Oregon InC Weekly Media Clips: August 16 - 29, 2008
The Energy Challenge- Wind Energy Bumps Into Power Grid’s Limits
New York Times- By MATTHEW L. WALD August 26, 2008
When the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind farm spent $320 million to put nearly 200 wind turbines in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple Ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk wind blowing. [more]
Tax incentive program boosts Oregon State research
Tech Transfer News
University officials and policy makers looking for effective state programs to fund promising research need look no further than Oregon, where a new tax incentive scheme is working wonders for Oregon State University's efforts to commercialize its discoveries. Launched in October 2007, the University Venture Development Fund, or UVDF, offers Oregon residents a 60% state tax credit for gifts to the fund, all of which is earmarked for helping to move university research to the marketplace.
Clean Energy Patent Growth Index 2d Quarter 2008
GE overtakes Honda for quarterly patent crown
August 28, 2008
Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., an intellectual property law firm based in Albany, New York, is pleased to announce results for the second quarter of 2008 for the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI) by the firm's Cleantech Group. [more]
Obama gives Portlander convention speech spot
Friday, August 22, 2008 HARRY ESTEVE The Oregonian
A Portland venture capitalist who specializes in green energy investments has been given a coveted primetime speaking slot at next week's Democratic National Convention.
Nancy Floyd, 53, says she's not all that politically active but got a call a few days ago from Sen. Barack Obama's campaign inviting her to address the convention Tuesday night. [more]
Annual conference to showcase wave energy benefits
The future of clean, renewable ocean wave energy will be discussed in depth at the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference, held in Coos Bay this year. This is the third-annual ocean energy conference, which has been held in Corvallis and Newport in previous years. Gov. Ted Kulongoski has made the development of wave energy a priority and the Oregon Innovation Council designated $4.2 million to support the responsible development of this emerging industry. [more]
OHSU Commercial Collaborations Have Surged
Industry research collaborations or sponsored research agreements entered into by Oregon Health & Science University produced income in fiscal year 2008 of nearly $10 million, the OHSU Office of Technology & Research Collaborations (TRC) reported today. That represented a 48.6 percent increase over the $6.7 million produced in the previous fiscal year and a 243 percent increase over the $2.9 million total five years ago. [more]
Venture capital is blowing through the Columbia Gorge
by Keri Brenner, Monday August 25, 2008, 9:48 PM
HOOD RIVER -- To venture capitalists like Mark Adams, the Columbia Gorge looks like an attractive and fertile trolling ground for startup investment, especially in the fast-moving clean-technology sector. Adams heads Hillsboro-based Intel Capital, which recently has announced backing for solar energy companies in Hillsboro and Germany and a "smart grid" energy firm in California. [more]
Governor creates energy council
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Portland Business Journal
Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Wednesday said he will create a new advisory council to help guide the state’s future energy strategy. Called the Oregon Planning and Energy Council, or OPEC for short, the group will report regularly to both Kulongoski and the Legislature to recommend both legislative and budgetary needs for energy policy. [more]
State economists forecast "low growth or recession"
Thursday, August 28, 2008 Portland Business Journal
State economists said Thursday that Oregon will continue to see a drop in employment through the first quarter of 2009, adding that the economy likely will not improve until the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010. Economists said President Bush’s stimulus checks will give the economy a "mild boost" in the third quarter of 2008, but "risks remain that once the stimulus checks are over, the economy will sink back into low growth or recession in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009." [more]
Governor says Oregon must push for energy changes
8/28/2008, The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Ted Kulongoski says Oregon must take the initiative for energy policy changes without waiting for a response from the federal government.
"Delay will only make the hole we're in deeper," Kulongoski told an energy summit he convened on Wednesday. [more]
OSU Open Source Lab Grows With Support From Google
Published: Tuesday, August 19 2008
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University Open Source Lab’s capacity to support open source projects is being expanded through a donation of $300,000 from Google. That increases the company’s cumulative support of academia's leading open source development center to $750,000. [more]
Kansas audit grapples with effects of economic incentives
By DAVID KLEPPER The Star’s Topeka
TOPEKA | Before Nebraska Furniture Mart opened in Kansas City, Kan., Johnson County furniture stores sold 42 percent of the furniture sold in Kansas. Now, Johnson County sells 18 percent of the furniture sold statewide. Wyandotte County, which was responsible for a mere 1.5 percent of furniture sales before, now sells nearly 50 percent. [more]
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Courtney Warner
Innovation Council Coordinator
Oregon Economic and Community Development Department
work: 503-229-6063
cell: 503-333-7097
courtney.warner@state.or.us
