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A conference entitled ‘SHIFTing the Support of Entrepreneurship in Eco-Innovation – The Roles of Universities, Incubators, Business Development Organisations, Design Service Providers, Funders and Interagents’ will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 13 January 2016, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The conference is the final event for the ‘Support Systems for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Transformation’ (SHIFT) project, a research project supported by the ECO-INNOVERA Network. The SHIFT project partners are the Borderstep Institute Germany, Aalto University, Finland, and Linköping University, Sweden.

The conference programme will include presentations on trends in sustainable innovation and support systems for green entrepreneurship, as well as interactive dialogue sessions with researchers and stakeholders, and policy outlooks on green SMEs and circular economy issues from the European Commission.

Please register now, the workshop is free of charge.

Venue: Stockholm Region EU Office; Avenue Marnix 28; 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Germany is realizing an energy revolution. Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) offers a “Germany’s Energiewende – The Energy Transition” series of webinars which has been specially tailored to address the needs of international companies in the fields of renewable energies, smart grids, energy storage, and energy-efficiency technologies.

Borderstep collaborates with GTAI on initiatives in the clean technology sector fostering an exchange of ideas and trade between Germany and California, a region whose sustainability goals and technological innovation is similarly ambitions as those of Germany.

Please visit GTAI’s website and register for the free webinar series. Join now.

The Newsletter No. 65 of the German Center of Research and Innovation New York of August 2015 focuses on entrepreneurship. It presents the Borderstep Institut and its research activities in this field.

The article focuses on the transatlantic landing pad program, which was established by Borderstep and LACI. The landing pad program aims to simplify the process for young and established companies to approach-and eventually enter-cleantech lead markets in California and Germany.

On 21 and 22 October, the LACI Cleantech Global Showcase 2015 will be held in Los Angeles. The Borderstep Institute will present the latest research results in the fields of cleantech and green start-ups.

The event of Borderstep Partners Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) brings together founders, investors and policy makers and among the most important cleantech event in the US. The focus of the Global Cleantech Showcase topics such as access to funders, the ecosystem for investors and new technologies. Flagship projects from around the world present themselves to the cleantech community. Networking receptions offer contacts between donors and startups .

Tickets can be booked here.

GloSho 2015 Program

Borderstep IT expert Dr. Ralph Hintemann and Borderstep founder Prof. Dr. Klaus Fichter present on September 7, 2015 Copenhagen Conference on the EnviroInfo & ICT4S latest research findings to the development of the energy requirement of computer terminals.

The lecture is based on a research paper "Energy demand of Workplace Computer Solutions - A comprehensive assessment including both end-user devices and the power consumption they induce in datacenters." It deals with the question of how the energy consumption of computer terminals evolved.

Here, not only the energy demand of the terminal is considered, but also the energy demand which is caused by the use of the terminal in data centers. This energy demand is increasing significantly. For efficient devices it is already much higher than the energy demand of the terminal itself. The use of a tablet causes a four times higher energy consumption in data centers than on the tablet itself, according to a study by the Institute Borderstep.

This year, the two leading conferences covering Green IT, the EnviroInfo and ICT4S, come together to form a common event. From September 7 to September 9, 2015 the participants meet in Copenhagen. Title of the conference: "Building the Knowledge Base for Environmental Action and Sustainability" on various aspects of Green IT.

From the 14th to the 17th of June the XXVI ISPIM Innovation Conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary.

Borderstep Institute representatives Klaus Fichter and Linda Bergset will present fresh empirical results from the EU research project SHIFT on the topic of sustainable entrepreneurship.

The title of the Special Session, which is dedicated to the project, is “Support systems for sustainable entrepreneurship and eco-innovation”. Here, empirical evidence on “green” incubators and “green” entrepreneurial finance will be presented and discussed.

In another format (the so-called “hot topic discussion circle”) the topic of „green“ entrepreneurial support at universities will be discussed.

From the 10th to the 13th of June the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference is taking place in Wellesley close to Boston in the US.

At Babson Conference 2015, Linda Bergset, researcher at the Borderstep Institute, will present fresh empirical research from the EU project SHIFT on the topic of financing green start-ups. The title of the presentation is “Access to finance in green start-ups and young green companies – a three country study”.

The conference, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, is considered to be the “premier entrepreneurship research conference in the world”.

A new report by the Borderstep Institute for Innovation & Sustainability for the first time provides a coherent overview of German products and services in the area of international climate technology transfer and climate-related technologies.

The publication, funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy (Germany), is now available not only in German, but in English, in French, and in Spanish as well.

You are invited to download the publication free of charge.

This publication provides an overview of the supply and the demand of climate technologies and services in Germany.

It includes information about technologies and services to protect the climate and their suppliers from Germany; technologies and services for adaptation to climate change and their suppliers from Germany, cooperation activities with the participation of German partners in these areas, and activities to monitor climate change with German participation.

On May 21st and 22nd Linda Bergset, researcher at the Borderstep Institute, will be presenting a paper on the topic of sustainable entrepreneurship and the financing of green start-ups at the Born to be Green workshop in the UK.

The title of the paper is “The rationality and irrationality of financing green start-ups”.

The workshop on the economics and management of green start-ups is organised by the University of Southampton in collaboration with the British Academy of Management and will take place in Southampton, UK.

Borderstep was awarded the first prize of the category “ideas and research about data centers” of the German Data Center Award. The ceremony was part of the data center congress futurethinking.

The honored research paper was written by Borderstep IT expert Ralph Hintemann: “Data Center Power Plant: Data Centers as Backbone of Germany’s Energiewende”.