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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.

Cleantech markets are international: Borderstep is therefore, together with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), putting together an international network. Its purpose is to decrease barriers of entry and increase access to green key markets and funding opportunities for start-ups and SMEs.

This includes a multi-country Landing Pad Program which provides infrastructure and mentoring for start-ups seeking international expansion. Both organizations will jointly employ a member of staff who will further expand on the program and network.

On March 5 and 6, 2015 Borderstep and LACI was co-hosting an international workshop on the EUREF Campus in Berlin. The workshop brought together partners from Europe (Germany, Finland, Italy, Norway, UK), Asia (China, Japan) and North America (Mexico, USA) in order to further develop the joint menu of activities.

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”.

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.

The study on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) systematically measures the offerings by German actors in the areas of climate protection and adaptation.

The results show that German vendors are well positioned in a range of areas within climate protection and adaptation. There are numerous products and services in energy and resource efficiency as well as water and waste management deployed worldwide.

The results of the report were presented at the 20th UN World Climate Conference COP20 in Lima, Peru.