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Dan Lewis is Research Director of the Economic Research Council and contributes regularly to the Media as a Journalist and Broadcaster. He is Founder of AEI www.altenergyinvestor.org - the global resource bank for the Alternative Energy Investor, sponsored by Guinness Atkinson Asset Management.

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Two recent innovations in solar and wind by very small players that might matter

Posted on June 27, 2008

Most of the time, this blog focuses on big listed companies. And yet, whilst they tend to be the most relevant to alternative energy investors, in so doing we are missing out on something crucial; innovative small companies that just might one day deliver the game-changing invention that will BE BIG. It may be a cliche, but my admittedly partial anecodatal evidence is that when alt. e. companies become large blue chips, the corporate culture takes over and the innovation goes out of the window. The question is why?Arguably, because they have a much greater fear of failure. Silly really, when i...

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alternative energy , investment , investors , solar , wind
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