DOE launches new round of America's top energy innovator

DOE announced that February 1 launch of the second year for his "America's next top energy innovator," a program, the startup company to license groundbreaking technologies developed, providing by the DOE national laboratories. In the initiative entrepreneur can use numbers $1,000 for a technology and it, to build a business. As part of the project, DOE reduces the cost and the paperwork requirements for start-up companies Agreement option, some of the 15,000 patents and patent applications, by national laboratories license held to get. In the first round, option 36 companies signed agreements with the national laboratories.

In the new round must entrepreneurs and startups identify the technology of interest and send a business plan for the program be taken into account. The participants have to send their plans to a laboratory until 10th December 2012. The Department will from 1 February until December 10 in advance reduce the overall cost of licensing DOE patents in a particular technology for portfolios of up to three patents owned by a single laboratory. This means an average savings of $10,000 to $50,000 fees in advance. Other terms, such as equity and royalty, will be negotiated on a case by case basis and usually once the company is growing and commercial turnover. See the DOE press release.

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Vote now for America's next top energy innovator

Vote is "America's next top energy innovator" under way in the online challenge, to identify a DOE sponsored search to see the innovative and promising start-up companies. Voting ends at 8: 59 am EST on February 6. The top startup companies from participating in the challenge on the basis of the public vote and an expert for the review, 14 are invited, when the 2012 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, a meeting of the clean energy February marked investors and innovators, the end.

Companies in the challenge are a variety of technologies, from reduce HVAC energy consumption for the use of composite materials for low-cost to build breakthrough lithium-ion batteries. The participants in the challenge option allow them valuable, innovative technologies to license developed and patented national laboratories and the Y-12 national security complex Agency by a DOE signed. See the DOE press release ©, and profiles of the participants.

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DOE's Top Energy Innovator Challenge Open to Public Voting

DOE announced on December 19 that it will give the American public the chance to vote for the most innovative and promising technologies supported by the "America's Next Top Energy Innovator" challenge. In all, 36 start-up companies elected to participate in this first-of-its-kind effort. These companies have signed 43 option agreements allowing them to license cutting-edge technologies developed and patented by one of DOE's 17 national laboratories and the Y-12 National Security Complex, one of four production facilities in the National Nuclear Security Administration's Nuclear Security Enterprise. Competitors used a streamlined application process and a greatly reduced upfront fee of $1,000.

Beginning in mid January, Americans will be able to view profiles of the companies and vote on those that could contribute most to the country’s economic and energy future. An expert panel will evaluate the companies and identify those that have most advanced their business plans. See the top innovator Web page.

Among the companies competing are Vorbeck Materials, based in Jessup, Maryland, which is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-developed method for building tiny chemical structures to greatly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. And, Boulder, Colorado-based e-Chromic LLC will use electrochromic technology developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to create a new thin film window material that reflects sunlight on demand, making windows more energy efficient while reducing cooling costs for consumers. See the DOE press release and a White House blog on start-ups.

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