Dr. Narin said that Lucent was faster than Alcatel in making technology breakthroughs, as measured by the dates of previous patents by any company that it cited in its own patent applications.
Wind and solar provide cheap energy, EVs are perfecting the drive trains [the power delivery system from engine to wheels] that hydrogen cars will use, and there have been significant technology breakthroughs making the hardware needed to make hydrogen much more cost-competitive.
That's why the late-1990s technology breakthroughs made investors believe (many still do) that we were on the cusp of a technological upheaval to match the harnessing of electricity.
As a global warming policy alternative, a solution by technological fixes has salient drawbacks: how to make breakthrough technologies realized in time and whether private actors will adopt breakthrough and incremental technologies for the benefit of global climate stability.
We need the same technology breakthroughs that have enabled other sectors to make quantum leaps in efficiency, productivity and reliability for lower costs.
They were expected to be midcareer officials and scholars with signs of potential to make breakthroughs in technology and business.
And, we've got companies trying to make breakthroughs in technology as well as companies disrupting existing industries, for example in an area like transportation or green building, which are not maybe technology-dependent but require innovative business models.
All of those important technology breakthroughs are within reach.
"Governments are always worried that the next math or technology breakthrough will make their encryption algorithms insecure," he says.
"Technology breakthroughs are unlikely to be the answer.
