"American writer" . . "Ron Pernick is an American author and the co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge, a Portland, Oregon research and advisory firm that monitors clean technology markets. He is \"an accomplished market research, publishing, and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience\". At Clean Edge he has co-authored many reports on emerging green technologies and has worked with multinational companies, government agencies, and investors."@en . "Pernick, Ron"@en .