"It's also a unique opportunity to bring together the public sector, the private sector, industry, the national labs, the universities. By doing that, not only do you make breakthroughs, but you already have this community involved, so they can take...
"It's also a unique opportunity to bring together the public sector, the private sector, industry, the national labs, the universities. By doing that, not only do you make breakthroughs, but you already have this community involved, so they can take it to the next step, to the market."
-Representative Bart Gordon (D-TN) in an interview with Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, discussing the need for an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, with a mandate to invest in potentially game changing energy technologies.
