Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum and founder of Carbon International, explores trends in clean-tech.

 

What technology do you spin out? Around what technology should you form a subsidiary? What technology do you need to bring in? Large companies that recognise that innovation is fundamental to long-term survival constantly ask themselves these questions. They also want to know whether corporate venturing is their ultimate answer, only part of the solution or just a distraction.
 
Airbus Group, the European aviation giant, is a good case…