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PRODUCER QUESTIONS:

#1 - What recent lighting developments do you believe are especially important?

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#2 - Have opportunities to conduct undirected, basic research decreased over the past 30 years? Give examples to support your view.

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#3 - Do you believe there is growing pressure to market products quickly? Does this sometimes or often mean that products needing many years of work are shelved? Give examples to support your view.

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#4 - How have the needs of various lighting users changed, in your experience? Can you provide data on how you determined those needs and how this influences your planning process?

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#5 - Before the 1970s, improving the efficacy of lighting was only one of many research goals. In your experience, did the increased emphasis on efficacy adversely affect work on other goals?

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#6 - Can you provide information about the effects of corporate downsizing and globalization on research and development?

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#7 - Efficient lighting is increasingly seen as a system involving many integrated components. From your experience, how has this view affected technology development?

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#8 - Describe how government actions have affected your efforts to produce efficient lighting. These actions could include research and development efforts, legislation, local energy ordinances, or buying preferences.

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#9 - Some technically successful devices have failed to sell; other devices have sold well despite technical problems. Describe your experience with such successes and failures.

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#10 - Have you experienced cases in which research and development in energy-efficient lighting has "cross-fertilized" work in other technologies?

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#11 - How did your everyday use of lighting affect your planning and actions as a producer of lighting devices?

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#12 - From your own experience, give examples of how ideas, information, or complaints from designers, salespeople, and other conveyors of lighting technology have affected efficient lighting research and development.

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GENERAL QUESTIONS:

#13 - What specific effects did the Energy Crisis of the 1970s have on your work with lighting technology?

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#14 - Some energy-efficient lighting products have become associated with problems such as torchier fires, mercury content, and "light pollution." What problems or concerns affected your work with efficient lighting?

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#15 - Adopting efficient lighting seems to require producers, conveyors, and consumers to think about illumination in new ways. Do you see evidence of new approaches to lighting in society at large? Have you, as a  producer, changed your own notions about lighting?

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#16 - Has your involvement with energy-efficient lighting led you to consider energy issues when you think about other products? Can you give examples?

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#17 - In your experience, has the environmental movement helped create demand for efficient lighting? Can you cite any specific examples?

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#18 - Are there questions we should be asking that you didn't see on this form? Please be specific, and remember to answer your own
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