Steve Forbes recently invited Lab Director Paul Alivisatos, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the governors of Indiana and Michigan, and the former governor of Virginia, to participate in a panel discussion moderated by Forbes at the recent 2014 Reinventing America Summit. In his comments, Alivisatos emphasized that Berkeley Lab and the DOE National Lab system are very successful in dual roles: continuing the great tradition of groundbreaking discovery science, while embracing a new role of enabling innovation for energy and the environment. He cited the SEMATECH consortium at the Advanced Light Source, the new FLEXLAB, and the Materials Project as examples, and invited entrepreneurs and industry representatives at the forum to seek partnerships with Berkeley Lab and other DOE National Labs.
April 1, 2014