Insight

Between building the best models and getting it all to market, an entrepreneur can become a billionaire, or a business can flounder. Just as in the market, successful policy requires upfront investment. It needs not venture but “visionary” capital.

To meet our ambition in American innovation, to deploy clean energy, and to expand economic growth in the United States, we’re going to need a lot of new ideas. The Thriving Economy Project is one effort to identify what could – and what should – work better in government.

For state policymakers, one avenue for building more energy generation is the passage of siting and permitting legislation – which determines whether energy projects get built and how quickly they can break ground. Our team got to work tracking them.

Important as wizards are, most funding portfolios are short on whisperers, with the rarer skill of convincing the public, voters, policymakers, and other advocates of the wisdom of good policy ideas.

A new nonpartisan, research-driven strategy and policy consultancy launched this week, focused on supporting the transition toward clean energy.