They show which technologies should be regarded as competitors, which might be especially promising, and which have the largest potential markets. Assessment criteria for technology opportunities help evaluate the appropriateness of a technology for a particular market and entrepreneur. Useful criteria include the state and timing of the technological development, its physical and financial scale, its potential market size, and barriers to entry. Characteristics of the technology that make it sustainable. The following tools can be a source of ideas, an approach to filling out the details of a concept, and a framework for demonstrating the quality of the concept.
Markets are the key issue for technological entrepreneurs.
The following tools help answer these questions and minimize entrepreneurial risks. The pace of technical change in environmental sectors is accelerating. Even recently developed abatement technologies can be rendered quickly obsolete by new pollution prevention and, increasingly, sustainable technologies. The eco-entrepreneur should be aware of the opportunities resulting from these changes. In larger applications, the system is used in conjunction with existing equipment to recover residual refrigerants.