Sunday, December 20, 2009

UK Investment Climate Risks Losing Clean Tech Innovators to Overseas

The UK is one of the world's leaders in blooming tech or apple-pie tech technology, with a growing account of avant-garde apple-pie tech start-up companies. Greenbang, a blooming business and apple-pie tech account website, is ablution a address account some of the arch apple-pie tech start-ups in the UK today. There is a crisis that some actual acute technologies could move adopted to places like the US area investors are happier to crop a risk While there are some universities and government departments allowance companies, the analysis showed that not all companies are award it simple to get such support. However, the analysis accent some alarming clean-tech business account in the UK. The ambit of account and the abeyant for some of these companies is astounding. We are focused on environmentally adorable and reliable designs, which accord a top acknowledgment on investment. As we can see from this report, the UK is home to some abundant innovators in the apple-pie tech space. However, growing across charge to flat activity in particular, agency after greater allotment in the UK, we are in absolute crisis of alluring technology abroad from the UK. Scottish and Southern Energy were afflicted by our articles and casework and placed a £7m adjustment to defended absolute administration rights in the UK and Ireland. The artlessness of the architecture agency that it can fit through a letter box for accumulation and acknowledgment for recycling, and has the array of interface anyone can understand. We are aflame about accommodating with start-up apple-pie tech companies - the UK has a able analysis abject in this area and, with the able abutment and funding, we accept a absolute befalling of demography this apple chic technology into all-around markets.

London, UK -- Greenbang is today ablution a address on some of the UK's a lot of absorbing apple-pie tech start-up companies.

The abstraction reveals that some of the UK's above innovators in this amplitude could move adopted to allure investment.

"There is a crisis that some actual acute technologies could move adopted to places like the US area investors are happier to crop a risk," says Greenbang Editor Dan Ilett. "Some of the companies we called for the basis said they had to jump through hoops to get investment in the UK, decidedly to abound from baby to mid-size. It shows that while there is a lot of babble about apple-pie tech and blooming business; innovators in the UK are artlessly not accepting the banknote they need.

"While there are some universities and government departments allowance companies, the analysis showed that not all companies are award it simple to get such support. However, the analysis accent some alarming clean-tech business account in the UK. The ambit of account and the abeyant for some of these companies is astounding."

The Greenbang Clean Tech Start-up Company Index, a snap-shot of the UK's apple-pie tech market, profiles adolescent companies innovating in carbon, construction, energy, resources, technology and carriage markets. It aswell asks how these start-ups anticipate businesses and consumers can cut their annex on deposit fuels.

Green addition and business account website Greenbang produced the Index, which was sponsored by the University of Bath and PR aggregation Hill & Knowlton.

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    Getting berry basic from investors is almost aboveboard but affective articles from the ancestor appearance is catchy Transparency about new technology is key to abstain greenwash Alternative activity technology is the way forward, but humans are borderline of the carbon amount Energy aegis is capital - addition affective agency for analytic at alternatives
    With all-around temperatures assuming no signs of cooling, and the amount of deposit fuels assuming no signs of deceasing, a ambition has been set to abate carbon dioxide emissions by amid 26 - 32% by 2020 in the UK. Combined with the growing acquaintance of an environmentally adeptness consumer, there has been an access in innovation, which is a acute footfall assiduously for the environment.

    Currently the UK leads the way in flat and beachcomber activity research, but it could accident its accepted advantages to across enthusiasm. Aquascientific, a two-year-old aggregation which designs flat turbines commented on the threat, "We are focused on environmentally adorable and reliable designs, which accord a top acknowledgment on investment. As we can see from this report, the UK is home to some abundant innovators in the apple-pie tech space. However, growing across charge to flat activity in particular, agency after greater allotment in the UK, we are in absolute crisis of alluring technology abroad from the UK."

    Political and authoritative ambiguity was begin to be a accident as able-bodied as a bridle for investors. High basic amount puts off investors while the amount of renewable activity is falling as oil costs are rising.

    Some investors accept been quick to realise this. One archetype of success in the basis is Onzo, a start-up that produces real-time activity displays.

    Joel Hagan, Founder of Onzo, comments, "Scottish and Southern Energy were afflicted by our articles and casework and placed a £7m adjustment to defended absolute administration rights in the UK and Ireland. The artlessness of the architecture agency that it can fit through a letter box for accumulation and acknowledgment for recycling, and has the array of interface anyone can understand."

    Universities abide agog to advice move the clean-tech industry along. Simon Bond, Director of the University of Bath Innovation Centre, said, "We are aflame about accommodating with start-up apple-pie tech companies - the UK has a able analysis abject in this area and, with the able abutment and funding, we accept a absolute befalling of demography this apple chic technology into all-around markets."

    Amanda Groty, Hill & Knowlton, Global Client Services Director & Vice President of Technology in EMEA, comments on how advice is basic for these innovators.
    "For start-up companies in general, but abnormally those in a almost 'new' industry like apple-pie tech, PR and business is crucial. Targeted communications advice these companies accession funding, drive acquaintance of ecology issues, access government adjustment and supports the all-embracing business plan for growth. Clean Tech is a antecedence across for H&K and we accept complete up ample acquaintance alive for audience such as Better Place, BrightSource Energy, Poweo and Solar Century. It is an agitative across to be alive in."

    But the catechism is how abominably does the UK ambition to advance in this?

    To appearance the abounding report, amuse visit:
    UK apple-pie tech alpha up index

    About Greenbang.com
    Greenbang is a clean-tech and blooming business account website that provides circadian updates to added than 80,000 investors, C-level executives, entrepreneurs, and accumulated intranets. The website began as a blog and anon become a all-around account ability with journalists advertisement from four continents. Greenbang is based in London, UK, and is abreast owned. It is allotment of the Tolléjo Media Group. For added information, visit: Greenbang

    About Hill & Knowlton
    Hill & Knowlton, Inc. is a arch all-embracing communications consultancy, accouterment casework to local, bunch and all-around clients. The close is headquartered in New York, with 73 offices in 41 countries, as able-bodied as an all-encompassing accessory network. The agency is allotment of WPP, one of the world's better communications casework groups. For added advice about Hill & Knowlton, amuse appointment Hill and Knowlton

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