Innovation and Energy Security: A Leadership Odyssey

In this National Science Foundation lecture, Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, argues that we cannot meet tomorrow's energy security needs by relying on our present, rapidly aging science and technology workforce. The need to replenish the nation's inventory of ingenuity has become a "quiet crisis." It can only be addressed by identifying and developing new, home-grown science and engineering talent from all sectors of our society. If that effort does not begin vigorously and soon, the United States will fall behind other countries for the first time since World War II. That would be a catastrophe, because as the search for new energy solution is "the space race of this millennium."



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMvJ9kjko3o&hl=en