【Course description】
To solve energy and environmental crisis, the innovation and diffusion of new, clean and dynamic technologies are crucial. Innovation and diffusion of the technologies bring new and exciting business opportunities likewise in future sustainable society. This class overviews a landscape of energy and environmental technologies. Part of the class introduces research projects where students are encouraged to investigate potentials and barriers in innovating and/or diffusion the technology of selected choice. The research questions for this project include: 1) how the technology help to solve energy and environmental crisis; 2) what level of business opportunities exist in the development of the technology and: 3) what benefit the technology may bring to society. Moreover, the project is designed for students to highlight the barriers in the development and address roles of the public (national and local government) and private actors (companies) in promoting them.

The goals of this class for students are following:

1. To understand different energy and environmental technologies.
2. To explore 1) how the technologies help to solve energy and environmental crisis; 2) what level of business opportunities exist in the development of the technologies and: 3) what benefit the technology may bring to society.
3. To highlight barriers in the development of the technologies.
4. To address roles of the public (national and local government) and private actors (companies) in promoting them.