cleantech
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- noun
- /ˈkliːnˌtɛk/
- Jargon
- Many startups are focusing on cleantech to develop technologies that minimize environmental damage and enhance sustainability.
- cleantech venture
- cleantech network
- cleantech group
Examples
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Big European corporates are investing in cleantech startups, funds, and JVs at record levels.
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Governments can directly contribute to the cost parity in cleantech by slowly eliminating subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
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To look forward to the hope of the Cleantech space, you need only look at the Global Cleantech 100.
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Venture investment in cleantech is going to be down overall this year compared to last.
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Unfortunately, for the next four years, we can expect more debt, higher spending, and more cleantech business failures.
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Debt and a weak economy are the biggest threats to the cleantech sector.
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Corporations have become the source of cleantech capital to pay closest attention to going forward.
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Where do you think the brightest opportunity is in cleantech over the next 2 years?
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There's no doubt that the going is tough for Cleantech right now.
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Investors are worried about returns in cleantech; some are distancing themselves from the sector.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cleantech comes from joining clean ('not dirty' or 'free from pollution') and tech (short for technology, 'tools or machines'). So as a noun cleantech means the field, companies, or inventions that make and sell technologies to lower pollution and save energy.