"Targeting the 21st century's most important issues in energy, water, and sustainability, cleantech has emerged as one of the most important areas of growth, innovation, and investment, Lux Research's The Cleantech Report™ is a seminal piece of research that successfully provides financial, corporate, and government decision-makers with the data and case studies they need to make informed, strategic decisions."
- Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner at venture capital firm Technology Partners

Key Findings

Corporate leaders have quietly sought Lux Research to advise on clean technologies for years, drawing on our rigorous research methodologies and global innovator network. Now these insights from years of customized research have been synthesized into The Cleantech Report™.

Key findings found in The Cleantech Report™ include:

• Cleantech innovation has exploded; 1,500 cleantech start-ups operate worldwide, 29,874 scientific journal articles were published in 2006, and 4,093 U.S. patents focused on cleantech were issued
• A boom-and-bust scenario looms in energy technology - IPO value was up 156% in 2006, driven by solar and biofuels
• Untapped opportunities persist in air, water, and waste technologies, which have been comparatively starved for capital
• Asia/Pacific leads in cleantech R&D, topping out 2006 government funding (38%), corporate R&D spending (34%), and scientific publications (38%)
• Europe is the IPO leader, with a majority (55%) of IPO value in 2005 and 2006
• The U.S. leads only in 2006 venture capital deployed (72%) and patents issued (46%)

Who Relies on The Cleantech Report™ (TCR)?

• Corporate executives use TCR as a vital get-up-to-speed volume and as a guide to relevant technologies, start-ups, and competitors.
• Start-up leaders exploit TCR to gain competitive intelligence, track venture and government funding, and review innovation and financing activity.
• Investors of all kinds draw on TCR to learn how cleantech will will affect their existing portfolios, spot start-up companies worthy of private equity investment, and identify investment themes.
• Public sector institutions use TCR to get the big picture of how cleantech is creating jobs and attracting investment - and understand how these opportunities match up to domestic competencies.
• Consultants, law firms, insurers, and other service providers take advantage of TCR to get smart fast on this burgeoning field of technology information. TCR acts as a one-stop-shop for vital information.

Company Profiles

The Cleantech Report™ helps identify new opportunities by providing more than 200 in-depth profiles of cleantech leaders - from innovative start-ups to large corporations - representing a cross-section of the cleantech landscape. Each company profile includes:

Company location · Year founded · Parent company · Company type · Holding status · Ticker (if applicable) · Areas of activity · Key technologies · Key product families · Product availability status · Level of cleantech focus · Business models · Value chain roles · Company relationships (partnerships, distribution agreements, joint development agreements, etc.) · Company description · Revenue · Employees · Profitability · Key people · Venture capital funding · M&A/IPO transactions · Key events · Contact information

Technology Profiles

Cleantech has five top-level segments: energy, air, water, waste and sustainability. The Cleantech Report™ offers 20 detailed technology assessments across these five segments explaining key cleantech applications from the ground up, with market sizes, future growth rates, and key companies, people, and financial transactions. Each assessment includes:

Summary · Technology variations · Description · Advantages · Disadvantages · Competing technologies · Market size · Key companies · Key people · Technology drivers · Technology challenges · Intellectual property outlook · Strategic drivers · Strategic challenges · Momentum · Milestones · Venture capital funding · Key merger and acquisition (M&A) events · Key initial public offering (IPO) events

Funding, Patents, Publications and More

Long-term secular trends are driving investments in clean technologies from governments, corporations and investors. The Cleantech Report™ compiles these investments to calculate global cleantech funding from government, corporate and venture capital sources, spanning more than 40 countries. Also included in TCR are analyses that cover 134 initial public offerings, 59 M&A transactions, 29,874 academic publications, 4,093 patents and 3,485 press citations.

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For more information on the Cleantech Report™, contact Stephen McDermott at +1.646.723.0158 or stephen.mcdermott@luxresearchinc.com.