In terms of clean technology, the focus is disproportionate towards energy instead of water.
"Solar, wind, clean technology plays--we love the space, " says Troy Rillo, a Cornell managing director.
The other is to give these firms an incentive to invest in clean technology.
Khosla Ventures has invested in a variety of information technology and clean technology companies.
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For the foreseeable future, clean technology will flow mainly from the commercial to the military sector.
Most VCs see decreases in clean technology investment, medical devices and biopharmaceuticals, so tune your expectations accordingly.
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About 1, 310 units were sold last year, according to Dave Hurst, a clean technology analyst at Pike Research.
Third, the clean technology industry is likely to be a multi trillion dollar industry on the global level.
The major impasse to successfully growing a clean technology company is the capital intensive nature of the business.
Accelerating U.S. clean technology innovation, manufacturing, and market creation has become not just an environmental necessity but an economic imperative.
The life sciences and clean technology industries had the highest percentage of women investors at 18 percent and 15 percent respectively.
London is moving the needle on low-carbon clean technology and carbon-emissions reductions.
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But general calls for government to do more to juice clean technology gave way to deep disagreement over what government should do.
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His company invests in and develops clean technology projects in the region.
To date, StartX has supported more than 240 founders and 90 companies across fields from clean technology to IT services to biotechnology.
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And the optimal policy response then is to subsidise clean technology research.
Another clean technology, which uses synthetic gas to produce electricity, appears promising, but it is expensive for now and not widely available.
Indeed, China has seen the strongest increase in investment in clean technology worldwide and is already a leader in solar and wind technology.
China, meanwhile, says that it needs not just money but also clean technology, and accuses rich-countries of being tight-fisted with their intellectual property.
But only 16% expect increases in clean technology, while just 9% and 7% project medical-device and biopharmaceutical companies, respectively, to raise more funding.
By contrast, while Eesley worked at MIT, the school seemed to focus more on energy-related start-ups such as clean technology and more powerful batteries.
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These entrepreneurs are trailblazing into areas of clean technology that will ultimately be integral and fundamental aspects of the plastics, chemicals and fuel industries.
Let us create a new international clean technology fund, which will help developing nations like India and China make greater use of clean energy sources.
That is why I was so excited for the opportunity to join Trilliant, a global clean technology leader focused on delivering the Smart Grid.
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Dirty habits die hard and the only way to encourage auto makers to adopt clean technology is a short sharp shock in the fuel price.
The Clean Air Task Force -- an environmental organization advancing clean technology in the United States and China -- is pivotal to Duke Energy efforts.
With Asian and European competitors pulling farther and farther ahead in competitive clean technology sectors, the economic stakes of these investments are high.
And I suspect, as most media coverage I read suggests, this is also the exciting part for most casual observers of the clean technology sector.
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Progressive environmental policies from the Chinese government combined with an increasingly green-minded public is fueling what some are calling a clean technology renaissance around the country.
Investment in clean technology in Britain is growing at 30% a year, according to the Carbon Trust, a government-funded organization that helps businesses cut carbon emissions.
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