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Hot Topics: Cleantech

"Cleantech" has become shorthand for Clean Technology. While there is no standard definition of "clean technology," it has been described as "a diverse range of products, services, and processes that harness renewable materials and energy sources, dramatically reduce the use of natural resources, and cut or eliminate emissions and wastes." It notes that "Clean technologies are competitive with, if not superior to, their conventional counterparts.

The following sources will discuss the various issues surrounding "Cleantech".

Selected articles

Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.

 

Money makes clean-tech world go 'round. Ottawa Business Journal, 6/9/08
Venture capital in Canada isn't easy to come by.
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Investors want in on clean tech. Pensions & Investments, 5/12/08
Institutional investors committed $23 billion in capital to clean-technology funds last year, but some experts see that money competing with a wall of government funding and corporate investments from around the world.
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US Cleantech Investments Increase 18% in Q1 2008. PR Newswire, 5/6/08
Cleantech VC market experiences continued growth, despite decline in overall VC investment.
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States vie to attract clean-tech industries. Christian Science Monitor, 4/11/08
California and Massachusetts have the edge, but at least half of US states have entered the race.
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Clean Tech is the Only Hope for the Collapsing Economy. Wired, 3/18/08
Angel investor Eric Janszen, whose website correctly predicted the dotcom bust, thinks green technology is the bubble that could save us all.
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Green energy is making big money. San Francisco Chronicle, 3/12/08
Worldwide sales for companies specializing in biofuels, wind farms, solar panels and fuel cells grew 40 percent in 2007 to reach $77.3 billion, according to an annual report issued Tuesday by Clean Edge, a research firm that studies the green technology industry.
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Clean tech movement goes global. San Francisco Chronicle, 2/27/08
The green tech revolution that promises new, clean sources of energy seems to be spreading everywhere - including the oil-rich Middle East.
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Clean technology as economic stimulus. The Deal, 2/14/08
Hillary Clinton has proposed a $50 billion strategic energy fund and Barack Obama has a plan for a $10 billion private-public cleantech venture capital fund as part of a $150 billion overall investment.
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The Price of Biofuels. Technology Today, Jan/Feb 2008
Making ethanol from corn is expensive. Better biofuels are years away from the gas tank. Farmers are reluctant to change their practices. But do we really have any alternative to biofuels?
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U.S. to seek more donors to clean technology fund. Reuters, 1/29/08
The United States will try to persuade more rich nations to donate to a new international clean technology fund at the Group of Seven economic chiefs meeting next week in Japan.
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Seattle area a new hub for "clean" technology. Seattle Times, 1/2/08
In such technology hubs as San Francisco and Seattle, people who made their fortunes and business reputations in the dot-com era are again on the prowl for the next new thing — this time, the "clean-tech" revolution.
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Clean Tech Ends the Year Strong. Red Herring, 12/31/07
Investors in clean tech have reason to celebrate this New Year’s, with two of the sector’s leading U.S. indexes up over 50 percent for the year and analysts still bullish on clean tech’s prospects for 2008.
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Seeking the Green in Clean. WSJ Online, 12/3/07
Tech-Focused Venture Capitalists Plunge Into Risky Field of Alternative Energy.
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CleanTech Investments Break Record in 2007. NVCA, 11/28/07
CleanTech investments by US venture capital firms reached $2.6 billion
from 168 deals in the first three quarters of 2007, according to data from Thomson Financial and the National Venture Capital Association. This level of investment represents the highest dollar volume ever.
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Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC. Fortune, 11/13/07
Gore is joining the firm as Kleiner makes a risky move beyond information technology and health-care investing into the fast-growing and increasingly competitive arena of "clean technology."
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Most promising energy and clean technology companies named. Rice News , 10/3/07
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship announced its list of the 10 most promising energy and clean technology companies at its fifth Annual Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum last week in Houston.
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Global Venture Capital Investments in Clean Technology Surge. American Venture Magazine, 9/27/07
Global venture capital investments in clean technology companies surged to US$1.1 billion in the first six months of 2007 alone, according to mid-year research by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne.
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Rio Riches. Red Herring, 5/28/07
The article focuses on the growing interest of high-technology and clean technology investors in investing in Brazil. It is stated that venture capitalists and other investors are beginning to view Brazil as an ideal location for research and production of cleaner fuels, outsourcing of customer service and software development centers, and, to a lesser extent, manufacturing high-tech products for sale to emerging markets.
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Venture capitals. Economist, 5/26/07
This article reports on the race by states and cities to become the center of clean technology. Venture capital in the sector is high and the benefits to an host state would be huge. California and Massachusetts are currently leaders in this area.
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Head Starts for Clean-Tech Startups. BusinessWeek Online, 3/19/07
The latest take on traditional business plan competitions aims to turn ideas for decreasing the use of fossil fuels into working businesses
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Silicon Valley Rebounds, Led by Green Technology. New York Times, 1/29/07
After five years of job losses, Silicon Valley is hiring again. The turnaround coincides with a huge increase of investment in the emerging category of clean environment technology.
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