As a younger man in the salad days of my career in clean-tech financing, I frowned slightly on investors that were looking to back information and communication technology (ICT) enabled resource and energy-efficient technology companies. I thought they were not really getting their hands dirty in the gruelling but noble art of long-term capital-intensive clean technology. They were sprinters – not iron-man, multimarathon runners.
What rubbish. I feel embarrassed by these views today. My admiration for the few…
