Baton Rouge is quietly turning academic know-how into factory floors and paychecks. A new LSU-led coalition is working to pull early-stage energy technologies out of university labs and into pilot plants, workforce programs and local startup space. Backers say the goal is to keep the economic value of Gulf Coast energy innovation in Louisiana instead of watching those ideas and jobs drift to other states.
An NSF engine meant to compress the lab-to-market timeline
Future Use of Energy in Louisiana, known as FUEL, is one of the National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, a multi-year effort focused on use-inspired energy research and commercialization, according to the National Science Foundation. The program is administered through…..