http://synthesistblog.com/innovation-opportunity-from-adjacency-127-0/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:14:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://synthesistblog.com/innovation-opportunity-from-adjacency-127-0/#comment-2954 Catch-up Innovation Systems for Emerging Markets | Synthesist Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:54:50 +0000 http://synthesistblog.com/?p=3191#comment-2954 [...] BYD Auto, that we posted about in SYNTHESiST last year, bought a car company – powered by internal combustion engines – and combined with their original expertise in computer batteries to develop an electric car. They did not pass through hybrid, fuel-cell path to get there. In a few years, they intend to produce only electric cars. And Warren Buffett already invested a few hundred million US$ for 10% of BYD Auto. Note: Incidentally, it was an “institutional instrument” designed to support German green industry, that recently expired, that provided a price umbrella globally for Chinese experience, i.e. production and sales volume growth, in solar panels and wind turbines. [...] [...] BYD Auto, that we posted about in SYNTHESiST last year, bought a car company – powered by internal combustion engines – and combined with their original expertise in computer batteries to develop an electric car. They did not pass through hybrid, fuel-cell path to get there. In a few years, they intend to produce only electric cars. And Warren Buffett already invested a few hundred million US$ for 10% of BYD Auto. Note: Incidentally, it was an “institutional instrument” designed to support German green industry, that recently expired, that provided a price umbrella globally for Chinese experience, i.e. production and sales volume growth, in solar panels and wind turbines. [...]

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