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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"cleantech"”.
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Accelerating cleantech hardware product development
Startups in the Cleantech sector have historically had poor return on investment and high failure rates when compared with the medical or software sectors. One reason given for the disappointing outcomes of many Cleantech companies is slow product development (PD) and cycles of learning. In this …
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The Effect of Energy Policy on Cleantech Venture Capital and Private Equity Investment in Canada: Investors’ Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity.
… continues to rise above pre-industrial levels, cleantech must be deployed at an increased rate and scale (OECD, 2017). Cleantech, including technologies for renewable energy generation, advanced fuels, and energy: storage, software, and efficiency (Gaddy et al., 2016), often have higher initial …
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From Lab to Market: Early-Stage Business Models for the Commercialisation of University Technology in the Cleantech Industry
… models to commercialise new technology for the cleantech industry. To achieve this, an in-depth case study of four cleantech USOs at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom was performed. Sixty interviews with multiple stakeholders were conducted, and effectual logic and the concept of …
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Using public/private partnerships to develop renewable energy : an economic development analysis for the Cleantech Cluster in San Francisco
Although state and federal financial incentives have made solar energy more cost effective in California, there still are real or perceived barriers to developing large scale, wide spread solar deployment. The City of San Francisco is looking to overcome these barriers in order to attract and …
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On creating cleantech confluences : best practices and partnerships to mobilize multiple sources of private capital into early-stage clean technologies
… the ability and confidence to invest in the cleantech sector again? How can policymakers address the failure modes that may still exist if investors and entrepreneurs follow best practices? To explore this issue, we conducted interviews, reviewed literature, compiled data from online sources, …
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Emergent Geographies in Green Energy
… capital (VC) is playing an active role for the cleantech sector; cleantech encompasses broad themes of sustainability to include electricity as well as materials, buildings, water, energy software, and recycling. Cleantech is among the leading economic sectors securing the most VC money and the …
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The Business Model – Formation, description and definition
… (MBIs) upon the business models of seven Swedish cleantech ventures. The results show that the MBIs have a mainly negative influence on the business models and fail to raise the marginal abatement costs high enough for the firms to find profitable market niches in Sweden. The second paper explores …