Barriers to environmental technology development and commercialisation and strategies to overcome th

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Barriers to environmental technology development
and commercialisation and strategies to overcome
them

• Perspectives from Europe and North America

Aileen Marshall, SDRC and Robert Earhart, TBLI
Consulting
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The FUNDETEC Project

• SDRC
• TBLI Consulting Group
• European Partners for the Environment
• IZT Institute for Future Studies
• Forseo
• TBLI Brooklyn Bridge
• Banque Populaire

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Project Intro

• Main Objective
• Improvement of finance for environmental
  technology development
• Comparison of different types of instruments
• Assessment of gaps and barriers to finance
• Recommendations for evolution of existing schemes
  and for new schemes and instruments

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Overview of methods

• Mapping
• Database
• Common taxonomy
• Desk research
• Literature review
• In-depth interviews
• Stakeholder review process

Courtesy of Solar Millenium AG
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Research Perspectives
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Environmental Technologies
The OECD/Eurostat definition states that the
environmental goods and services sector
produce goods and services to measure, prevent,
limit, minimize, or correct environmental damage
to water, air and soil, as well as problems
related to waste, noise and ecosystems. This
includes cleaner technologies, products and
services that reduce environmental risk and
minimise pollution and resource use.
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Funding stages
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Funding acquired by developers
Absolute frequency of adoption of different asset
classes shown by the development stage at which
they were adopted
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Public vs. Private funding
Percentage of funding instruments adopted by the
interviewees that came from private sector or
public sector sources, by region.
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Comparison of technology sectors
Relative frequency of adoption of funding types
by the sustainable energy technology developers
and by the non-energy environmental technology
developers
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Funding gap

Available Finance
Commercialisation
Demonstration
Pre-commercialisation
RD
Proof of concept
Chart showing the availability of finance for
technology development through the phases of
development
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Barriers
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Best case examples
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Recommendations
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• Aileen Marshall
• Sustainable Development Research Centre
• aileen.marshall_at_sdrc.uhi.ac.uk
• www.sustainableresearch.com
• 44 (0)1309 678111
• Thank you for your attention!
• Robert Earhart
• TBLI Consulting Group
• robert.earhart_at_tblicg.com
• www.tblicg.com
• 33 (0)1 70 38 54 28

www.fundetec.eu