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title: "Amid Energy Crisis, a Need to Define and Promote Innovation"
summary: |-
  Improving energy innovation and developing new designs can propel the world to reductions in carbon emissions.
date: "2012-12-17"
issues: ["Clean Energy Innovation"]
authors: ["Matthew Stepp"]
content_type: "Op-Eds & Contributed Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2012/12/17/amid-energy-crisis-need-define-and-promote-innovation/"
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# Amid Energy Crisis, a Need to Define and Promote Innovation

Today’s energy technologies won’t be able to propel the world to deep reductions in global carbon emissions, Stepp writes, but improving energy innovation and developing new designs can.

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2012/12/17/amid-energy-crisis-need-define-and-promote-innovation/*