Why public and impact sector stakeholders are needed to enable venture activity in cleantech?Stakeholders from the public and impact investment sector can play a key role in enabling early-stage investment activity, including…Feb 24, 2021Feb 24, 2021
Can Venture Capital help unlock the ‘cleantech’ potential?Can Venture Capital (VC) help unlock the ‘cleantech’ potential? After all, with the Paris agreement and the SDG 2030 goals we are in a…Feb 19, 2021Feb 19, 2021
Enabling Venture Capital investments and economic activity through upstream R&D fundingVenture Capital (VC) investments are a small portion of the gross domestic product (0.3%) but can catalyze downstream investment activity…Feb 18, 2021Feb 18, 2021
Are good days beckoning for Finland’s cleantech?Venture fund raising dipped down significantly in Finland during the recession years, as it did in other Nordic countries. Despite the…Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Norwegian cleantech funding ecosystemAs is the trend in other NORDIC countries the venture fund raise did experience a dip down to EUR 14.3 million in 2009, in Norway, from…Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
WaterHubs: Infrastructure for urban slumsNote: Reproducing the article I wrote for China Water Risk in 2015.Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Public cleantech financing in Denmark: Creating conditions for investment syndicationEarly stage funding in DenmarkJul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
A brief on public cleantech financing in Sweden: Does increased public funding trickle down to…Early stage funding in SwedenJul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
Public vs private venture capital in cleantech: Conflict and synergiesGovernment playing the role of a VC investor may seem strange. Should it compete against other private players? Do public agencies have…Jul 21, 2020Jul 21, 2020
