If you look at figure 4 in the document that I submitted to you, you'll see that our ownership of clean-tech IP is negligible compared to that of other countries, so if we want to invest in clean tech, absent an appropriation strategy, we're simply transferring the wealth to foreign countries.
People don't want to invest a dollar to turn it into 10 cents. That's a bad investment, but if you get the right appropriation structures up front, then you turn a dollar into 10 dollars. I never say invest more or invest less; I simply say, how can we get 10 dollars out of our dollar, rather than 10 cents?
Of course, if you fix the return models, it makes an overwhelmingly compelling case to invest more, but it's all about the upstream appropriation, institutions and capacity. If those are missing, you're building a house without a foundation.