In its next phase, Mission Innovation plans to further develop multinational collaborations that include a variety of entities. This may require new governance structures to shield the new collaborations from increasingly protectionist domestic politics while incorporating renewed concerns about climate change and energy security.
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Myslikova, Z., Jaffe, A. & Gallagher, K.S. Shielding and expanding Mission Innovation. Nat Energy 7, 779–781 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01115-5
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