Definitions

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  • noun manufacturing Technologies that support increased productivity or profitability while also reducing resource consumption or pollution

Etymologies

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clean +‎ tech

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Examples

  • It is credited with originating the term cleantech and owns it as a registered trademark.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • It is credited with originating the term cleantech and owns it as a registered trademark.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • It is credited with originating the term cleantech and owns it as a registered trademark.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • It is credited with originating the term cleantech and owns it as a registered trademark.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • People in cleantech circles often point out that the electric utilities spend a smaller portion of revenue on research and development than pet-food companies do.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • “The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • It might, but the fact that 63 percent of VCs are planning to increase their investment in cleantech, while substantially decreasing investments in other sectors, makes me think of several thousand people on a sinking ship rushing to grab a place on 10 lifeboats.

    Don’t Blame Venture Woes on the Economy; It’s the VCs’ Fault 2009

  • People in cleantech circles often point out that the electric utilities spend a smaller portion of revenue on research and development than pet-food companies do.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • It has go much bigger in cleantech, what with its vastly longer cycle, but thinking “smaller & a lot more” for the web 2. 0-type deals.

    Answer To Silicon Valley’s Liquidity Question: Think Smaller 2009

  • “The trouble with projections is that they extrapolate from the current reality, and often end up undershooting the mark,” Sunil Paul, a founding partner of Spring Ventures, a firm that invests in cleantech, told me.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

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