A Cleantech Commons “Cleantech Innovation Portal” innovator, PKA Softtouch, recently celebrated raising $750,000 from over 400 individual investors. (You can join PKA on the portal by registering your cleantech innovation here.) The company tells us that this pool of shareholders are now “PKA SoftTouch Co-owners“, with each investor…
Are you an innovator with a way to track carbon in nature? Then the WWF-Canada Nature x Carbon Tech Challenge is for you… The proposal period is open now through November 8th, 2021. If you would like to learn more, don’t miss WWF-Canada’s upcoming…
As the world transitions to a clean growth economy, Peterborough is set to contribute to that shift. The community of Peterborough, Ontario is home to rich natural resources, leading educational institutions, and a well-equipped business and innovation landscape. Peterborough is also home to world-class…
Cleantech Commons is pleased to invite you to join us at Venture Summit \ Virtual Connect being held December 7-9, 2021. We are offering a Special Offer to members of the Cleantech Commons Community: Register Now & Save 20% off (Use our exclusive discount code…
Cleantech Commons is pleased to invite you to join us at Venture Summit Virtual Connect Global, featuring a dedicated Cleantech Track from July 6 – 8, 2021. We are offering a Special Offer to members of the Cleantech Commons Community: 20% off the Early Bird Rates…
On April 22, 2021 – Earth Day – Cleantech Commons joined a select group of business leaders at the launch of Green Economy Peterborough. Cleantech Commons is a “founding member” of Green Economy Peterborough. The core focus of this new initiative is to help…
In an article titled “Canada needs to boost its clean technology sector,” The Globe & Mail writes that “resources like Cleantech Commons are essential in moving Canada up the commercialization ranks, and to bolster its reputation for innovation.” “Cleantech Commons,” The Globe writes, “is a research…
Recently, we launched our Cleantech Innovation Portal. Click here for more details. This provides innovators with a personalized dashboard to create and update their company profile, view emerging commercial and funding opportunities, and log their progress and achievements. The platform offers a seamless application…
New Cleantech Innovation Portal provides access to commercial opportunities for cleantech companies through a virtual marketplace that brings together city-makers, innovators and investors to accelerate the impact of innovation in communities. Cleantech Commons has launched the “Cleantech Innovation Portal” to help Canadian ventures in…
In a recent article titled “Canada needs to boost its clean technology sector,” The Globe & Mail identifies Trent University as “[an] academic institution leading the charge for cleantech commercialization.” “Recognizing the need to nurture commercialization in the clean technology sector, [Trent’s] Cleantech Commons…
A newly-announced partnership is bringing accelerator services to Cleantech Commons. This collaboration is designed to boost a key service offering to future research park tenants. Cleantech Commons is the new 85-acre research park affiliated with Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. The organization recently signed…
“Cleantech Commons hasn’t let a global pandemic slow its development down,” writes Keaton Robbins of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development. In an article entitled “Cleantech Commons Construction On Track, Multi-tenant Announcement Looming“, Martin Yuill, the research park’s executive director, tells Robbins: “despite everything that…
Cleantech Commons and StrikeUP partner to put women entrepreneurs at the forefront of Canada’s economic recovery. With its vision of becoming Canada’s premier site for green technology innovation and entrepreneurship, Cleantech Commons at Trent University is hoping to inspire young women entrepreneurs of tomorrow…
The Solar Impulse Foundation has awarded “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, an advanced digital biology company, the “Solar Impulse Efficient Solution” Label, furthering its mission to help create a balanced ecosystem by solving the environmental and nutritional challenges of our global food system. Disclosure: Noblegen…
Cleantech Commons is pleased to invite you to join us at Venture Summit Virtual Connect West, featuring a dedicated Cleantech Track: March 16 -18, 2021. Exclusive Special Offer to members of the Cleantech Commons Community: 20% off Early Bird Rates (Use discount code “CTCVIP”). We are…
A partnership between Trent University and the City of Peterborough, Cleantech Commons is a collaboration that aims to create local jobs in the growing cleantech sector. With the global cleantech market projected to exceed $3.3 trillion by 2022, Cleantech Commons at Trent University is set…
At the start of this new – and hopefully “improved” – year, we would like to take a moment to thank our entire community for your continued interest in, and support for, all things Cleantech Commons™. We greatly appreciate all your engagement, enthusiasm, and…
FoodForwarding, which presents the FoodTech 500, has nominated a “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, as one of its 2020 “FoodTech 500” finalists. Disclosure: Noblegen is registered on our Cleantech Innovation Portal. You can join Noblegen on the portal by registering your cleantech innovation here. Inspired by the…
Food Navigator, which provides news & analysis on food & beverage development, has identified a “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant,” Noblegen, as one of its “Food Tech Company To Watch in 2021“. Noblegen is an advanced nutritional ingredient company, Read the full Food Navigator story here!…
Cleantech Commons™ has partnered with Rain It In – an annual competition that challenges post-secondary students to create innovative solutions that will mitigate the impacts of intense rainfall events and flooding caused by climate change. As part of our support, Cleantech Commons executive director,…
A “Future Cleantech Commons™ Tenant“, PKA SoftTouch Inc., has been awarded a “Top 10 Best Invention” award at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN 2020) for their Micro-Needle Device. The award was the only one made to a Canadian company, and the invention…
By Shawn McCarthy | October 05, 2020 Note: This article originally appeared in the Toronto Star. Where a pessimist sees risk, an optimist perceives opportunity. Canada’s cleantech entrepreneurs are the ultimate optimists, trying to provide the world with solutions for its growing environmental crises.…
Offering a picturesque location adjacent to the main campus of Trent University on the banks of the Otonobee River, Cleantech Commons™ is designed to be a point of convergence for academic and industry partners driving innovation in clean, green & low-carbon technologies, water technologies,…
Cleantech Commons™ is designed to host a cluster of growth companies, spin-out & startup ventures, and corporate accelerators & “innovation outposts”, all focused on researching, creating and commercializing clean technology products, services and technologies that aim to increase performance while reducing negative environmental impacts.…
Tenants at Cleantech Commons™ will be able to work with world-class and internationally-recognized researchers, students and facilities at Trent University’s School of the Environment, Water Quality Centre, Centre for Biomaterials Research, Inorganic Materials Research Laboratory, and The Emery Lab, as well as with Fleming College’s…
Cleantech Commons has partnered with youngStartup Ventures for the “Venture Summit Virtual Connect 3.0 – Where Innovation Meets Capital“, featuring a dedicated Cleantech Track, taking place as an online “digital edition” November 17th -19th, 2020. The Cleantech Commons community can take advantage of a…
In an article titled “Peterborough Watertech Company Rainmaker Seeing Major Growth Through Pandemic“, our friends at Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development profile Peterborough-based air-to-water and water-to-water cleantech company and “Friend of Cleantech Commons“, Rainmaker Worldwide. “The Peterborough-based water technology company,” PKED writes, is…
We reported in our May 2020 “Community Update” on the progress being made in providing municipal services to Cleantech Commons, the new clean technology research park currently under development on Trent University’s East Bank. You can read how Cleantech Commons is anchoring Peterborough’s cleantech…