Venture capital investment in the greentech industries: A provocative essay

Handbook of Research on Energy Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 214-228

  Kenney, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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