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So, a much bigger opportunity to blend the idea of clean technology in the base of the pyramid together through new kinds of commercialization strategies. So, the Sustainable Innovation Learning Laboratory is focused around how do we bring, how do you make the case for these next generation inherently clean technologies within an existing large corporation. That's an important focus in and of itself, so not just venture capital finance of clean tech ventures because that's already going on, but how do you begin to bring this in more successfully into a large corporation because let's face it a lot of this, that's not to say we aren't interested in the new venturing part of it 'cause we are right, but we think that a big leverage point is going to be in the corporate sector because the exit for most clean tech ventures increasingly is not IPO but acquisition. So it's the large companies that are buying these companies out and unless they've got an appetite for it, they develop an increasing appetite for it that's the brake on the whole thing. So we think that how this moves into a large corporation, how it becomes a compelling business case is really important.