Tesla backer: Clean tech investors need to see the big picture

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Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners argues clean tech naysayers are the descendants of those who dismissed the automobile and the computer

One of the world's leading clean tech investors has today urged the sector to resist the temptation to succumb to a crisis of confidence and recognise that the fundamental economic drivers that have driven...

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