We are leveraging biotechnology to provide the highest return on investment for managing water. To that end, Cambrian is working on other projects that leverage exoelectrogenic microbes to treat wastewater.
and investment to get from bench to bedside Herr says. Starting a company is one way of enhancing that efficiency.
the pharmaceutical company can continue investing in the trial with confidence that the drug will ultimately pass muster.
Through MIT network of entrepreneurs, investors, and lawyers, e were able to assemble a great team of advisers to refine our plans
along with information on the fixes that could offer the most return on investment. But the startup also works with the U s. Department of defense to help identify energy-wasting buildings on their bases.
"While traditional equipment requires an investment of around $100, 000, the new mobile device would likely cost ten times less, around $10, 000.0
He suggests that reaching 5 percent power conversion efficiency would justify the investment for making small flexible solar panels to power devices such as smart phones.
and his crew plan to turn to public and private investors for the remaining $3. 6 billion necessary to complete the engine
Building the craft itself would require a much heftier investment: $14 billion. The quest for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceship
Lockheed martin which won the contract for supporting the U s. Antarctic program in 2011 could decide it s not financially feasible to reopen the station given the large investment already made in opening it once.#
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced that it is dropping all of its investments in fossil fuels-about $60. 2 million or 7 percent of the total $860 million endowment in favor of renewable energy.
For lenders interested in making sure loan repayments happen on schedule moving collateral can present an investment risk.
Now The New york times reports that some lenders are protecting their investments by making sure the cars are never really out of their control.
That might strain the ship s components. 2011 Developers begin building Star Citizen in secret revealing just enough details to entice investors. 10/10/12 Crowdfunding campaign begins
This news comes on the heals of Google investment in Magic Leap last month as well the announcement of Andy Rubin departure r
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Google Deepmind was a British AI start-up with some high-profile investors and a whiz kid founder (Demis Hassabis) and theirâ forte was smart recommendations for online commerce.
£28 million investment. The result? Tell us what you think it is.##The device moves around a bit
and pursuing robot fusion networking through a private#public investment of $2. 6b US over the next five years.
These last few months have seen so many announcements from countries investing in robotics with head spinning numbers it gave
The wave started with the EU announcing a huge â#2. 8 billionâ investment program for the next 7 years.
You canâ see hereâ that they went big with the numbers with $257m of investment planned for robotics!
Their new plan is to help existing robotics businesses increase their sales as well as investing in disaster recover
We are way past the MULTI-BILLION dollars in investments by now. Thanks Sebastian. Â s
In addition to the 700 billion won investment for Robot Land there will be a record-setting 3 trillion won invested into the whole Masan region in effort to revive the local economy.
and bring large-scale investments for Gusan Marine Tourism Complex ultimately boosting the economy of Changwon region as a whole Mr. Shin Jong-woo the director of Maritime Affairs
and state-of-the-art systems are not flexible enough to adapt to changing processes making large financial investments in these systems infeasible even
Factory-in-a-Day aims to develop a system that can be purposed easily re for new product lines  by reducing the system integration time to a single day the project hopes to minimize investment risk for SMES.
when it comes to investing in novel delivery systems their $775 million investment last year in Kiva Systems brought large-scale automation to their warehouse floors in an effort to improve efficiency.
#Play-i want to bring a robot to every child After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures many of us have been waiting for Play
This makes their investment future-proof.#####UR is building 100+robots a month of which approximately 25-30%are for customers in the U s. Both UR
The money for renewable investments is there said, Bjerke, but he also emphasized that the infrastructure is not. think we should look more into the distribution systems:
That where we need the investors and the support of the international community. But if infrastructure takes investment to build
investors want to see infrastructure already in place . or an energy project to succeed on a larger scale,
you have to have solid transmission and distribution networks. You have to have reasonable, clear regulations so people know what theye getting into,
and willing to take risks through our investments. We try to demonstrate that renewable energy is part of the solution.
As a result, businesses are scaling their wealth by investing in new economic growth strategies. What are these strategies?
what is known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Giula Moi, who with Sommer brought the recommendations forward,
China one of the largest providers of public financing for infrastructure worldwide agreed to work towards strictly controlling public investment flowing into projects with high pollution and carbon emissions both domestically and internationally,
"The study could discourage investment in CDR technologies, such as carbon-sucking machines under development by Carbon Engineering in Calgary, Canada.
"I think if you look at acquisitions outside of the traditional telco business on a single investment basis this is the largest that we have done."
The venture capital research firm CB Insights lists 53 US-based unicorns, saying the hefty valuations have been fueled by a flood of private equity investors seeking an early piece of the next
The use of the term"unicorn"began with a blog from investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in late 2013,
"You have a frenzy of investors looking for the next Facebook. They saw the possibility of a return of 1,
"But these are incredibly risky investments. All of these firms are not going to get a multibillion dollar buyout or massive public offering.
Some equity investors are getting nervous over the trend.""I do think you'll see some dead unicorns this year,
said in a blog post that both investors and startups are pushing too hard, ignoring traditional standards of risk."
"Prominent equity investor Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape during the dot-com era, expressed similar concerns in a series of tweets last year, saying too many startups are"burning
Mark Cuban, an early dot-com entrepreneur, said on his blog that the current situation is"worse than the tech bubble of 2000"because of"angel"investors investing in apps
and crowd funders are currently under water in their investments, "he wrote.""Because there is ZERO liquidity for any of those investments.
None. Zero. Zip.""Precipitous drop There appears to have already been some shakeout. The online retail startup Fab. com,
Many startups have been able to raise cash from eager investors without heading to Wall street for a public share offering.
Still, he said that these types of investments are part of the process of innovation and"creative destruction
"Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing because"we are in the early days of one of the most robust periods of innovation
The California group drew an investment from China's Alibaba last month at a valuation of $15 billion, according to Bloomberg News.*Palantir:
The California group founded in 2004 and financed in part by the CIA's investment arm In-Q-Tel develops technology used for counterterrorism as well as the financial sector.*
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
$11 billion The bulletin board-style social network confirmed in March a fresh investment round at a valuation of $11 billion,
$10 billion One of the early online storage services, Dropbox's latest investment round came at a valuation of $10 billion, according to CB Insights.
Earlier this year, 3play developed a return-on-investment calculator, so your average Youtube uploader can learn
from investing in the worst climate-polluting companies. In its annual white book on managing the fund,
is already bound by strict ethical regulations that bar it from investing in"particularly inhumane"weapons makers,
The white book also proposed an increase in the share of earmarked"green"investments calling for between 30 and 60 billion kroner (between $3. 7 billion/3. 5 billion euros and 7. 0 billion euros/$7. 4 billion.
In addition, a group of experts was appointed to consider diversifying the fund's investments to include infrastructures
and provide investors with confidence in their investments. In addition, the group aims to create guidelines for inspecting factories during module manufacturing.
That is why it is essential that investors, along with everyone else in the solar industry, know with maximum assurance how long the PV systems will last and
Chinese stock markets tumbled for a second straight day on Wednesday as investors crowded the exits,
which has been slowing markedly as investment and exports weaken. On Wednesday, the Commerce Ministry added to those concerns,
Domestic and global investors are growing anxious that China's economy will suffer a hard landing.
and struggling to revive bricks-and-mortar investment. It is targeted officially to grow by 7 per cent this year,
Testing Beijing's Resolve Investors sold stocks across the board on Wednesday, including in companies partly owned by the China Securities Finance Corp (CSFC),
"said Samuel Chien, partner of hedge fund manager Shanghai Boom Trend Investment management Co. The weak sentiment spread on Wednesday to the foreign exchange market,
#Foreign investors Sell Record Amount of Indian Shares in August Foreign investors sold a record amount of Indian shares in August,
Foreign institutional investors sold a net Rs 16,877 crore ($2. 55 billion) in Indian shares in August, more than the previous monthly record of Rs 15,347 crore in October 2008
Analysts said the sales were largely a result of the overweight positions in India by foreign investors,
Foreign investors had been net buyers as early as July when India was seen as benefitting from outflows from China.
and investors are concerned that Prime minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda will fall short. Meanwhile a delay in the recovery in earnings has led Macquarie, Barclays and Ambit to downgrade Indian shares over the last few days s
Foreign investors-crucial in larger offerings-sold a record amount of shares in August, offloading even more than during the financial crisis.
and extended the subscription period for investors by two days. Just over a quarter of its book was covered on Tuesday evening.
Investment bankers said retail investors were pulling back, while institutions were being pickier.""It will be tricky and more selective in the coming few months.
"said one investment banker with a foreign lender.""Big IPOS demand may not get hit as much, but valuations certainly will."
"Bankers and investors in India had hoped previously for a bumper year for IPOS, with 13 companies already having listed so far this year-the most since 2011."
"said a second senior Mumbai-based investment banker.""We have to be careful about what we take to market."
people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The deal will be financed through a combination of new equity from Dell's owners-founder and chief executive Michael Dell, its investment firm MSD Partners, private equity firm
Silver lake and Singapore state-owned investor Temasek Holdings-as well as the issuance of the tracking stock, new debt and cash on hand.
a manual analysis would take up to 500.000 work hours and an investment of millions of Euros.
Giving renewable energy generation a boostenel, a Council Lead Partner, is making a big investment to boost the amount of energy generated from renewable sources in emerging markets,
That scene, straight out of the connected car playbook, would seem to require a few more years of public investment in smart roads,
few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. What a difference a year can make.
receiving over $2. 36 billion of investment across 264 deals spanning the agriculture value chain,
According to data from the Cleantech Group, investment in Agtech was relatively flat before 2013. Most tech innovation in agriculture was concentrated narrowly in biotechnology and seed genetics,
and both investment and innovation was limited to players with close ties to the ag sector.
and it continued to show strong investment in early 2015. The momentum shift leading up to the phase-transition 2013 can be traced to a confluence of three underlying trends a groundswell of macro economic trends that tipped the balance between supply
but investors and entrepreneurs have started to take notice. In addition to secular trends driving the agriculture sector, the public at large is informed now better about the state of our food system
Many investors looking at these technologies are going to need to get smart on agriculture if theye going to make informed investment decisions.
Growth potential Agriculture has a long value chain and the sector is described often as being more horizontal than vertical (we tracked 16 subcategoriess diverse as biotech,
Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
and Ag-focused Paine & Partners announced a new $893m Private Equity Fund that will be allocating a portion of its investment to Agtech.
Investors are even jonesing for cannabis startups; Snoop Dogg announced a $25 million fund, and Founders Fund invested in Privateer Holdings$75 million fund,
This is also a lure for investors who are attracted to companies looking to solve big problems with big market potential.
Investors seem to think so, toohe company took in $90m from the likes Silicon valley heavyweights Khosla Ventures,
and this will be a test for the industry in the years to come as investors assess their portfolios.
It hard to overstate the importance of being able to directly track the return on your investment in this email marketing by equating it with dollars spent in your establishment.
Airware bussed investors, customers, and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.
After several more investors and customers spoke about their reasons for backing the company the group broke out into discussions.
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
but with investment, it could scale the production of the units. Voxon is now talking to Spacex regarding the potential of them using the Voxiebox to design satellite parts,
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
and print those changes without investing thousands of dollars in molds or machining parts out of expensive materials.
or willing to make a big investment in it. It an entry-level device for the curious, that might just get them excited enough to eventually upgrade to more complex 3d printer models and software.
We're doing it to show the investment community that EPGL is undervalued extremely in our opinion,"Hayes continued.
Today, EPGL is also announcing that it will begin to entertain offers from various investment bankers
and partners to help EPGL achieve the next level with the investment community, including higher market tiers."
The UC Davis Research Investments in the Sciences and Engineering (RISE) program, the UC Lab Fees Research Program and the National Science Foundation provided the funding for this research.
The UC Davis Research Investments in the Sciences and Engineering (RISE) program, the UC Lab Fees Research Program and the National Science Foundation provided the funding for this research.
David cameron and President Xi Jingping are expected to sign a deal this afternoon agreeing to Chinese investment in a new nuclear power station in Somerset.
It will be largest inward investment ever in the UK. France's EDF and CGN, a Chinese nuclear consortium, are poised to agree to build the plant,
Even for a massive company like EDF, this is a huge investment, which makes it inherently risky.
there is simply too much uncertainty to commit to such a huge investment without such comfort, investors would argue.
For this reason, EDF needs an added incentive to build the reactors. Knowing it will receive a guaranteed price for the electricity generated at Hinkley provides some kind of certainty that the investment will be worthwhile-in other words, profitable.
For its part, the government has been unable to play different energy companies off against each other, as German power giants RWE and E on decided long ago against building new plants in the UK.
and investors because they were concerned deeply about the impact of the European parliament's network neutrality proposals on start-up innovation in Europe,"Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick,
About Genentech in Lung cancer Lung cancer is a major area of focus and investment for Genentech, and we are committed to developing new approaches,
But other investors had to decide whether Jay z would be the right fit for Aspiro.
But as well as music, Jay z has built also a career as an entrepreneur and investor. He cofounded the Rocawear clothing line, co-owns the 40/40 line of bars and clubs,
Investors who together owned just over 10%of the company issued a statement saying that they would not authorise an acquisition by Jay z:"
Jay z hosted a secret meeting of future Tidal investors, artist managers, and record labels in Los angeles in February.
In it, the multimillionaire musicians who had become Tidal investors demanded changes to the music industry that essentially gave them more power and control."
New york, and Los angeles. Roc Nation executive Schlogel became Tidal's chief investment officer, and told Business Insider that Jay z worked"every day"on Tidal.
He also signed up as an investor in Tidal alongside the artists who appeared at the New york press conference.
Massdrop just closed its Series B round of investment this month; it will be using the $40 million it raised to further these goals.
It now only takes on average 1. 3 years for an industrial robot in China to pay back its investment, down from 11.8 years in 2008,
President Obama Clean Power Plan, announced last week, seeks to rive more aggressive investment in clean energy technologies than the proposed rule,
which for lack of investment and vision end up being hijacked by someone else. Examples of this lamentable tendency include the tank
At a later stage, the carmakers will invite private equity firm General Atlantic to join the consortium as an investor and potential mediator
#Why This Hearing Device Is Making Noise With Investors Ear surgeon Rodney Perkins has an impressive track record building companies around
Because of that vast potential, Perry nabbed $10 million in 2014 in a Series A round led by Upfront Ventures, with investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Marissa Mayer, Tony Hsieh and Mark Cuban, among others.
Perry and her investors are counting on ubeam technology to win the war. Wattup can transmit power only up to 15 feet
"Also, thanks to the investments in genomics through the University's Academic Plan, Brent Graveley can leverage his expertise
-54 per cent say that investment in Big data over the next three years will outstrip past investment-61 per cent acknowledge that Big data is now a driver of revenues in its own right
Greater confidence in safety and production standards would also attract ASEAN-based production investment from foreign firms. r
#Investment in robotics could avoid mistakes There an old saying that you can make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
But the really big deal is that this is the very first time non-accredited investors can invest.
With that, it sees 19,700 megawatts of wind going up before 2020 that will also demand investments in energy storage that can harness the power
and an investment that will pay off both environmentally and economically o
#3 Technology Trends Transforming Health care By Mahek Shah, MDTHE health care industry has always been changing,
#Long term Investors Should Prefer Facebook to Google Last week saw another slew of quarterly earnings releases.
For long-term investors, who hold stocks for years rather than months, these provide the opportunity to look at trends,
But, for long-term investors, growth is slowing and there is reason to be concerned about the long term growth prospects of Google as the market shifts toward both social and mobile.
4. Deferred Investments. Typically, utilities need enough power plants to serve their customers at peak hours, not at average hours.
they can also defer investments in transmission and distribution infrastructure designed to serve peak loads.
we assume that customers would pay for the storage investments just as they pay for transmission and distribution investments.
Customers would then receive offsetting reductions in retail electricity costs from the storage in the form of deferred investments, refunds from the wholesale market auction proceeds,
and reduced power purchase costs. Customers would additionally benefit through increased system reliability from avoided distribution outages.
Even at twice that price, he said, grid-level batteries offer utilities a return on investment now:
Ory Okolloh, Director of Investments, Omidyar Network Government; Professor Reid Whitlock, the new CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
the ripple effects of the long-term investments in a new generation of Africapitalists will be felt throughout the continent,
That said, investors remain bullish on the U s. drone sector. In the third quarter of 2014 alone, investors poured a record $65 million into drone tech startups.
Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon
which has announced just an $11 million growth investment from Enertech capital, has announced also just its LEDSENSE product.
So will massive investments in public health infrastructure, stronger regulatory regimes, and R&d for new and improved treatments.
In spite of the initial costs involved, the efficiency gains and quickly reduced cost of production make it a useful investment for hospitals.
has swallowed investment of £4m-£5m from amily, friends and connections, though royalties from K! and Star have brought in more than $20m over the last years.
and produces the finished product with a smaller investment. This proof of concept also shows that BMCS can be broken down to the sum of their parts,
a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,
According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,
provided we have the right level of investment and the right industry partners. Our main aim is to develop a prototype that can demonstrate that it is possible to go all the way with'Quantum CMOS
provided we have the right level of investment and the right industry partners. Our main aim is to develop a prototype that can demonstrate that it is possible to go all the way with'Quantum CMOS
Recouping that added investment, however, will be location-dependent. Generally speaking, single-axis trackers produce about 20 percent more energy compared to fixed-mount systems just about anywhere in the U s. However,
With the help from better tracking technologies, hopefully solar will continue its downward trajectory in costs to offset the reduction in the federal Investment Tax credit.
Innovus has raised between $40 million and $50 million from three unnamed investors, Hoffman said. They include two individuals he knew from his years working at General electric and aircraft engine maker Allied Signal,
as well as a third angel investor. The company's executive team includes CTO Mark Preston a veteran of Vestas, United technologies,
Under a California Public Utilities Commission decision last year, the state big investor-owned utilities are already turning in distribution resource plans (DRPS.
California utilities have made it pretty clear that they want to have direct access to whatever DERS they take on as grid investments,
smart thermostats and plug-in EVS to help defer distribution grid investments Ted Ko, policy director at behind-the-meter battery startup Stem,
While individual customers might make unwise investment decisions, ou won have ratepayers as a whole bearing the burden of that.
he suggested looking more toward the future than trying to fix the present. e should decrease interest in investing in small molecule chemical drugs
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