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The concept of National Innovation Systems provides a theoretical structure for this assessment and helps explain that PV\u2019s success has been the result of distinct contributions mainly by the US, Japan, Germany, Australia, and China\u2014in that sequence. Flows of knowledge from one country to another\u2014often embodied in equipment, and also as tacit knowledge in the heads of internationally mobile individuals\u2014have been central to solar\u2019s progress. One payoff from understanding the reasons for solar\u2019s success is that it can serve as a model for other low-carbon technologies. I focus on direct air carbon capture and small nuclear reactors. However other technologies would have to progress much faster than PV to be helpful for climate change. Possible approaches for accelerating innovation include: dynamic R&D foci, codification of knowledge, public procurement, robust markets, enhancing knowledge mobility, and addressing political economy considerations. \r\n\r\nSpeaker: Professor Gregory F. Nemet, University of Wisconsin-Madison\r\nGregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs. He teaches courses in policy analysis, energy systems, and international environmental policy. Nemet's research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it. He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College. He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: \u201cHow Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation\u201d (Routledge 2019). He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019. 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