
October 24, 2022 - Article
After a venture capital boom and bust in clean energy investments in the early 2000s, investors and policymakers have recently shown renewed interest in green startups. In The Role of Venture Capital and Governments in Clean Energy: Lessons from the First Cleantech Bubble (NBER Working Paper 29919),...
April 2022 - Working Paper29919 After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding new...