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Cleantech is a relatively new term coined to identify a segment of businesses that are involved in offering products and services that either makes current products, processes more energy efficient; or device more eco-friendly ways of production or delivery of goods and services replacing current environmentally unfriendly goods and services. Alternative energy generation like wind, solar geothermal etc also fall within the category of cleantech. However, cleantech is much more than just businesses involved in renewable power generation. Determining what is or isn’t clean tech is not easy. We have highlighted ways to go about classifying the cleantech segment based on accepted norms today.
Cleantech is today what Internet was in 1996 to 2000, a nascent and emerging industry with promising growth prospects were phenomenal amounts of capital and talent is flowing to satisfy market demand. In 2009 cleantech companies listed in Toronto Stock Exchange (including venture exchange) raised over $1.6 billion. 2009 was an exceptionally bad year to raise money yet money was flowing to cleantech. Toronto Stock exchange has emerged as a leader in cleantech with 123 clean tech companies listed with a Quoted Market Value of $13 billion.
Cleantech being a nascent industry, is driven by innovation and is fuelled by smallcap companies. Due to its very dynamic nature, sifting through the smallcap clean tech companies and being able to identify the promising ones can be potentially very rewarding to investors. Think about the early investors in Internet boom era. Many lost money. But some also became incredibly rich on the back of successful investments in Internet giants like Ebay or Google. Similarly cleantech investing is today a jungle and Ubika Research wants to share our expertise to smallcappower.com visitors to understand this sector and find interesting companies and ideas for investment in this dynamic sector. Visit this page regularly as you will find information that can assist in finding investment ideas in the cleantech sector.
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