8 Ways MIT Accelerates Clean Energy Entrepreneurship

Today's energy problems can't be tackled with technology alone. The energy crisis requires collaboration that fuses multiple disciplines that form solutions that fit economically, socially, and technologically within today's environment and restraints.

Entrepreneurs cannot go this alone either, they need to work with engineers, legal counsel, government agencies, social scientists, researchers, and others to make sure all pieces fit to ensure the adoption of clean technologies.

The MIT Clean Energy Prize is a step in the right direction, aimed at pulling all those resources together to catalyze clean energy entrepreneurship in a conducive environment. The competition combines academia, government, and industry to bring perspective and strategy from all angles.

Amongst the many industry sponsors, MIT teamed up with NSTAR and the United States Department of Energy to award $500,000 worth of prizes to turbocharge clean tech start-ups. These new companies not only have to be logically innovative, but need to be economically viable and utilize technology that can produce leverage in reducing today's energy dependence.

Today's energy problems can't be tackled with technology alone. The energy crisis requires collaboration that fuses multiple disciplines that form solutions that fit economically, socially, and technologically within today's environment and restraints.

Entrepreneurs cannot go this alone either, they need to work with engineers, legal counsel, government agencies, social scientists, researchers, and others to make sure all pieces fit to ensure the adoption of clean technologies.

The MIT Clean Energy Prize is a step in the right direction, aimed at pulling all those resources together to catalyze clean energy entrepreneurship in a conducive environment. The competition combines academia, government, and industry to bring perspective and strategy from all angles.

Amongst the many industry sponsors, MIT teamed up with NSTAR and the United States Department of Energy to award $500,000 worth of prizes to turbocharge clean tech start-ups. These new companies not only have to be