Cleantech Competitions: Driving Open Innovation

With the number of cleantech companies growing, and the need for innovative thinking and creative cleantech ideas increasing, cleantech competitions are becoming a key component in delivering fresh minds and new ideas. Cleantech competitions are a key ingredient in the recipe for cleantech success.  These renewable energy focused competitions are bridging the gap between university [...]

Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives – Monthly Digest

This month on Skipso: 7 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to Skipso’s funding database Focus this week: EU Carbon Capture & Storage Funding, UK Start-up Funding Programme and Innovation Awards, Oregon Wave Energy Grants, Italian Environmental Fund, Scotland Low Carbon Skills Fund, Nordic Cleantech Open 12 grants and awards approaching application deadline 2 [...]

10 ways Global Cleantech Clusters are accelerating the Cleantech Revolution

by Shawn Lesser 1. Cleantech clusters create jobs – A Cluster is a great mechanism to support cleantech businesses and stimulate business growth. For example ECO World Styria in Graz, Austria, a cluster of more than 150 cleantech companies, has created 5,000 new jobs in the last four years. The companies have generated a turnover of [...]

Cleantech Grants, Awards, Incentives – October Monthly Update

This month on Skipso: 12 new Cleantech Grants, Awards and Incentives added to Skipso’s funding database Focus this week: Vestas Wind Competition, EU FP7 Programme and other EU Research Grants, Danish and Scandinavian Grants and Funding Programmes, UK Carbon Trust Wind Competition, US Market Access Competition, Scottish Marine Wave Prize 12 grants and awards approaching [...]

Rwanda Rural Electrification Challenge – Winners Announced!

Dear members, We would like to inform you that, after much consideration, the judging panel have made their decision and identified the winning solutions to the Rwanda Rural Electrification Challlenge. The excellent quality of these solutions has made selecting a winner a particularly challenging task.  However, we are pleased to announce that, on the basis [...]

The Green Lighting Challenge Launched Today!

The Skipso team is excited to annouce the launch of a new Cleantech innovation challenge today: The Green Lighting Challenge. GC Illumination is an Italian company specialised in the design, production and distribution of fixtures for exterior lighting. GC supplies utilities, municipalities and installation companies in Italy and internationally.GC is looking for innovative solutions and [...]

CO2 Offsetting Challenge Launched Today!

Following the successful launch of the Rwanda Rural Electrification Challenge (3 weeks left to submit your solution!), we are excited to announce the launch of a new Cleantech challenge on Skipso’s Cleantech Open innovation Lab: The CO2 Offsetting Projects Challenge Non-profit foundation myclimate – The Climate Protection Partnership is an international climate protection organization based [...]

The Rwanda Rural Electrification Challenge

The Rwanda Rural Electrification Challenge aims to address exactly this problem. Swiss-based NGO Mabawa (www.mabawa.org) is looking is looking to harness the power of open innovation to bring electricity to the rural village of Nyamyumba, Rwanda.

Launch of The Skipso Open Innovation Lab

The Skipso team is excited to announce the launch of its Open Innovation Lab – the first Open Innovation service focused exclusively on Sustainability and Clean Technology.

The Skipso Cleantech Open Innovation Lab enables organizations (Innovation Seekers) to accelerate their Cleantech innovation by tapping into a worldwide network of experts and innovators (Challenge Solvers)