Business Development and Clean Tech

Business Development and Clean-Tech would at first look seem to be just as relevant As Business Development and Communications for example. But it seems that those dealing with Business Development, the Clean Tech sector holds a special interest.

The drive towards more and more awareness regarding environmental issues has increased the interest of firms in Clean-Technologies. Whether these are technologies for better energy management and decreased usage of energy sources, recycling, usage of less waste producing manufacturing, the production of renewable energies and more, firms in different sectors have been looking at these technologies.
In many cases firms, after being pushed into a first look due to market pressure, that is, in order to better sell their products, or maintain their market share, get acknowledged as "Green" etc., realize that the Clean-Tech they were looking into, could directy influence their cost structure and help theri profitability.
While we will not discuss here how exactly each firm may benefit from absrbing environmentaly friendly technologies, the search and increased interest has led to widespread activity in the field. From the point of view of the technology or knowledge providers, the issue of technology transfer and Business Development in that sector are important parameters.
While there is an article of mine soon to be published ( a link will be provided from my site at: www. amiramporath.co.il) on the topic, here I would like to present some points for your onsideration:

1. Is the Clean-Tech really one sector? Are the developers of water treatment infrastructure size plants in the same market, as the developers of home water filtration systems?


2. If we are dealing with different secors, how would that influence the parameters of Business development and Technology Tranfer?


3. Regarding the role of the IP managers in firms, and Technology Transfer officers in research organizations, how would these roles change as a result of the activity in the Clean-Tech sector?


4. Which would be the best way for governments to encourage activities in Clean-Tech based on the above?

In order to demonstrate the level of importance that discussion has receeved and to give preliminary answers to the questions above please see the films in the links below, recently published on the web by the European Patent Office (EPO). some of the recent films were fillmed during an internal conference on the topic held recently.

Enjoy,

Amiram Porath

Links for this post:

• http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/clean-energy/films/renewable.html


• http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/clean-energy/films/films.html


• http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/clean-energy/films.html?update