ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on push policies and the process by which the federal government actively drives the development and commercialization of clean technologies. It explores the state's role in late stage development and commercialization. The chapter also explores technology transfer', the government's role in actively moving technologies from the public to the private sector. The first factor relates to the immensely decentralized character of the US developmental state, and the political imperative of maintaining this decentralization. The second key factor is the role of ideology, specifically the impressive strength and durability of market-fundamentalist thought that has been a cornerstone of modern neoliberalism. Since the early 1980s, a primary narrative promoted by the Republican Party has been that economic growth, innovation, and general social progress is solely a product of free-markets. The primary way that technologies are transferred in the National Lab System is through intellectual property licensing agreements with private sector firms.
