Open Source Collaborative Approach

The China Greentech Initiative employs an open, interactive and collaborative approach to research in the greentech Industry. Leveraging more than 80 partner companies and hundreds of individual participants throughout the public and private sectors the Intiative accessed broad and deep insights spanning the entire market space.

The China Greentech Initiative 2009 is the culmination of an open source, collaborative research process, started in 2008 and concluded in 2009, which has involved literally several hundred people in China and around the world. This process combined a dedicated strategic research team with ongoing and significant input from the Initiative's partners and strategic advisors. The research process included the collection and consolidation of data from a wide range of Chinese and English language sources; conducting of interviews with partners, strategic advisors and other industry experts; and in-depth analysis of the market. Based on this research and considerable rounds of interaction with partners and strategic advisors, the Initiative developed the key findings included in the report.

Notably, the Initiative hosted 21 sector working sessions -- three sessions for each of seven sectors -- involving partners and strategic advisors, between December 2008 and June 2009. These working sessions allowed the Initiative to gain input upfront to frame and prioritize issues, test preliminary insights as the research progressed and validate findings prior to the report's publication. Each session generally involved 25-30 participants, lasted five hours, was hosted simultaneously in Beijing and Shanghai, connected via videoconferencing and simultaneously translated into Chinese and English.