Ecosa Capital

Well-defined paths now exist through the electrical engineering and computer science departments, and from the medical schools to the business schools, to sources of risk capital, and to corporate customers capable of commercializing promising IT and biotech innovations. Programs such as Berkeley's QB3 and Stanford's MediaX, and UC Davis's CONNECT have been instrumental in facilitating licensing and venturinging activity.

However, that same network effect and commercialization assistance the network provides is not readily available to most researchers working in other disciplines of equal or greater value.

How can we identify new opportunities for innovation, assess market potential, and develop the best pathways for sustained implementation, dissemination, and improvement of clean technologies? How we can catalyze and accelerate cleantech commercialization resulting in a new network...a "Green Silicon Valley?"

What is needed is a sustained effort dedicated to identifying and launching market-driven solutions to solve environmental market failures.