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Technology Transfer and Innovation Forum Hosts Joseph Romm, Ph.D.

Joseph Romm, Ph.D., and Vernon Wade, Sr,. President, Wade Enterprises, an NVTC member company. Wade is a participant in the Entrepreneur SOLUTIONS program of The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC.


Joseph Romm, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Center, American Progress, and Editor, ClimateProgress.org, discusses "The Trillion-Dollar Tech Opportunity" at last week's Technology Transfer and Innovation Forum.

Joseph Romm, Ph.D., discussed "The Trillion-Dollar Clean Tech Opportunity" at a recent event co-hosted by The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC. The lunch-time discussion, held February 13 at the George Washington University's Cafritz Center, was the first in this year's Technology Transfer Forum Series. Romm, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Editor of ClimateProgress.org,. is one of the world's leading experts on clean energy technologies and greenhouse gas mitigation.

A group of nearly 30 attendees from international governments and businesses attended the forum to hear Romm talk about how lifestyle and the technologies currently in use will affect the world's climate in the coming years. He explained present market conditions and forecast a major shift in all types of investment in clean technology within two to three decades. With energy prices at an all-time high and continuing to increase, and carbon dioxide restrictions imminent, Romm also predicted which technologies are favored to benefit in the coming "trillion-dollar market for clean energy."

To learn more about clean energy technologies and details of Romm's discussion, don't miss the March/April issue of The Voice of Technology, NVTC's bi-monthly magazine.

The Technology Transfer Forum Luncheon Series is a monthly event and is co organized by Technology Transfer Society - Washington Area Chapter, George Washington University - Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer & Commercialization, The Federal Laboratory Consortium, The Angel Investors of Greater Washington, The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC, Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO), and Rockville Economic Development, Inc.

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