Events & Presentations: William B. Bonvillian
March 29, 2023
The Future of Manufacturing and Innovation in Germany and the United States
Join ITIF and OECD to explore policy questions that arose in the context of the OECD Review of Innovation Policy: Germany, but which have relevance to both the United States and Germany.
November 17, 2020
Manufacturing Workforce Development and Strengthening Manufacturing Supply Chains: What Can States Do?
ITIF hosted a two-part forum on innovative state-level manufacturing policies.
April 26, 2018
Closing the Innovation Gap in Grid-Scale Energy Storage
Please join ITIF for the release of an MIT Energy Initiative working paper. The report’s authors, ITIF Senior Fellow David M. Hart and MIT Professor Bill Bonvillian, will present their findings and discuss policy options for grid-scale storage with an expert panel.
July 26, 2017
Crossing the “Valley of Death”: How to Design and Run Successful Clean-Energy Demonstration Projects
Energy demonstration projects pose many policy and management challenges, and the historical record of the Department of Energy running them is uneven. Join ITIF for the release of a new report assessing recent federal efforts to overcome these challenges and consider how this record might be extended and improved upon in the future.
May 17, 2016
How Policymakers Can Help Build the U.S. Manufacturing Workforce of Tomorrow
Please join ITIF and the bipartisan Senate Competitiveness Caucus to discuss how public policies can support America’s universities as they work to train America’s future manufacturing workforce of tomorrow.
November 3, 2015
Spurring Technological Innovation in America’s Legacy Sectors
Please join ITIF as the authors of "Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors" share key conclusions from the book and their implications for America’s innovation policymakers.
May 7, 2014
University Research Funding: Still Lagging Behind and Showing No Signs of Improvement
ITIF will host an expert panel on the current state of investment in university R&D and the policy reforms required to strengthen innovation and growth.
September 13, 2012
Washington Launch of “Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage”
Rob Atkinson and Stephen Ezell present the findings and conclusions from their new book on a panel moderate by David Leonhardt.
February 3, 2012
Applying the DARPA Concepts to Energy Innovation: The Emerging ARPA-E Model
ITIF is holding a forum on applying the DARPA concepts to energy innovation.
December 15, 2010
Energy Innovation 2010
ITIF and other leading policy think tanks host a day-long conference to ask the hard questions about energy technology policy and innovation in America.