NISTIR 7161
The Role of the U.S.  National Innovation System in the Development of the  PEM Stationary Fuel Cell

Acknowledgments

This report originated in the authors' participation in a multi-country study of national innovation systems and their impact on new technology development, sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). We would like to thank Inja Paik from the Department of Energy and Jerry Sheehan from OECD for asking us to participate in this study. We learned a great deal of new information about fuel cell development through this exercise. We would like to thank the following people in the Advanced Technology Program's (ATP's) Economic Assessment Office: Connie Chang, Jeanne Powell, and Stephanie Shipp. We would also like to thank Purabi Mazumdar, Dilip Banerjee, Elissa Sobolewski, and Don Bansleben from ATP; Laura Schultz from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Brian Belanger, former Deputy Director of ATP; for their helpful comments.

We thank Nita Congress, with the editing firm Grammarians, for her outstanding editing and desktop design. We are grateful to the following people at Plug Power for the generous use of their time during our interviews and for sharing many of their insights during the past decade of fuel cell development: Glenn Eisman, John Elter, Bill Ernst, and Wayne Huang.

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Date created: March 29, 2005
Last updated: August 3, 2005

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