Do risks outweigh reward for shareholders?

Ocean Power Technology this week announced two more new funding awards from the US Department of Energy ("DoE"). The high risk (hopefully higher reward!) wave-energy technology business with a dual listing on AIM (OPT) and NASDAQ (OPTT) has already raised significant sums to develop its system. For shareholders to ultimately reap the rich rewards they deserve for supporting this high risk venture it seems that a lot of work still needs to be done