REBOUNDING INVESTMENT IN CLEAN TECHNOLOGY SHOWS GEOGRAPHY, SECTOR SHIFTS

摘要

Founded in 2002, Cleantech Group LLCrn(San Francisco, CA; cleantech. com) facilitates investments in clean technologies across a wide variety of categories, including alternative energy, energy efficiency, water treatment, advanced materials, and green manufacturing. The firm sponsors a series of forums, including its most recent one in Boston, in September, where investors can meet innovators in the "cleantech" field, and it engages in other advisory and networking activities designed to put cleantech entrepreneurs in contact with capital resources. Cleantech Executive Chairman Nicholas Parker spoke to EBJ about the current state of cleantech investing about a year after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, which is widely regarded as a watershed event leading to the global financial meltdown.