GLOBAL CLEANTECH LLC

GLOBAL CLEANTECH LLC
Building on my expertise in technology development and cleantech business venture assessment, I formed a stand-alone consulting business that focuses on global cleantech in terms of:
Corporate competitive strategy,
Investment decision-making,
IP assessment and claim validation, and
Educating global entrepreneurs of the 21st century.
The confluence of global government support for developing a green economy, corporations treating sustainability as a new innovation frontier in their operations and supply chains, and investments in Cleantech startup companies rebounding in the US, Europe and China, has created a need for expert advise in the above areas.
These consulting activities complement my research, teaching, and mentoring interests in CleanTech entrepreneurship. These range from integrating ‘live’ lectures in global entrepreneurship from Asia, to making the ‘business value’ case for Cleantech, to being faculty advisor to the Green Entrepreneurs Group of UMs Chinese Entrepreneur Network (link).
China - SISU: We have developed business and educational ties with one of the technology parks (Suzhou-Singapore Industry Park, SIP) since 2007, resulting in a current appointment as a Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Suzhou Institute of Sichuan University (SISU), one of the higher education academic institutions affiliated with the SIP. The focus of the collaboration has been on CleanTech innovation in the drinking water and energy efficiency space. As part of the appointment, I teach eMBAs from the broader Suzhou-Shanghai region on CleanTech Innovation and the Business of Sustainability, and develop collaborative proposals for technology development.
China - Hong Kong: The roundtable for entrepreneurship education (REE) is organizing a conference/workshop on Global Entrepreneurship. With support from the Zell Lurie Institute, and drawing from my work in Suzhou, I will partake with a talk on “Global Entrepreneurial Business Strategies: Teaching CleanTech Venture Assessment in the US and China” (Poster Adriaens REE Asia.ppt).
US - Patent Claim Validation: We have engaged with a number of law firms (e.g. King $ Spalding LLP, link) in support of patent litigation for cleantech inventions. The objective was to provide expert analysis of patent enablement and claim validation through reports and experimental work.
US/Europe/China - CleanTech Forum Events: We have participated in and co-sponsored a number of CleanTech business development events, such as the CleanTech Shanghai Forum (2008), the Opal Financial Group Green Investment Conference (2008), and the CTSI Clean Technology and Sustainable Industry Conference and Trade Show (2009). To learn more about these venues, please visit the logos below:
US/China - LimnoTech: I am retained as a part-time senior consultant at LimnoTech, an engineering services consultancy with expertise in the development and application of modeling tools for public and private clients. My focus has been on value creation by moving the services ‘up the value chain’, in particular focusing on the financial services industry (banking, insurance, etc...). Projects focus on:
Green infrastructure financing for Brownfields redevelopment at the lower Don River in Toronto, Canada,
Corporate water footprints for Coca Cola,
Investment decision support for alternative cooling technology for energy utilities, and
Blue-green algae modeling and sediment treatment in Lake Taihu (China)
The Taihu work engages the Taihu Basin Authority in Shanghai and the World Resources Institute (Beijing office).
Asia - World Bank: Leveraging our expertise of 20 years of dioxin research in general, and exposure analysis in particular, we were engaged by the World Bank’s Environment Sector Unit, East Asia and the Pacific Region, to assess and mitigate exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Our current focus is on the Philippines because of human exposure to open burning of waste sites, and prior industrial contamination legacies. Global CleanTech LLC oversees a team conducting ground-based sampling (Canada), satellite imagery studies (India) and development of cleanup standards in soil and water (Philippines).
Africa - Global Environment Facility (GEF): We were retained to draft soil cleanup recommendation guidelines for the UN Africa Stockpiles Program (ASP) (link) for pesticide contamination. In 2000 the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and WWF proposed an initiative to address to the accumulation of obsolete pesticide stockpiles across the African continent. The scope of the ASP is 10-15 years, implemented over a series of projects, at an estimated total clean-up and prevention cost of US$250 million. Project 1 consists of 7 countries: Ethiopia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Tunisia. For more information, see link below.
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACTIVITIES