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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds. Suppose that there was only one bald man in the world.