Cleantech

It is credited with originating the term cleantech and owns it as a registered trademark. ❋ Unknown (2010)

People in cleantech circles often point out that the electric utilities spend a smaller portion of revenue on research and development than pet-food companies do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It might, but the fact that 63 percent of VCs are planning to increase their investment in cleantech, while substantially decreasing investments in other sectors, makes me think of several thousand people on a sinking ship rushing to grab a place on 10 lifeboats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It has go much bigger in cleantech, what with its vastly longer cycle, but thinking “smaller & a lot more” for the web 2. 0-type deals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the investors on the panel at the conference said that in the long-term cleantech offered one of the biggest opportunities of their lifetimes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To grow the clean technology - or 'cleantech' - sector, a $680 million fund has been set aside for research and development (R&D) and manpower training. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because coal, oil, and natural gas generate most of our electricity and won’t disappear soon, cleantech is generally understood to consist of a “supply” side and a “demand” side. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Specifically, we contend that the nearly two dozen clean energy funds CEFs now running in a variety of mostly northern states stand as important actors in American cleantech and offer at least one partial response to the failure of Washington to deliver a sensible clean energy development approach. ❋ Lewis Milford (2012)

Answer: Vinod Khosla, an Indian-American venture capitalist with impeccable academic and technology credentials, who now runs a $1bn fund that invests in "green" technology (aka cleantech) and IT. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have been fortunate to spend the last week in the USA as part of a delegation to New York and Boston to examine the development of the so-called cleantech sector on the East Coast of America. ❋ Dylan Jones-Evans (2009)

Silicon Valley investors are pointing to something called cleantech -- alternative energy, more efficient power distribution and new ways to store electricity, all with minimal impact to the environment -- as a candidate for the next boom. ❋ Unknown (2010)