The clean energy future requires commitment to open innovation

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Andrew Thompson of Withers & Rogers argues the nature of clean tech and the explosion in microgeneration requires firms to get the balance right between collaboration and IP protection

The micro generation trend is currently going from strength to strength in the UK as start-ups and other independent energy producers seek to profit by supplying energy to the National Grid. But are they...

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