Cleantech Accelerator

Pairing organizations with leading sources of technology innovation

For organizations seeking sustainability solutions for use in their operations, or looking for new clean technologies to adopt in their product development and product line expansion, it can be hard to find the right clean technology partners. How does a large company, non-profit or government find the most appropriate cleantech, and the right provider at the right stage of commercialization, for its specific needs?

The Cleantech Accelerator

Cleantech Group's Cleantech Accelerator™ service identifies the best clean technology providers for an organizations' specific requirements. Cleantech Group leverages its resources—including the largest cleantech databases of technology providers—to contact, or attract appropriate technologies if necessary, and then screen them for an organization's needs.

As the company that founded the cleantech category, the Cleantech Group is uniquely positioned with vast industry assets and relationships to be able to facilitate this service.

Large organizations benefit from:

• Minimizing legwork, expense and time of calling on and visiting individual companies
• Learning about new specific technologies, or other opportunities meeting their requirements, as they arise
• Speeding the process of cleantech adoption, and
• Accelerated carbon neutral goals and positive public relations benefit

Research labs, entrepreneurs and established vendors benefit from speeding their time to large purchase orders from name-brand lead customers.

A Cleantech Accelerator engagement leverages the global platform and resources
of the Cleantech Group, including its Cleantech Network

Case study: Wal-Mart

An Accelerator program for Wal-Mart screened almost a thousand cleantech companies against a set of strict requirements for the retail giant. Submissions from vendors were actively solicited through a web portal and then reviewed for applicability by Cleantech Group staff. A final handful were passed to Wal-Mart for consideration.

Learn more about the Wal-Mart cleantech Accelerator program »

Next steps

Large organizations

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