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title: "To Do: Expand DOE’s LEEP Program"
summary: |-
  The Energy Department should expand its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) across all the national laboratories it oversees.
date: "2017-03-27"
issues: ["Clean Energy Innovation", "Science and R&D", "Technology Diffusion"]
content_type: "Knowledge Base Articles"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2017/03/27/to-do-expand-does-leep-program/"
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# To Do: Expand DOE’s LEEP Program

# Recommendation

The Energy Department should expand its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP) across all the national laboratories it oversees.

# Details

DOE’s LEEP program represents a new technology transition model of “inside-out” innovation, getting the labs to transition from a historical focus mainly on moving their own technologies outside the lab, to a new “outside-in” model that gives entrepreneurs access to the advanced technology, equipment, and know-how that the labs possess. There are three LEEPs: Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley, the Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) program at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Innovation Crossroads program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. All labs should develop a LEEP program.

**Keep reading:**

- Peter L. Singer and William B. Bonvillian, “‘Innovation Orchards’: Helping Tech Start-Ups Scale” (ITIF, March 2017), [https://itif.org/publications/2017/03/27/innovation-orchards-helping-tech-start-ups-scale/](https://itif.org/publications/2017/03/27/innovation-orchards-helping-tech-start-ups-scale/).

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2017/03/27/to-do-expand-does-leep-program/*