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CommentaryThe role of corporate investment in start-ups for climate-tech innovation
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Enabling and accelerating the full potential of energy innovation is a critical component of the global policy response to climate change.1 Incentivizing start-ups advancing climate-tech (i.e., products and services related to clean energy and climate change), has become central to innovation policy because start-ups are nimble (compared to incumbents), can quickly focus on bringing new technologies to market, and simultaneously create new jobs and catalyze local industries.2 Public policies to
Acknowledgments
Funding for this research was provided by the Energy and Environment Program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grant number G-2021-14177 (K.S., M.R.E., K.M.K., Z.H.T., M.A.B., N.E.H., L.C., E.D.W., H.M.). Z.H.T. acknowledges support from the Roy F. Weston Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. The authors thank S. Kurowski and C. Doblinger for their data inputs. The authors are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their extensive and constructive feedback.
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