On March 25, 2011, the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, a joint initiative of the Stanford Law School and Graduate School of Business, hosted a public discussion called “Clean Energy: DC 2 VC,” with senior U.S. government energy and technology officials to inform entrepreneurs, investors and researchers about the Obama Administration’s policies, programs and initiatives to support clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship. Participants in this town hall meeting discussed barriers that need to be eliminated to spur innovation– like balky government permit processes and convoluted global supply chains – barriers that have hindered clean energy firms and have resulted in  a phenomenon entrepreneurs call the “Valley of Death.”

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