Re-Engineering Europe: Vorsprung durch Clean Technik?

Europe (and Germany) is in the world’s glare right now, as the euro debt crisis creates paralysis and fear in markets and investors.

Meantime, the ongoing decades-long industrial shifts, accelerated by policy and price, enabled by clean technology products and services, continue apace. Investments in young companies have continued to rise, prices of products (in solar, LEDs, etc.) continue to trend downwards and towards parity with their alternates. And just at that point where we are gripped by a today crisis caused by yesterday’s actions, a sense of tomorrow, brought about, in part, by German and European ingenuity, technical expertise and policy, is almost within touching distance.

The 2012 European Cleantech Forum unashamedly borrows from two famous advertising slogans of the past (let’s acknowledge them - Audi and Apple) as we concentrate our minds on some key questions of today:

Our call for action – think different. All speakers, session hosts and company presenters are being asked to bring new perspectives to Munich, to the 2012+ cleantech innovation agenda, to face up to new times.

How can a new wave of sustainable economic growth be found, political and corporate strategists are pondering? In an era of lower capital availability.

How can the home continent of the original industrial revolution re-invent itself to compete in the 21^st century?

How can Europe leverage its science, engineering and technology base to re-engineer the future and achieve ‘vorsprung’’? Is clean technik the answer to multiple challenges?

Can ‘vorsprung’ be actually achieved with low/no tech? New services, new business models, new collaboration and engagement models between large and small companies, new financing mechanisms,

Who are the companies with innovations, in technology and business models, who foretell that future? Who are the corporate players to enable these cleantech innovations to go to scale? Who are the financiers with the capital and risk appetite to make that happen?

Join us in Munich for our 8^th annual European Cleantech Forum, the only genuinely pan-European conference of its kind, to explore.

We look forward to seeing you in April 2012.  Register online today.