If clean energy innovation is to be accelerated at the pace required, new approaches to designing public innovation organisations need to be developed. Despite the importance of these organisations in driving sustainability transitions, their role has not yet been explored in the literature. This paper addresses this gap by refining ten principles for publicly funded innovation organisation design and applying them to a detailed case study of the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), UK. Results demonstrate that the ETI's design reflected broader political and industrial relationships at the time of its formation, embedding six large, incumbent energy firms. This effected its ability to pursue the riskier aspects of its mission, resulting in the pursuit of more incremental technologies and outputs. Generalisable aspects of effective innovation organisation design and opportunities to further develop the principles are also identified.

如果要按要求的速度加快清洁能源创新，则需要开发设计公共创新组织的新方法。尽管这些组织在推动可持续性转型方面很重要，但文献中尚未探讨其作用。本文通过完善公共资助的创新组织设计的十项原则并将其应用于英国能源技术学院（ETI）的详细案例研究中，解决了这一差距。结果表明，ETI的设计在成立时就反映了更广泛的政治和产业关系，其中嵌入了六家大型的现有能源公司。这影响了其执行任务中风险较高的方面的能力，从而导致了对更多增量技术和产出的追求。