Oregon InC Weekly Media Clips: August 30 - September 5, 2008
Another Voice Warns of an Innovation Slowdown
New York Times- By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER August 31, 2008
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Judy Estrin, 53, has spent her entire career in Silicon Valley, a region that thrives on constant innovation. Ms. Estrin, the former chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, has founded four technology companies. Yet she is deeply worried that Silicon Valley — and the United States as a whole — no longer foster the kind of innovation necessary to develop groundbreaking technologies and sustain economic growth. [more]
Will the solar boom's glow dim?
Sunday, August 31, 2008 RICHARD READ The Oregonian
Oregon, which weathered the tech boom and bust, may be headed for bubble trouble in solar manufacturing even as the industry takes hold here. Experts predict a worldwide glut of solar panels and a short-term shakeout of the U.S. sun-power industry that could slow investment in factories of the type state officials are scrambling to attract. [more]
Wind-Power Politics
New York Times- By MARK SVENVOLD September 12, 2008
"The moment I read that paper," the wind entrepreneur Peter Mandelstam recalled, "I knew in my gut where my next wind project would be." I was having lunch with Mandelstam last fall to discuss offshore wind in general and how he and his tiny company, Bluewater Wind, came to focus on Delaware as a likely place for a nascent and beleaguered offshore wind industry to establish itself. Mandelstam had been running late all morning. [more]
Portland State's stock soars
A $25 million gift from the Miller Foundation could help transform Oregon's view of higher educationThursday, September 11, 2008 The Oregonian. It's been hard to see, sometimes, how Portland could sustain its stature in sustainability. For all of the city's many breakthroughs, it's seemed possible that rival regions would soon shred Portland's greenest ambitions. Or so, at any rate, it seemed Tuesday. [more]
Farming heads out to sea
Experts gather in Newport to discuss offshore aquaculture
By CASSANDRA PROFITA The Daily Astorian
In 1973, French scientist Jacques Cousteau said: "With the earth's burgeoning human population to feed, we must turn to the sea with new understanding and new technology. We need to farm the ocean as we farm the land."
At the time, his advice was largely dismissed. [more]
NB hosts wave energy conference
Friday, September 12, 2008
There’s money to be made off wave energy along the Oregon Coast. The future of clean, renewable ocean wave energy will be discussed in depth at the Ocean Renewable Energy Conference to be held in North Bend on Sept. 25-26. [more]
Applicants sought for sustainability awards
Monday, September 15, 2008 BY DJC STAFF
Applications are currently being accepted for the second annual Governor’s Sustainability Awards.
Hosted by the Oregon Sustainability Board and the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department, the event is intended to promote and advance the use of sustainable practices in government and the private sector. The awards event will be held on Dec. 11, as part of the Oregon Business Council’s Leadership Summit. [more]
Bet On Oregon’s Clean Future
September 17, 2008
I’m putting my money on Oregon to be one of the strongest environmental leaders among all 50 states in the battle against climate change.
I recently sat down at a Portland coffee shop with David Van’t Hof, the renewable energy and sustainability adviser to Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski. I first witnessed Dave in action on a huge dais during the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) August meeting in San Diego. He was clearly one of the most respected speakers there, explaining the details of WCI’s new cap-and-trade emissions program for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. [more]
New Research Puts Down Roots
Oregon’s Newest Signature Research Center aims to support the state’s most innovative sustainable industries
Sustainable Industries Magazine
A new research center aims to cement Oregon’s place at the helm of green development. The Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies (BEST) Signature Research Center was established in November 2007 as part of the Oregon Innovation Council’s plan for strategic economic development. BEST seeks to mesh the research and development strengths of the state’s universities with the vibrancy of its greentech industries.
Feds donate money for wave energy center in Oregon
Oregon State University gets $6.25 million to establish a research site in Newport
Friday, September 19, 2008 GAIL KINSEY HILLThe Oregonian Staff
Oregon's effort to become a leader in wave energy development got a boost from the U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday with the announcement of a five-year, $6.25 million grant to establish an ocean energy research center in Newport. [more]
OEN honors achievement in entrepreneurship
Posted by The Silicon Forest Blog September 18, 2008
The Oregon Entrepreneurs Network named five winners Thursday for its 15th annual Tom Holce Awards for Entrepreneurship, which recognize outstanding young companies and one individual who make key contributions to the region's startup culture. [more]
It's time to capture power of ocean waves
Reese Halter, For The Calgary Herald Sunday, August 31, 2008
Imagine that 15 per cent of the world's energy is just waiting to be harnessed from the constant ebb and flow of the ocean.
Entrepreneurs, engineers, physicists, oceanographers and now eager investors are getting behind some truly innovative technologies that are powering homes, factories, universities and hospitals. [more]
Manufacturers eye new home
Prime location next to OMSI could be first digs for manufacturing center
Friday, September 19, 2008 Portland Business Journal - by Erik Siemers
Prime real estate next to the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry could soon be home to a long-awaited Center for Manufacturing.
The Manufacturing 21 Coalition, a public-private partnership that fosters the state’s manufacturing sector, is in talks with OMSI over leasing a century-old building in the inner eastside museum’s north parking lot. [more]
HemCon parlays quick success into product, market expansion
Friday, September 19, 2008 Portland Business Journal - by Holly Johnson
HemCon Medical Technologies Inc. is branching out beyond the battlefield.
The Portland company, known for its revolutionary bandages made from material found in shrimp cells, is expanding both globally and in product diversity. [more]
Off Oregon's coast, wave power makes a splash
Monday, September 22, 2008 GAIL KINSEY HILL The Oregonian
Two years ago, coastal residents had a gold rush on their hands.
Developers, eager to turn wave energy into electricity and certain that Oregon offered a powerhouse resource, laid claim to promising sites from Newport to Coos Bay. Today, a shakeout is under way. And a county known more for its cheese than its moxie has grabbed a chance to play prospector, not spectator. [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
