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Energy Fellows Institute Opens Applications for Executives and Entrepreneurs to Bridge Their Talent and Skills into Cleantech

Contact: Shelly Curtiss shelly@cleantechfellows.com 720-274-9796 Energy Fellows Institute encourages new venture formation, job creation and growth of the cleantech industry DENVER – (April 3, 2013) – As “Cleantech 2.0” blossoms from the lessons learned over the past decade, smart entrepreneurs and corporate executives are looking to leverage the lessons of the past and launch themselves to success in cleantech. The Cleantech Fellows Institute addresses a simple but compelling problem: more seasoned executives are needed everyday to bridge cleantech opportunities to a hungry global...

Colorado Cleantech Industry Association: The Cleantech Fellows Institute

Think You’re an Entrepreneur Extraordinaire? Try Cleantech

by Wayne Greenberg, Director, Cleantech Fellows Institute

No one ever said building a company was easy, but achieving success in cleantech has its own special set of challenges. If you have made your mark elsewhere and have considered cleantech as a possible next step, take a look at the Colorado Cleantech Fellows Institute.  Between our multiple national laboratories and top notch research universities, Colorado is a major force driving cleantech innovation. However, the cleantech industry as a whole is starved for seasoned executives with a demonstrated ability to commercialize new technologies. By drawing in experienced executives from other industries, educating them about the cleantech industry, and pairing them with promising technologies, the Institute aims to fill that gap and create Colorado based startups with the odds stacked in their favor.

Colorado Embraces Industry Execs Through the Cleantech Fellows Institute

by Chris Shapard, Executive Director, Colorado Cleantech Industry Association

When CCIA was formed almost four years ago, it was with the knowledge that Colorado had enormous clean technology development potential and an opportunity to harness those technologies to create jobs, tax base and state revenues. Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, University of Colorado and NREL were national leaders in clean technology research and development and were pumping out technologies in large numbers.  In addition, CCIA’s leaders realized that quite a few engineers and materials scientists were developing advanced energy and clean technologies independent of the state’s research institutions.  None of this has changed in the intervening years.