'Salvation and profit': deconstructing the clean-tech bubble
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2024
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From 2004 to 2008, a bubble formed in clean technologies, such as solar, biofuels, batteries and other renewable energy sources. In this paper, we analyse this clean-tech bubble through the lens of the Social Bubble Hypothesis, which holds that bubbles can accelerate technological innovation. We synthesise the development of the clean-tech bubble, its history, and the role of venture capital and government funding in catalysing it, and present evidence that the clean-tech bubble constituted an example of an innovation-accelerating process.
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36 (4)
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827 - 839
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Taylor & Francis
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Financial bubbles; technological innovation; clean technologies; venture capital
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03738 - Sornette, Didier (emeritus) / Sornette, Didier (emeritus)