Venture capitalist John Doerr has recommended that president-elect Barack Obama hire Bill Joy as chief technology officer of the United States (a new position that Obama is planning) to kick-start a huge amount of research and innovation in energy.

His other recommendations: Double the number of engineers who graduate from American universities each year to 60,000, bring more women into the field, encourage foreigners who study engineering here to stay here, and restore DARPA “to its former glory and autonomy.”