Hydrogen entrepreneurship

Always a high risk industry, hydrogen companies have become even harder to keep afloat since a U.S. recession beginning in 2000 seriously limited access to venture capital and other sources of investment capital. Two chapters discuss hydrogen entrepreneurship in hard times, one by a leader of a company in the field and one from an academic specializing in industrial innovation. 

Doing Good by Doing Well Entrepreneurship in the Hydrogen Transition... 

This suggests that policies intended to encourage entrepreneurship should be considered as one element of any transition to a hydrogen economy. Effective policy, however, requires a closer examination of how entrepreneurs create change. 

There is the prospect of wind farms, wave and tidal power facilities being linked to hydrogen generation, as well as nuclear plants, which nevertheless pose other challenges related to security and radioactive waste disposal. In one form or other and with the right leadership and entrepreneurship, these could meet, potentially, all our heating, power and transportation needs. 

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