What Can Fusion Energy Learn From Biotechnology?
BY ANDREW W. LO, DENNIS M. WHYTE
Fusion energy faces many hurdles. The history of the biotech industry offers lessons for how to build public trust and create a robust investment ecosystem to help fusion achieve its potential.
Rutherford Energy Ventures is spotlighting a new thought-leadership article from our founders, What Can Fusion Energy Learn From Biotechnology?, authored by MIT Professor Andrew W. Lo and fusion-energy expert Dennis G. Whyte. Published in Issues in Science and Technology, the piece offers a clear, actionable framework for accelerating the commercialization of fusion energy—drawing on lessons from the rise of biotechnology. The full article is available now through Issues in Science and Technology at the link below.
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an external faculty member at Santa Fe Institute, and Partner & Co-Founder at Rutherford Energy Ventures.
Dennis G. Whyte is the Hitachi Professor of Engineering in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, former director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Partner & Co-Founder at Rutherford Energy Ventures.
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