Clean Start™

A northern New England response to

EDA’s i6 Green RFP

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions

– UNH’s Green Launching Pad (GLP)

– Clear Innovation Partners (Clear)

• Clusters and i6

• Clean Start™ Consortium

• Next Steps

• Lunch

Green Launching PadOverview

UNH is leading a northern New England consortium of academic, research, technology and entrepreneurship support organizations to pursue a

nationally competitive, federally-funded regional innovation “cluster” grant

Brief History of Clustersand Clear

A cluster represents the eco-system of a sector within a region

1. Universities and Incubators

2. Technology and Trade Councils/Ass’ns (TCs

3. Risk capital providers

4. Professional Services Providers (banks, law, accounting, consulting)

5. Public sector, private sector and non-profit funders

6. Specialty research providers

7. Economic and Community Development

2008: Karen Mills co-authors Brookings Report

2009: Mills appoints Ginger Lew

2010: Multi-agency cluster RFP’s > $350M

2007: Bush Signs America Competes

1986: Reagan creates Council on Competitiveness

HBS’ Michael Porter Founding Member

2009: Mills heads SBA

2011: Obama Reauthorizes

America Competes

2011: “Authorizes the Secretary [of Commerce] to award competitive grants to eligible recipients for activities related to the development of regional innovation clusters”

2011: Multi-agency cluster RFP’s announced

In 2010, Clear led i6 Challenge: 30 players, 5 states, 3 sectors…

Universities and Colleges Professional Services (VC, Banks, Law and Accounting)

VT University of Vermont VT Fresh Tracks Capital

NH University of New Hampshire NH Borealis Ventures

RI University of Rhode Ilsand ME Bernstein Shur

VT Norwich University ME Macdonald Page

VT Champlain College Other

Tech and Trade Assocations ME Maine Technology Institute

NH New Hampshire High Tech Council MA Jackson Laboratories

VT Vermont Bio Science Alliance NH Dartmouth Medical School Office of New Ventures

ME Biotechnology Association of Maine ME Maine Medical Center

ME Maine Association of Manufacturing VT Vermont Venture Network

ME Maine Composites Alliance VT Vermont Manufacutring Extension Center

CT Connecticut Technology Councils Incubators and Accelerators

CT Connecticut Digital Media VT Vermont Center for Emergin Technologies

Regional Associations ME Maine Center for Enterprise Development

NE New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC) NH Dartmouth Regional Technology Center

NE Northeast Economic Developers Association (NEDA) MA Northshore Innoventures

US Technology Councils of North America (TECNA) RI Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

NE New England Venture Capital Association CT Connecticut Center for Advanced Technologies

Energy/Environment Health/Bio Sciences IT/Mobile/Web

And partnered with MHTC and NECEC to pursue two SBA cluster RFPs

NE Defense Tech Cluster NE Clean Energy Cluster

Top 20of 137

i6 Green Catalyzing green/clean energy

innovation and entrepreneurshipvia

Proof of Concept Centers (PCCs)

UNH is organizing a NNE consortium to win i6 Green in EDA Region 1

• Region 1: 13 states from New England to Virginia

• $1M EDA cash match (+ $1M DoE, NSF, USDA, and EPA)

• Seeking $1M of matching funds from public, private and non-profit sector partners

– 60% cash match pass through to PCC partners

• May 26th Final proposal due

i6 Green

EDA’s Slide Deck

Clean Start™ Consortium

Creating multiple PoCCsfrom northern New England’s

existing Energy and Entrepreneurship Assets

Modeled on Green Launching Pad™Clean Start™ is a program to

“create” up to four PCCs from existinginstitutions and organizations

by filling resource gaps

Clean Start™ model fills gaps for existing regional players….

…and is designed to align with their existing

strategy and programs

Maine Vermont

Maine GLP New Hampshire 1 Vermont 1

Proof of Concept Center Elements

Competitive Seed Grant Gap x Gap x

Mentorship x x Gap x

Education and Networking Events x x Gap Gap

Technical/Operational Assistance x x x x

Entrepreneurship Education Gap x x Gap

Sector Education Gap x Gap Gap

New Hampshire

Sources expected to include public, private and non profit sectors

State Entities

Foundations (direct or via EDCs)

Educational Institutions

Private sectorOther

Federal match

Sources of Funds

Uses relate to filling Proof of Concept Center gaps throughout the region

Seed Fund

Mentorship, OA/TA

Education and Networking

Other

Web services platform

UNH Fee

Regional Fee

Use of Funds

With an i6 win, organizers will help deliver the program with partners

• Design PCC program with partners to ensure alignment

• Provide PCCs assistance where required to organize and execute program

• Facilitate connection and collaboration among NNE PoCC members– Convening – Communications– Connections

• Administer program and report to federal and other program partners

Clean Start™ is differentiated and delivers good “bang for the buck”

• Broad consortium

• Multi-state

• Multi-PCC

• Multi-topic: wind, ocean, solar, biomass, energy efficiency…

• Rural and urban

• Scalable and replicable

• Bi-partisan

$1M shared by three states is modest but profile and impact is outsized

• Each state/entity benefits

• Region benefits

• National profile

• Cluster awards beget cluster awards

• Innovation, economic growth, high wage jobs

Letters of Support vary according to the type of partner

• Tech and Trade Councils

• Economic and Community Development

• Professional Services Partners

• Venture Capital and Individual Investors

• University academic, business and research programs

• Incubators and Accelerators

• State agencies

• Partner with seed grant and events

• Partner to offer OA/TA services and loans

• Partner to provide legal, accounting,banking and consulting guidance and sponsoring events

• Partner on judging grant competions, participating in and events

• Partner in providing OA/TA, mentorship and business/tech resources

• Partner in providing space/service and event/seed grant support

• Partner to deliver state resources and assistance

Next Steps

• Finalize letters of support and cash match partners

• Finalize program elements with PoCC partners

• Submit proposal May 26th

• Winner announced September 2011

Thank you

Since 2008, Clear has written about, presented on, and organized clusters

Presenter

Organizer

Columnist

A 5-state consortium

NE Defense Tech Cluster NE Clean Energy Cluster

2010

2010

Kauffman on university-centered Proof of Concept Centers (PoCCs)

Proof of Concept Center-Competitive Seed Grants-Mentorship-Education and Networking-Technical and Operational Assistance-Business and Market Planning-Undergraduate and graduate student engagement

-Incubation?

Regional investment pool designed to serve the whole of NNE

• Regional events and networking

– For collaboration and connection

– For sector alignment and initiatives (e.g. bio-energy, wind)

• Communications platform

– Web and Mobile: directory, content, connection

– Regional and sector news and newsletters

– Common event directory/platform