[Stoves] Steps in the R&D of improved stove technologies

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

This is an interesting list of "stages" that a new technology goes through. You could use it to track the progress of your own efforts.

Regards
Crispin

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Should R&D Funding be provided? If so, under what conditions?

Technologies close to market require different support mechanisms (e.g. tax breaks) from those far from reaching the market. Also, technologies which offer little prospect of becoming commercial within say a generation (i.e. 25 years) must offer some revolutionary potential, not just incremental, to justify early stage R&D funding.

If a technology will commercial viability by 2020, that implies it requires no further public support for R&D as prototypes exist or will do so shortly. Bringing such technologies to market may require much engineering work, but this is an investment decision, not an R&D funding decision.

Stages

  1.  technology concept formulated [such as a new combustor with reduced cost and equal performance]
  2.  experimental proof of concept
  3.  technology validated in lab
  4.  technology validated in relevant environment (relevant domestic or commercial environment in the case of key enabling technologies)
  5.  technology demonstrated in relevant environment (relevant domestic or commercial environment in the case of key enabling technologies)
  6.  system prototype demonstration in operational environment
  7.  system complete and qualified/approved for public sale
  8.  system proven in operational environment (competitive manufacturing in the case of key enabling technologies, or in space)

Commercial viability depends on public acceptance and uptake under local market conditions.

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