Key Success Factors in supporting Clean Tech start-ups: A General Framework and an Italian experience

摘要

University technology transfer is seen as one of the prominent sources of new energy innovation. Due to the global drivers leading to increasing interest, opportunity and necessity of clean technologies, many universities have business incubators which are now looking to enter the clean energy space. It is therefore important for both incubator management and clean technology entrepreneurs to understand the commercialization strategy distinctive to 'cleantech' nascent technologies and start-up companies. The clean technology sector is significantly broad and therefore this research provides a general framework (fig. 1) of the key success factors (KSFs) in both the strategy of commercialization of clean technologies and the best practice incubation strategy necessary to foster successful clean technology start-ups.