. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Massachusetts Boston where he studied the dynamics of the local photovoltaic industry, and an undergraduate degree in physics. Skuk served for nine years in the U.S. Navy in nuclear submarines. Prior to joining ETIP, he was an adjunct professor at UMass Boston College of Management; past research includes work for the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and on business strategies with regard to climate change.
Courtesy of DOE/NREL
January 14, 2010
"U.S. Public Energy Innovation Institutions and Mechanisms: Status & Deficiencies"
Policy Memo
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project, Charles Jones, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy; Professor of Physics, Harvard; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Policy Project
The United States needs to transform the way it produces and uses energy. This will require the improvement of current technologies and the development of new ones. To achieve the maximum payoff for public investments in energy technology innovation, the United States will need to improve and better align the management and structure of existing and new energy innovation institutions, and better connect R&D to demonstration and deployment. In this policy memo, the authors discuss three general and important recommendations for thinking about different initiatives, and we discuss the merits and challenges of current and new institutions, and the remaining gaps in the U.S. energy innovation system.
Martha Stewart
Spring 2009
"Preliminary Policy Recommendations for Enhancing Energy Innovation in the U.S."
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Charles Jones, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
The Obama administration and the 111th Congress face enormous challenges and opportunities in tackling the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems posed by the energy sector in the United States and worldwide. Improving the technologies of energy supply and end-use is a prerequisite for surmounting these challenges in a timely and cost-effective way. This article is adapted from the executive summary of the Belfer Center Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) report, "Tackling U.S. Energy Challenges and Opportunities," by Laura Diaz Anadon, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Matthew Bunn, and Charles Jones.
AP
February 18, 2009
Tackling U.S. Energy Challenges and Opportunities: Preliminary Policy Recommendations for Enhancing Energy Innovation in The United States
Report
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project and Charles Jones, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
ETIP’s Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project has developed recommendations for energy innovation in the United States. These recommendations lay out a comprehensive strategy for investment in energy innovation, new approaches to managing the effort, and policies for moving new technology into the marketplace.
