Cleantech Roadmap

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2008-11-25 10:45:00 UTC
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As regular readers have seen, I've been trying to keep track of social entrepreneurship and innovation in the green and cleantech sector. There was a great post yesterday on Triple Pundit that really breaks down the sector into more concise chunks. Basically, he identifies five market segments:

Power Technology: generation, storage, transmission and management
Transportation: vehicles, fuels, and infrastructure
Built Environments: greener buildings, energy efficient technologies
Environmental Technology: recycling, remediation, pollution control
Water, wastewater, and related technologies
Each of those categories contain four main sub-markets: Materials, Products, Systems, and Software/Services.

And three major gaps:

Technology gaps
Funding gaps and
Policy gaps

He has a great graph of venture capital for broken down into different elements of the sector copied below. Definitely check out the whole article here.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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