Can clean tech VCs fund technology breakthroughs?
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Blog: Money is pouring into clean tech start-ups, but recent reports examine longer-term issues.
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Business & money: Campaigners sceptical about companies' new-found enthusiasm for environment.
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Science & environment: The technology could prove a greener way to power cars - if only it could get research funding here
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Has Energy Conversion Devices managed to deliver on its promising potential? I don't think so.
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When Paul Brewer, co-founder of high-tech security company ObjectVideo, gave speeches to business school students about how to find funding, he used to focus about 80 percent of his talk on the art of landing venture capital. Now he spends most of his time on how to attract federal government funding, especially through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The managers of the program are more daring than venture capitalists, said Brewer, because they are more likely to fund an idea at its inception, before it has proved anything.
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Avant-green market traders are going beyond mere carbon offsets. They've started buying up forests and rivers that keep the planet clean and diverse, and then selling shares in the natural services provided by these resources. Will it work?
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Watch out when litigation trumps innovation.
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Investment skyrockets Clean (read green) technology is the new investment hot spot, according to a report on US venture capitalist spending in 2006.â¦
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Green tech financiers share tips for spotting sustainable startups.
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Clean tech can't spread without government help, said experts at the Discover Brilliant sustainability conference.
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Blog: Cleantech venture capitalist says U.S. is 20 years behind and  better get on board if they want to take the lead and cash in
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Any organization willing to donate a patent for environmentally friendly technology can join the group.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development administers the program that encourages companies to donate patents to promote innovation that can benefit the environment.
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Swarming to the next new thing Over the past four years, venture capitalists have tossed huge amounts of cash at "green-tech" startups. The green, er, field has become saturated with speculative funding, rivaling even the two mainstays of Valley vulture capitalists: IT and life sciences.â¦
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Â·Hopes for trillion-dollar bounty from breakthroughÂ· Man-made microbes could produce clean fuel
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Venture capital investments in U.S. startups climbed to a six-year high of $29.4 billion in 2007, raising hope that ample money will still be available to back promising new ideas
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Is it a clean tech cluster yet? New England, like other regions, hopes so.