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The Vicious Cycle of Smart Glass 1.0
The struggles of Smart Glass 1.0 perfectly illustrate a vicious circle driven by three core challenges.


Root Cause #3: Low Product-Market Fit
Product price, risk, and value each played a pivotal role in the friction-filled adoption process of smart glass 1.0.


Root Cause #2: The Manufacturing Economics of Smart Glass
At the core of the smart glass commercialization struggles were issues related to manufacturability.


Root Cause #1: The Technology, Product, & Strategy Matrix
Tech/product/strategy choices of smart glass 1.0 companies are a root cause of their downfall.


The Positive Impacts of Smart Glass 1.0
While smart glass 1.0 was fraught with challenges, it is important to examine the positive impacts that came from it: six contributions.


Lessons Learned from Smart Glass 1.0
What lessons can we learn from the first generation of smart glass providers so that NEXT and other tech providers can succeed?


Company develops window wall technology that can produce solar energy: 'An innovation breakthrough'
NEXT has already made progress toward transforming modern buildings into solar-energy-generating structures with its NEXT OPV tech.


NEXT Energy Technologies Achieves its Latest Commercialization Milestone with Deployment of a Window Wall with 27” x 35” Format Transparent OPV Lites
The 27” X 35” format is significant for economical full-scale OPV manufacturing by the glass industry supply chain.


NEXT Energy Newsletter Q3 2023
The Q2 newsletter was my first update as the CEO at Next. As expected, the first months of the transition were incredibly busy as we...
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