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Let it flow: Can venture capital break our cleantech bottleneck?
The manager of Australia’s largest renewable energy venture capital fund is poised to announce its first investments, hoping to break the massive hourglass effect between Australia’s R&D and commercialisation. But will the biggest VC opportunities lie in generation technologies, or those that reduce costs for the consumer market?
Giles Parkinson

May 23, 2012

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Can technology really clean up coal’s act?
Australia is looking for ways to dig up and burn coal without blowing its emissions budget. How real is the promise of clean coal technology?
Damon Honnery

May 17, 2012

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Will the techno-optimists save the world?
Techno-optimism is a form of denial. That things aren’t that serious and that politically difficult change that will confront powerful vested economic interests can be avoided. Such a view is reassuring, it feels good and it fits nicely with our genetic tendency to optimism. Unfortunately, it’s also wrong.
Paul Gilding

Mar 7, 2012

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Aiming for the moon: Why America needs the ARPA-E
With funding to the US ‘moonshot’ cleantech agency drying up, this year’s ARPA-E Summit was about making the case for spending on innovation.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 5, 2012

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Mixed Greens: Australia’s cleantech lag
Australia ranks 16th on global innovation index; CFC sales, revenue jump on EU success; Angel investors heart cleantech; & Vic wind policy claims first victim.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 27, 2012

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Who owns the sun? Patent law and clean energy
The cleantech rivalry between the US and China will have important implications for energy security, climate change, and trade in the global economy.
Matthew Rimmer

Feb 22, 2012

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