Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum and founder of Carbon International, explores trends in clean-tech
For an industry that is traditionally seen as conservative and, let us be honest, a bit dull, the chemicals industry is certainly heavily involved in some remarkably cool venturing activity. German chemicals venturing stalwarts BASF and Evonik lead the way. Global oil and gas corporate venture capital is catching up.
When we think of oil and gas corporate venturing we tend to think only of upstream technologies. But their strategic needs in their downstream chemicals businesses are…
