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Going Green
Going Green: The Tech Garden
New York State is putting up the seed money to grow green jobs. Recently, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority awarded $1.5-million to the Center for Green Tech Entrepreneurship at The Tech Garden in Syracuse.
“To establish a clean energy business incubator program to provide business support to accelerate the successful development of early stage clean energy technology companies. New York ranks among the top three states in the country for patent filing in clean energy technology and one of our greatest challenges is how to capitalize on this intellectual resource by turning knowledge into jobs and that's where business incubators come in like the one we're announcing today,” said Francis Murray, Jr., NYSERDA President.
“As part of the NYSERDA grant we will be incubating companies which could come in with an idea or they could come to us with a prototype and needs to refine it or it could be that the product is ready but they need additional funding or assistance making connections with potential customers,” said Nasir Ali, Tech Garden President.
The Tech Garden, like similar incubator centers in Rochester, Buffalo, and Brooklyn, will use the grant to build up their network of businesses and educational institutions. They already partner with Binghamton, Clarkson, Cornell and Syracuse Universities as well as Morrisville and SUNY-ESF.
“Each of our universities has many, many technologies in the lab that are now looking for a way out into the market. Many of the companies that we're working with, in particular National Grid and others, are looking at smart grid technology to bring together partners that have more innovative solutions,” said Ali.
The next step is connecting with green technology entrepreneurs.
“The goal then is to work with them to identify where their gaps are and based upon the identification of those gaps we will try to connect then with the right partners and find the right resources,” said Ali.
