Next Forum: Nurturing Cleantech Innovation

How do you help our planet become more sustainable? How do you create jobs? How do you help clever entrepreneurs bring innovation to market?

Answer: Create a cleantech incubator.

Cleantech incubators are typically non-profit organizations that are dedicated to accelerating the success of early-stage companies engaged in the development of technology, products, or services for the cleantech industry. These incubators typically provide support to a portfolio of entrepreneurs and emerging companies through a variety of programs.

They rely on people like you.

Join us for our next Sustainability Forum, this Wednesday, March 6 at 8 am at the Cummings Center conference room. Our special guest speakers include Joan Popolo, ACTION (Assoc. of Cleantech Incubators of New England), Tom Kinneman, North Shore Innoventures, and Newburyport Cleantech Center.

Little Duck Leaves the Nest

Good news from our friends at the Newburyport CleanTech Center (NCTC) who have announced their first "graduate." A non-profit business incubator, the Newburyport CleanTech Center (NCTC) was established in 2011 "to promote sustainability and clean technology in the greater Boston area,” said Bob O’Brien, president of the NCTC.

Now they've proudly nudged Little Duck Organics out of their incubator nest. Little Duck Organics, an innovator in healthy snacks for kids, thrived while at the NCTC storage facilities and is moving on to bigger horizons in Brooklyn, NY.

“Little Duck Organics is a great example of how innovative cleantech companies and the NCTC can collaborate to create eco-friendly companies and create jobs to promote sustainability,” said O'Brien.

For more info, check out: http://newburyportcleantech.com