Private equity investment in technologies which deliver low carbon energy has grown as an area of both economic and social performance. This article offers a perspective on some of the challenges in the industry. It relies on case studies drawn from thirty five interviews with leading clean tech...

Climate change has emerged as one of the dominant environmental business problems of this century. A key aspect of this challenge is financing and commercializing the technologies which will assist economic transition to a low carbon economy. This paper is focused on examining the levers and...

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s first regional carbon trading market. Its objective is to link European countries around a common price for carbon as a step towards helping the global economy transition to a low-carbon production base. This article is one of...

Globalisation and technology continue to fuel worldwide competition among cities for the status of an international financial centre. This study introduces novel data on revenues earned from international finance in 2000-14 by city, and investigates their determinants. It shows that IFCs develop...

Purpose -- This paper addresses the paradox that individuals face in seeking to both generate new ideas and be committed to delivering standardised processes in a creative industry. We explore this tension in order to better understand how synergistic benefits are reaped at the intersection of...

Private equity investment in technologies which deliver low carbon energy has grown as an area of both economic and social performance. This article offers a perspective on some of the challenges in the industry. It relies on case studies drawn from thirty five interviews with leading clean tech...

The Interlocking World City Network Model (IWCNM) and other office location approaches (OLAs) have become the most widely used empirical models of the world city network (WCN) over the last two decades. Despite numerous methodological improvements, they still rely on Taylor's (2001) legacy of...