Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
of Defense procurement policies that systematically favor well-connected aerospace and defense incumbents, or ARPA–Energy’s attempts to pick a winner in so-called cleantech by subsidizing a select few startups (including the solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, which imploded spectacularly in 2011 after the
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cleantech bubble burst). It’s no wonder, then, that a nostalgic hopelessness, defeatist fatalism, or outright nihilism about the future has started to metastasize. On a
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war. This contrasts sharply with narratives surrounding energy technologies characterized as “clean” and “renewable,” with their quasi-mystical connotations of purification, healing, and renewal. The cleantech bubble emerged during the mid-2000s with investments in solar, biofuels, batteries, and other renewable energy sources, and is perhaps one of the purest examples
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narrative. 282 “Salvation (and Profit) in Greentech,” a talk given by the venture investor John Doerr in 2007, perfectly encapsulates the core narrative of the cleantech bubble. In it, Doerr describes climate change as “the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century, and a moral imperative.” 283 This simultaneous belief in
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profits and salvation fueled the cleantech bubble, which burst just a year after Doerr’s speech, when the financial crisis simultaneously led to a collapse in oil prices and a dramatic
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high-risk projects. The subsequent high-profile problems at companies like Solyndra further intensified investor skepticism of clean energy, at least in the US. While cleantech represented a new and massive market—an opportunity Doerr characterized as “bigger than the internet”—its rise cannot be fully understood without an appeal to
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-nuclear-apocalypse Tokyo, the radiation-powered protagonists are depicted as victims. 282 Vincent Giorgis, Tobias A. Huber, and Didier Sornette, “‘Salvation and Profit’: Deconstructing the Clean-Tech Bubble,” Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (2022): 1–13. 283 Doerr, John, “Salvation (and Profit) in Greentech,” Ted Talk, 2007, https://www.ted.com/talks/john
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-work-is-important-to-the-future-of-the-world.html. As a result of Musk’s mastery of investment narratives, which he developed during the cleantech bubble, Tesla itself became a meme stock—that is, a stock that is primarily driven not by economic fundamentals but by narratives. It could be
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by carbon capture. By harnessing wind, waves, sun, and carbon, such technologies gave rise to imagery of purification, healing, and renewal—evinced by the terms “cleantech” and “renewable energy” themselves—in contrast to the entrenched imagery of crisis and pollution that nuclear energy and fossil fuels invoked. Like their nuclear predecessors
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, many founders and investors in cleantech are today motivated by a quasi-religious impetus. Elon Musk often invokes apocalyptic imagery when he talks about Tesla’s mission: It’s “very important
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to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport,” he argues, because otherwise “we’re all damned.” Or consider the way John Doerr characterizes the promise of cleantech: “If we face irreversible and catastrophic consequences, we must act, and we must act decisively.” 395 Like manned space flight, biotech, and AI, clean or
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Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by Brad Feld · 8 Oct 2012 · 169pp · 56,250 words
can apply to building your startup community. As I’ll discuss in a later chapter, Boulder actually has five startup communities: tech (software/Internet), biotech, clean tech, natural foods, and lifestyles of health and sustainability (LOHAS). These five startup communities exist in parallel universes. My time and expertise have been focused on
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these lectures. In recent years, we further tailored the courses to the subject matter of the companies and have introduced separate tracks for information technology, cleantech, music, and social entrepreneurship. Finally, the CU New Venture Challenge created a community pipeline through a mentorship program. Each participating team is offered a mentor
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percent of profit model for non-VC backed companies; our geography to include Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs; and our industries to include bio, cleantech, and LOHAS. The power in the Entrepreneurs Foundation model is to connect startup efforts to the community right now, when it is easy. The result
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five startup communities. I’m involved in the tech community, which I often refer to as software/Internet for clarity. The other four are biotech, cleantech, natural foods, and lifestyles of health and sustainability (LOHAS). Let’s focus on the natural-foods startup community. Celestial Seasonings, started in the 1960s, is
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universe to the Boulder tech startup community. To date, the intersection points have been weak and are artificial. The same can be said for biotech, cleantech, and LOHAS. Recently, I was at an evening event organized by some of the leaders in the Boulder biotech startup community. They invited me as
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by Mariana Mazzucato · 1 Jan 2011 · 382pp · 92,138 words
is Schumpeterian innovation economics – and it is their team of experts that have allowed the bold risk taking in key new sectors like biotech and cleantech to occur. The bank is today earning record-level returns in productive, rather than purely speculative, investments: in 2010 its return on equity was an
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the federal computer system. But they attracted an absurdly high-powered team of brainiacs: a thermodynamics expert from Intel, an MIT electrical engineering professor, a clean-tech venture capitalist who also taught at MIT. The director, Arun Majumdar, had run Berkeley’s nanotechnology institute. His deputy, Eric Toone, was a Duke biochemistry
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countries in responding to the current economic challenges. An Ernst & Young report (2011, 2) described a record global investment of $243 billion in 2010 into ‘cleantech’ (including private and public investment such as feed-in tariffs for solar projects), but they comment that the ‘market is in flux’ (meaning: signals are
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VC can also ruin the prospects of companies developing innovative technologies that had also been supported by taxpayers. Solyndra was a one-time darling among clean-tech companies and first to obtain a loan guarantee as part of the US ARRA’s $37 billion loan guarantee programme. The programme was administered by
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dead ends while the Earth literally suffocates on the industries we built a century ago. One of the biggest challenges for the future, in both cleantech and whatever tech follows it, will be to make sure that in building collaborative ecosystems, we do not only socialize the risks but also the
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the result produces a high reward. A good example is the Brazilian State development bank BNDES, which has been actively investing in innovation in both cleantech and biotechnology. In 2010 it made 21 per cent return on equity (ROE). The percentage retained by BNDES was reinvested in key new sectors, focusing
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The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013
. They are also the site of fifty-four of the fifty-eight top-ranked high-impact U.S. clean technology firms on the 2010 Global Cleantech 100 list.41 Three-quarters of clean economy jobs created from 2003 to 2010 are located in large metros. Moreover, the clean economy is innovation
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of the German research institution, and GreenTown Labs both have a presence in the district and are dedicating a portion of their facilities to incubate clean-tech companies. Second, the city has encouraged a range of flexible housing options that would appeal to a unique class of workers, thinkers, and others that
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and 4,000 new jobs have been created on the site.52 New companies fall within the clusters of life sciences and biotech, green or clean tech, architecture and digital design, communications and new media, financial, legal, and a broad category of technology development, which includes manufacturing.53 Wellesley-based Babson College
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on the region’s strengths in sustainability, the plan has launched a major marketing campaign called We Build Green Cities to promote the region’s clean-tech companies and products as solutions for global clean-economy challenges.58 Portland’s export plan reflects a core understanding that looking abroad for growth is
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potential and need in our hemisphere. After a trip to Brazil, Mayor Sam Adams established a formal relationship with Sustainable Hub, a São Paulo–based clean-tech consulting firm, to help Portland firms crack the Brazilian market and vice versa.62 Portland is not the only U.S. city attempting to organize
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: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment” (Brookings, 2011), p. 11. See also “Global Cleantech 100,” The Guardian, 2010 (www.guardian.co.uk/ globalcleantech100/cleantech-100-2010-list?CMP=twt_gu); Jonathan Rothwell and Mark Muro, “Where the Cleantech Companies Are,” New Republic: The Avenue, February 23, 2011; Jonathan Rothwell and Mark Muro
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, “Top of the Class: The Role of Leading Academic Programs in Cleantech Innovation,’’ New Republic: The Avenue, February 24, 2011. 42. Ibid. 43. Applied Sciences NYC, “Investing in Innovation for a Stronger Economy,” September 13, 2011 (http://
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, 23, 35, 36, 38 Garreau, Joel, 108–09 Gerboth, Christopher, 45–46 Gertz, Geoffrey, 147 Gilbert, Dan, 133, 134, 196 Glaeser, Ed, 22, 30 Global Cleantech 100 list (2010), 31 Global fluency, 169 Globalization: of metropolitan revolution, 6, 24–25, 144–46; and trading cities, 144–46, 147–48, 154, 160
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
by Varun Sivaram · 2 Mar 2018 · 469pp · 132,438 words
, both Twin Creeks Technologies and Nanosolar also ran out of money, as did nearly every other American solar start-up. Bruised venture capitalists slashed their cleantech portfolios, and solar became a dirty word in Silicon Valley. As for my father, he left solar behind to rejoin the semiconductor industry, where innovation
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.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/romney-to-campaign-at-failed-solyndra-factory. 36. Benjamin Gaddy, Varun Sivaram, and Francis O’Sullivan, “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Clean Energy Innovation,” July 2016, https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MITEI-WP-2016-06.pdf. 37. Kevin
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/sites/7/2016/07/Access-30-06-Almanac-R-D-Budget.pdf. 10. Benjamin Gaddy, Varun Sivaram, Timothy Jones, and Libby Wayman, “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Energy Innovation,” Energy Policy 102 (2017): 385–395, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.035. 11. Jeff Brady, “After Solyndra
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://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2011-06-16/crisis-clean-energy. 34. Alex Trembath, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, and Jesse Jenkins, “Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence,” The Breakthrough, April 17, 2012, http://thebreakthrough.org/archive/beyond_boom_and_bust_report_ov. 35. Nichola Groom, “Prospect
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-content/uploads/2015/05/MITEI-The-Future-of-Solar-Energy.pdf. 10.3 Benjamin Gaddy, Varun Sivaram, Timothy Jones, and Libby Wayman, “Venture Capital and Cleantech: The Wrong Model for Energy Innovation,” Energy Policy 102 (2017): 385–395, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.035. Index Boxes, figures, and glossary
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words
to financing risk. Sometimes an entire industry sector suddenly falls out of favor with venture capital firms, as with biotech in the early 1990s or cleantech in the late 2000s. In the extreme, even healthy startups caught in a downdraft cannot attract new funds: Babies go out with the bathwater. Funding
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same thing happened during the Great Recession of 2008. Other misfortunes are less universal, impacting only a single industry sector. During the 2000s, for example, clean tech startups were often predicated on rising fossil fuel costs, but the unexpected growth of fracking and the commensurate decline in fuel costs derailed many of
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.” Venture capital is prone to boom-bust cycles. Notable examples include personal computer hardware and software in the early 1980s; biotechnology in the early 1990s; clean tech in the late 2000s; and—the mother of all bubbles—Internet companies in the late 1990s. In each instance, VCs poured huge amounts of capital
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-wide shifts in investor sentiment. For example, Better Place, on top of everything else, had the misfortune of being caught in a strong downdraft in clean tech venture investing that started in 2010. In the following section, I’ll examine three additional challenges on the Cascading Miracles path and consider how entrepreneurs
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down, Anthony Soohoo joined Walmart as executive vice president of its Home Division—a business with billions of dollars in revenue. Shai Agassi founded another clean tech startup after Better Place failed: Newrgy, which remains in stealth mode but is speculated to focus on public transportation solutions. Letter to a First-Time
The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding · 28 Mar 2011 · 337pp · 103,273 words
went home and founded Suntech Power. In a move laced with irony, Suntech is now opening a plant in Arizona, making it the first Chinese clean tech company to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States. China also has a world-scale electric car and battery company, BYD, that has significantly boosted
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://www.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity _home#tab2. 7. See summary article at http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article /IEA-cleantech-low-carbon-energy-technology-emissio-pd20100705 -73F5M. 8. http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/sizing-low-carbon-economy. CHAPTER 13: SHIFTING SANDS 1. See http
Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources
by Geoff Hiscock · 23 Apr 2012 · 363pp · 101,082 words
wave-generating energy include companies such as Voith Hydro in Germany, Vestas in Denmark, Suzlon Energy in India, and Sinovel, LDK Solar, Suntech, and DP CleanTech in China. About 10 km (6 miles) west of the Nevada border in southern California’s Mojave Desert, the beginnings of Obama’s sought-after
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such as crop residues, native grasses, and woody materials. There are numerous other sources for cellulosic ethanol, including human waste. For example, Israel-based Applied Clean Tech recycles sludge from sewage treatment plants into pellets it calls Recyllose, which can be used as an ethanol feedstock. Massachusetts-based biofuel developer Qteros has
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Anadarko Petroleum Anben Iron & Steel Group Andersson, Martin Andes Aneka Tambang Anshan Iron & Steel Anglo American Angola Antarctic Antofagasta Minerals Apache Corp Apple Inc Applied Clean Tech Aquila Resources Arabian Sea Aral Sea ArcelorMittal Arch Coal Archer Daniels Midland Arctic, Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Areva Argentina Armenia Arrow Energy Arunachal Pradesh, India
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terminal De Margerie, Christophe De Turckheim, Eric Deng Xiaoping Denmark Deripaska, Oleg Diaoyutai (Senkaku islands) Disi-Saq aquifer Domen Kazunari DONG Energy Dongfang Turbine DP Clean Tech Drummond Co Du Plessis, Jan Dubai Dudley, Robert (Bob) Dunand, Marco Dutch East India Company (VOC) Eagle Ford shale field East China Sea East Prinovozemelsky
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
. Now we feel as though we are actually part of society.”39 Gram Power, which was chosen by NASA as one of the top ten Clean Tech Innovators around the world in 2011, has since worked with ten other villages, installing microgrids, and expects to bring green electricity to an additional 40
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and Nick Allen, two young venture capitalists, describe the Cleanweb vision: We believe the next opportunity is what we call the “cleanweb”—a form of clean tech that takes advantage of the Internet, social media, and mobile communications to alter how we consume resources, relate to the world, interact with each other
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happens when green energy meets Moore’s Law,” says Dominic Basulto. Writing on the blog Big Think, he observed that social entrepreneurs who once viewed “clean tech” and “the Web” as an either/or investment proposition now have the best of both worlds: they can invest in solar companies at the same
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2012. 30. Yuliya Chernova, “New York’s Cleanweb Hackathon Sparks Green Ideas Where Cleantech and IT Intersect,” Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2012, http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/10/02 /new-yorks-cleanweb-hackathon-sparks-green-ideas-where-clean-tech-and-it-intersect/ (accessed September 3, 2013); Martin LaMonica, “Cleanweb Hackers Get
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by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
and asked, “Where can we get large quantities of carbon dioxide?” Khosla looked at him in disbelief. As one of the world’s most prominent clean-tech investors, Khosla was well aware that the planet was teeming with industrial plants who were desperately trying to find a place to put their carbon
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