Economics, not technology key to U.S. energy innovation: Steven Koonin
Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 12:42
in Mathematics & Economics
As a theoretical physicist by training, Steven E. Koonin PhD `75 might have been expected to focus his talk at MIT on Wednesday, Sept. 22, on the scientific and technological aspects of energy policy. But he made it clear right away that business and economics are the real keys to progress in the energy frontier.