This blog will provide updates on emerging trends and analysis of the CleanTech industry and on how policy, business and technological developments influence company strategies in the industry value chain.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Acceleration of clean technologies and processes into the marketplace is challenging from a number of perspectives: need for risk capital, vetting of an appropriate business model, and rapidly achieving scale of revenue. These challenges are often translated into ‘the need for money’, even though in most early stage ventures the potential for value capture and investability has not been vetted.
Over the course of the last decade, by working with dozens of startups, hundreds of entrepreneurs...
Over the course of the last decade, by working with dozens of startups, hundreds of entrepreneurs...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
In 2006, I started to develop courses in entrepreneurship, aimed at bridging the Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering. As part of the development process I checked around what other university programs were doing, looked at books, and talked to colleagues. The result is that I found that programs had one of two objectives: 1. Starting with an idea and developing a business plan, or 2. Discuss case studies in entrepreneurship of successful businesses. In addition, there...
Monday, January 9, 2012
The media discussion on global CleanTech keeps tends to be focused on competition between the US, Europe and China for dominance in renewable energy jobs (and manufacturing), and on a comparison on total investment by both countries. The outcome of these discussions is often that the US and Europe are loosing the CleanTech war, and that innovation is driven by Asia.
Unfortunately, a lot of valuable information gets lost in this policy debate that ignores innovation, investment and economic...
Unfortunately, a lot of valuable information gets lost in this policy debate that ignores innovation, investment and economic...
December 2011
Article in Forbes: So is There Another Tech Bubble or Not? Read more at http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2011/12/08/so-is-there-another-tech-bubble-or-not/
February 2011
Reuters blog on US-China Innovation http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2011/02/14/innovation-is-how-we-make-our-living-is-china-buying/
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