(8) TRANSLATIONAL
RESEARCH.—The term 
‘‘translational research’’ means the coordination of 
basic or applied research with technical applications 
to enable promising discoveries or inventions to 
achieve commercial application. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF CLEAN TECHNOLOGY CON-
SORTIA PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish and 
carry out a program to establish clean technology con-
sortia to enhance the economic, environmental, and energy 
security of the United States by promoting domestic devel-
opment, manufacture, and deployment of clean, state-of- 
the-art technologies. 
(b) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall carry out the 
program established under subsection (a) by leveraging 
the expertise and resources of private research commu-
nities, institutions of higher education, industry, venture 
capital, National Laboratories (as defined in section 2 of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15801)), and 
other participants in technology innovation— 
(1) to support collaborative, cross-disciplinary 
research and development in clean technologies and 
advanced manufacturing; and 
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(2) to develop and accelerate the commercial 
application of innovative clean technologies and ad-
vanced manufacturing practices. 
(c) ROLE
OF
THE
SECRETARY.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) carry out and oversee all aspects of the pro-
gram established under subsection (a); 
(2) select recipients of grants for the establish-
ment and operation of consortia through a competi-
tive selection process; and 
(3) coordinate the innovation activities of con-
sortia with activities carried out by the Secretary of 
Energy, the Secretary of Defense, other Federal 
agency heads, industry, and institutions of higher 
education, including by annually— 
(A) issuing guidance regarding national 
clean technology and advanced manufacturing 
development priorities and strategic objectives; 
and 
(B) convening a conference relating to 
clean technology and advanced manufacturing, 
which shall bring together representatives of 
Federal agencies, industry, institutions of high-
er education, and other entities to share re-
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search and commercialization results, program 
plans, and opportunities for collaboration. 
(d) PURPOSES OF CONSORTIA.—The purposes of the 
consortia shall include— 
(1) promoting new innovative clean technologies 
that have demonstrated interest and potential for 
commercialization; 
(2) expanding advanced manufacturing capabili-
ties, networks, supply chains, and assets, in the area 
of clean technologies, that contribute to regional and 
national manufacturing competitiveness and poten-
tial for growth; 
(3) promoting job creation and entrepreneur-
ship through the establishment of new companies, 
the expansion of existing companies, and commer-
cialization of clean technologies; 
(4) providing technical or financial assistance to 
companies looking to invest in clean technologies, 
new products or services, or enhanced processes that 
will grow sales and jobs; 
(5) determining opportunities and challenges 
that companies are facing and how to improve their 
use or production of clean technologies; 
(6) assisting individual small- and medium-sized 
enterprises with adopting and utilizing new clean 
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technologies and related business and advanced 
manufacturing practices; 
(7) accelerating investment in and deployment 
of clean technologies through public-private partner-
ships; 
(8) encouraging partnering between and among 
emerging and established clean technology and ad-
vanced manufacturing enterprises; or 
(9) demonstrating a comprehensive and success-
ful model for commercialization of clean technologies 
for promotion and emulation. 
SEC. 4. APPLICATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—To receive a grant under this Act, 
a consortium shall submit to the Secretary an application 
in such manner, at such time, and containing such infor-
mation as the Secretary determines to be necessary. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—A consortium shall be eligible to 
receive a grant under this Act if— 
(1) the consortium consists of— 
(A) one or more research universities that 
can demonstrate a significant annual clean 
technology research budget, entrepreneurial 
support programs, and technology licensing ex-
pertise; and 
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(B) a total of three or more qualifying en-
tities 
that 
can 
demonstrate 
expertise 
in 
translational research, clean technology, and 
cluster development; 
(2) the members of the consortium have estab-
lished a binding agreement that documents— 
(A) the structure of the partnership agree-
ment; 
(B) a governance and management struc-
ture that enables cost-effective implementation 
of the program; 
(C) a conflicts-of-interest policy, including 
procedures, consistent with those of the Depart-
ment of Commerce, to ensure that employees 
and designees for consortium activities who are 
in decisionmaking capacities disclose all mate-
rial conflicts of interest, including financial, or-
ganizational, and personal conflicts of interest; 
(D) an accounting structure that meets the 
requirements of the Secretary and that may be 
audited under this Act; and 
(E) the existence of an external advisory 
committee; 
(3) the consortium receives funding from non- 
Federal sources, such as a State and participants of 
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