Innovation
Cleantech Innovations New England
The NECEF has received an $1,250,000 award from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (“EDA”) to fund a New England-wide innovation consortium aimed at accelerating clean energy startup activity. This award was one of six i6 Green Challenge grants presented by EDA nationally to proposals aimed at regional economic development through innovative, groundbreaking ideas that accelerate technology commercialization, new venture formation, and job creation across the United States in the cleantech space.
U-Launch
U-Launch is an innovative partnership launched in late 2010 to accelerate the spinout and commercialization of clean energy technologies from New England university labs by providing a flexible set of technical, business, financial and infrastructure services and funding to help promising but unproven cleantech innovations cross the chasm from lab to early market.
U-Launch is a collaboration between four partners with complementary cleantech expertise: Fraunhofer TechBridge, the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC), the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), and the Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England (ACTION). Learn more.