Research Priorities of the Supporting Industries Program
Linking Industrial R&D Needs
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The U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Technologies (DOE/IT) program supports partnerships with industries interested in developing new technologies to improve energy efficiency and productivity. This study identifies significant multiple-industry research challenges in materials and materials processing that involve five industries in the DOE/IT Supporting Industries (SI) program — advanced ceramics, forging, heat treating, powder metallurgy and particulate materials, and welding and joining. RAND created and analyzed a database of performance targets, research needs, research projects, and areas of research that cut across multiple industries to identify links between the SI program and other DOE/IT programs. These links could potentially form the basis for alliances to facilitate the achievement of research goals. The links also define those areas in which DOE/IT programs can leverage their funds by working together. The authors also describe a navigational tool they developed to facilitate browsing the database to better identify and analyze links among research needs in multiple industries.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Project Objective and Role of the Supporting Industries Program
Chapter Three
Definition of Analysis Elements and Links Between R&D Needs and Research Projects
Chapter Four
Database Characteristics and Analysis
Chapter Five
Powder Metallurgy and Particulate Materials Example
Chapter Six
Database Navigator
Chapter Seven
MIRN Category Links Analysis
Chapter Eight
Conclusions and Recommendations
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