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CleanTech Crowdfunding Coming of Age
With early stage capital for cleantech innovation becoming increasingly scarce, crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and a new crop of clean/green ones are beginning to emerge as significant sources of funding for selected...
Predictions For Cleantech In 2013
Every year around this time since 2007, as executive editor of a leading global cleantech research and news service, I’ve contributed to predictions on what to expect in the year ahead in cleantech.We’ve kept that tradition alive here at Kachan...
Cultivating agricultural cleantech
An expanding world population, coupled with increasing concerns about resource scarcity, land availability, biodiversity conservation and global warming is fostering interest in sustainable agriculture technologies.Large companies and clean...
A Cleantech State of the Union
With October now upon us, data providers are beginning to issue their preliminary analyses of cleantech investment in the third quarter of 2012 that just closed. This quarter, the Clean Energy pipeline service of London’s VBResearch is the first to...
Can Patent Registration Rates Predict the Success of the Cleantech Sector?
Anyone can look up at the sky and make a guess at tomorrow’s weather. But having actual data informs your opinion and makes your guess a little more accurate.Which is why, as a managing director of a leading cleantech data provider and responsible...
Two years later: Revisiting the taxonomy of cleantech
It's been two years since Kachan & Co. first published its definition of what industries and categories constitute cleantech.A lot happens in two years, so it's time to refresh our taxonomy.A clean technology taxonomy, a list of nested...
Rethinking the role of government in cleantech
Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology.Lobbyists and vendors in the U.S. are once again singing the blues, calling for continued and expanding government investments in clean technology. At...
The quiet clean mining revolution
Few industries have got the black eye, literally and metaphorically, of mining. After centuries of environmental effects ranging from toxic emissions to unsightly tailings ponds, acid mine drainage, massive energy consumption and other impacts,...
Predictions for Cleantech in 2012
It’s December again (how did that happen!?) and our annual time for reflection here at Kachan & Co. So as we close out 2011, let’s look towards what the new year may have in store for cleantech. There are eggshells across the sector for 2012....
A Fusion Reactor Hollywood Could Love
Some latest scuttlebutt from the world of nuclear fusion has all the ingredients of a Hollywood thriller screenplay (and for those who remember Inside Greentech’s Greentech Avenger, you know I know scuttlebutt!) There’ve been all kinds of cinematic...
Global Weekly: DuPont Extends into Solar Sector
The biggest deal of the past week was made by chemical giant DuPont, which acquired InnovaLight, a California-based company that develops a silicon nanocrystalline ink for flexible solar panels. DuPont already had revenue of more than $1 billion in...
Think locally, act globally in cleantech
I'm pretty fond of where I live. And I imagine you are too. You've chosen to be there! So it only stands to reason that we'd want to preserve and better our places. But there's a professional quandary therein: opportunities in cleantech aren't...
