A growing number of stakeholders are prioritizing efficiency, including charterers (those that rent ships), banks, port authorities,
With this growing prioritization, these parties are starting to shift money towards and reward more-efficient vessels.
such as those behind Norsepower and Bore, are demonstrating the viability of efficiency technologiess well as the financial gains they offernd creating greater credibility for emerging technologies.
and investors to boost the profile of low-carbon opportunities and promote investment in the industry.
WHY CHARTERS SHOULD RIDE THIS WAVE Fuel buyers can buttress their balance sheet by adopting fuel-saving technologies,
automatically protecting them from the pressures of a tenuous oil market. What makes the proposition even more enticing is the fact that successful technologies
the industry will reap the rewards of lower fuel costsore sustainable than those from short-term price decreases,
However, kelp is pretty much on the money in terms of biomimicry. The Biowave wave energy device was inspired by the way that kelp sways and pivots with the movement of ocean swell waves.
Here in the US, wave energy is also getting a huge lift from us taxpayers in the form of a public-private shared test bed at Marine corps Base Hawaii and funding from the Energy department so group hug D
and within 15 to 30 years not 50 to 100 we risk making serious and damaging mistakes in climate and economic policy, in investment strategy and in geopolitics and defence.
where prices keep falling, quality keeps rising, change is rapid and market disruption is normal and constant.
As a group of technologies, more demand for renewables means lower prices and higher quality constantly evolving for a long time to come.
prices would go up because the newer reserves cost more to develop, such as deep sea oil. They may get cheaper through market shifts,
They are steeped in their analysis that they are the underpinning foundation of the economy which of course they have been.
Energy is the essential foundation of the economy but we now have a better, cheaper way of producing energy.
when you combine nergy as a technologywith most growth in energy demand being in developing economies.
easy to finance, more convenient, popular and clean energy and transport that will get even cheaper over time.
unpopular and dirty technology with increasing prices beat a disruptor that is cleaner, better, lower risk and falls in price every year?
instead paying out spare cash as dividends to shore up their stock price. With everyone doing this,
prices will fall, chasing the declining market, undermining the value of the fossil fuel industry, and reducing its political influence further.
But big oil versus big utilities aligned with big auto is not the only disruptive impact for investors.
battery manufacturers, copper and lithium miners, electronics producers, software developers, electric engine makers, smart grid builders and, of course, solar and wind power manufacturers, installers and financiers.
delivering ever lower prices and ever higher quality in a decadeslong period of innovation and deployment,
and switched their investments towards clean energy? Change is coming, and it about time. The world largest private bank, UBS, is also urging investors to join the clean, renewable energy movement.
They did so with a statement expressing that power plants in Europe might be completely extinct within the next 10 to 20 year (you can read more about that story here.
and although the price has not been announced, it's likely to be much cheaper than a pacemaker.
and the NHS is getting very tough on price, even when medication is known to be effective. v
and then enhancing them using DARPA investment and easily transitioning them via our roles to the scientific community,
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
However, this also means only the owner of the card-not even their friends or family-will be able to get money from these cash machines.
the earbuds were created by New york company Doppler Labs. The company is currently seeking £160, 000 ($250, 000) of funding on Kickstarter.
with more than £60 million ($94 million) of funding to find uses for the substance f
A team in Gridley California, is raising money on Indiegogo to put the safety device into production
Dr. Alpert Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, says that the technology offers everyday people an opportunity to bond with their dogs
and we're excited about using it to improve the bond between dogs and their humans,'says Dr. Barbara Sherman,
which is a common cause of human genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases.
477 Price: from £59, 995 ($93, 337)' We saw firsthand that when you sat in the passenger seat with a professional driver taking you around the track,
and other types materials to the electroloom soon. the project is currently looking for funding on kickstarter,
centered on raising money on developer kits, with a pledge deadline on June 15, 2015. image of the fabric microstructure the prototype interface a sample of the printed fabri
or by registering their fingerprints. the ola fingerprint lock currently looking for funding on its kickstarter campaign with a march 2016 shipping date. the companion app for ola the sensor uses radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin schematics of the ola fingerprint lock n
Yvonne helped to raise money for Kathy to own a pair of the esight glasses so now she is able to see her son anytime.
Yvonne is working to raise money for others that are blind to be able to purchase esight glasses for their daily use as well.
#Semi market grows 7. 9%nudging $340bn says Gartner Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled $339. 8 billion in 2014,
The top-25 semiconductor vendorscombined revenues increased 11.7%during the period. The world top-25 semiconductor vendors accounted for 72.1%of total market revenues in 2014, up from 69.7%in 2013,
Gartner said. s a group, DRAM vendors outperformed the rest of the semiconductor industry. This follows the trend seen in 2013 due to a booming DRAM market that saw revenue increase 31.7%during 2014 as the undersupply
and stable pricing continued, said Andrew Norwood, research VP at Gartner. n contrast to 2013,
which saw revenue decline in key device categories, including ASIC, discretes and microcomponents, all device categories saw positive growth in 2014,
Excluding memory revenue growth for the remainder of the market reached 5. 4, %but this is much better than 2013 growth of 0. 8%for non-memory revenue.
Intel saw a return to growth in 2014, following two years of revenue decline, with 4. 6%growth.
The company reorganized itself into five new business units in 2014 with the Datacenter Group continuing to be the most stable unit for the company.
although these processors are being shipped at significantly discounted prices with incentives. On the PC front, Intel continued to gain market share from AMD,
RAM revenues will hit $46 billion in 2014, an all-time high surpassing the previous record set back in 1995.
SK Hynix saw a second strong year of revenue growth propelled by the booming DRAM market.
DRAM accounts for about 80%of the company revenues. Micron moved up one place in the rankings in 2014 due to its 41%growth.
In 2014, DRAM accounted for just under 70%of Micron revenues, and NAND flash accounted for slightly under 30%.
and minerals and has secured substantial financial backing on the Indiegogo crowd-funding website. The pen-like device is called Vitastiq and uses a smartphone as an interface.
Following the funding they company is now preparing for volume production and a commercial launch of the product next month.
The technology will be commercialised by a company called Midiagnostics backed by Flemish investors Marc Couke and Michel Akkermans, Flemish investment company PMV and Imec.
Total investment is#60 million. It will take 18 months to two years to produce an IC to perform the testing
There is no need for additional capital investment since an existing i-line exposure system can be used for the new technology.
Similar to the RFID devices now used in bank cards for contactless payments, the tiny chips can contain all the information
The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene, i e. the addition of a property-altering molecule.
it creates so-called silane bonds between the graphene and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
since the adhesion is held together only by weak Van der waals bonds. e have solved now this problem by managing to create strong covalent bonds between the graphene film and the surface,
The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene, i e. the addition of a property-altering molecule.
it creates so-called silane bonds between the graphene and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
and industry partners from seven European union countries, with EU funding. Sara Colantonio and colleagues from the National Research Council of Italy,
By opening up private company investments to the rowd, Regulation A+promises to be a game changer for how emerging companies are funded.
It's the first nationally available form of equity crowdfunding to non-accredited investors. This will not be as easy as a Kickstarter campaign, however.
and watching the money flow in. Regulation A+involves the sale of equity or debt in your company and is governed by securities laws.
Raising $50 million under Regulation A is going to require your company to invest money in the process.
and there are no limits on the amount that an individual non-accredited investor can invest.
but non-accredited investors can only invest 10 percent of their income or net worth in each tier 2 offering.
it will have more onerous accounting, auditing and ongoing SEC reporting requirements. Both tiers have legal fees and SEC compliance costs,
and the cost of two years of audited financial statements (in tier 2). Related: Tax Trouble?
Avoid These 10 Common--and Costly--Mistakes. The tier 1 cost of complying with blue sky laws in all 50 states could run in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Because of blue sky compliance, tier 1 only makes sense for a business that is raising money in a contained geographic area
I believe most companies will use tier 2. The major expense of tier 2, two years of audited financials records,
000 per year are not uncommon for a revenue producing, young business. One CPA I discussed this with says innovators in the accounting industry will find ways to make these audits work. f a startup is new,
and does not have significant financial history, there is no reason an audit should be so expensive,
who left a big six firm to start an accounting business geared towards the JOBS Act market.
the right accountant and the right compliance company, will be at least $50, 000. While that seems like a lot for a startup to swallow,
The best news is Regulation A+allows a company to est the watersbefore spending a ton of money.
This means you can approach potential investors and gauge their interest before you spend thousands on putting together all of your filings with the SEC.
Reduce These 9 Startup Risks for a Better Shot at Investor Fundin r
#Beauty Is Only (3-D Printed) Skin Deep Global cosmetics giant L'oréal has waged a battle against gravity for more than a century, with countless creams, peels and potions as its weapons.
Its conceptnd early successas helped WISERG secure $14 million from investors, including $11 million in Series B funding in March.
For now, Lesueur and company are focused on grocery stores ecause theye large and have a high quantity of waste.
while helping their favorite business get the money it needs to grow. Freight Farms transforms shipping containers into self-contained farms that grow fresh produce using LEDS and hydroponics,
because this is almost double the price of per-square-foot real estate compared to Midtown. They said this is the stupidest move to get seven floors in this building,
We were uncomfortable faking it for financial gains with intermediate levels of evolution. We wanted the baby to be 9 months-plus before we could unveil to the world that there is a better way
He believes cognitive technologies could eventually automate everything from reviewing medical X-rays to commodities trading. he potential goes way beyond automating repetitive tasks,
The company offers a range of pricing models for existing IT services like IPCENTER including a fixed monthly charge for specified infrastructure
and customized tiered pricing. IPSOFT does not disclose revenue and still funnels 70 percent of all profits back into R&d.
The privately held firm has solicited never venture financing, instead relying on the largesse of two Dube family trusts to fuel its growth.
Dube insists he will never sell IPSOFT but says an IPO is likely in the next two to three years.
U s. senators have added $200 million in funding to their proposed fiscal 2016 budget to fund a detailed study of the cyber vulnerabilities of major weapons systems.
#France First to Introduce Mandatory Carbon Reporting for Investors Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors in France will be required to disclose how they are managing climate change risks.
The announcement was made by France finance minister Michel Sapin at the Climate Finance Day conference in Paris on May 22.
France is the first country in the world to introduce a carbon reporting obligation on financial institutions.
It could pave the way for other countries with well-developed responsible investment movements such as Sweden to follow suit.
France lead will strengthen the drive among investors worldwide to consider the environmental impacts of their investments and the risks to their businesses of failing to do so.
For many financial institutions, the first step on the road to understanding these risks is to commission a carbon footprint of their investment portfolios or loan books.
Many investors already recognize these risks and disclose how they are managing them on a voluntary basis. Almost 50 investors are signed up to the Montréal Pledge launched late last year
which commits them to measuring and publicly disclosing the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios on an annual basis. The new legal requirement is contained in Article 48 of The french Energy Transition Law
which was passed recently by The french parliament and is due to be debated by the senate. The original text is here.
An English translation provided by the 2°Investing Initiative is here. The draft legislation requires institutional investors to disclose how they consider environmental,
social and governance issues in decision-making processes. These issues include the risks of climate change associated with carbon-intensive assets
Investors will need also to set targets to measure progress and explain if they are achieved not.
and triple its green investments to reach#3 billion ($3. 28 billion) by 2020. In other announcements, BNP PARIBAS said it would sign the Montréal Pledge.
The growing market for responsible investment in France is one reason why Trucost is to open an office in Paris in June.
Our families, our communities and our businesses depend on this precious commodity. While we continue to identify
Funding will also work to shape a stream re-route of Mammoth Creek to connect properly to its natural stream source.
Funding will also serve as means to proactively stabilize the world-class recreational activities and spectacular scenic areas that serve as the region identity.
supporting water conservation initiatives outside of your company walls reinforce efforts being made inside to preserve this precious commodity throughout the production process.
and provide funding to Water. org, a global organization that increases water access and quality around the world.
an industry group that represents investor-owned US electric companies, also announced that its fleet electrification initiative has exceed the anticipated $50 million annual industry commitment.
and money by using statistical modeling. Elucidata can pinpoint factors that separate good wells from poor performers,
#Bitcoin price plummets as investors flee the currency Bitcoin prices have been taking a beating since the new year,
Then, in the past 36 hours, prices fell completely off a cliff, with the currency currently priced at $178. 67 at Coindesk.
Currently, there no explanation for the enormous price drop over this short period of time, but the ripple effects are already hitting miners.
The problem, for Bitcoin, is simple: there are prices at which the majority of mining operations are not possible.
In the beginning, it was GPUS that drastically increased BTC mining capability and kept the operation profitable,
When we published the results of our major Bitcoin study last year, we noted that BTC tended to be deflationary
and that prices should generally rise when mining rates increased. One of the assumptions of the underlying model
however, was that the intrinsic costs of mining BTC would establish a consistent price floor.
The advent of new business models, like cloud mining, allowed companies to dodge this bullet in the short term by shifting to business schemes where the marginal cost of operation was lower
and profitability was greater, even at a constant price per BTC. With the price in free-fall,
however, several cloud-based BTC operations have announced already they intend to suspend operations for at least some period of time.
What this means for Bitcoin long-term is unclear. There are undoubtedly some operations that will continue mining
so do not rise above the marginal cost of power. While this isn the first significant course correction for the currency,
However, the energy routers will probably be a substantial investment, especially considering most homes would need more than one
HP and Zspace have not announced a price or exact availability date, but they expect it to be in the market this spring.
and the lab is worth the price w
#Google calls on FCC to mandate line-sharing pits itself directly against Comcast and other ISPS In the ongoing battle between net neutrality advocates and the ISPS,
even as it claimed that Fios was costing it more and more money. Despite securing additional money specifically for Fios upgrades,
the company never spent more cash in real dollars it just used the state funding it received to pay for fiber,
then cut the money it woulde spent on other networks to allow them to degrade.
In Verizon case it actively turned to tearing them out. This kind of bait -and-switch is what makes complaints that regulation represents unfair intrusion into the free market so damned egregious.
crying about the need for a greater slice of the tax revenue and service fee pie,
access to these preexisting networks would allow it to deliver substantially better rates and lower prices to its customers.
#Microsoft tries to thwart Google by investing in Cyanogen Windows phone still hasn set the world on fire,
Reports are coming in that Microsoft will participate in a round of funding for Cyanogen, Inc. the commercial enterprise that formed out of the Cyanogenmod community.
but sources claim that Microsoft will be a inority investorin Cyanogen latest round of funding (estimated at $70 million).
By Strategy Analyticsaccount, roughly 37%of Android devices worldwide are using off-brand forks, so there obviously a lot of money at stake here.
If Microsoft can get a piece of that massive pie, all the better for its shareholders. With free access to Office and free upgrades to Windows 10, Microsoft is bowing to market realities.
money has to come from subscriptions services and support contracts. None of that is inherently bad,
so that layer doesn need to be built into the device itself, saving time, money, and materials. It also removes something that can go wrong with the device having one less layer built in means that one less part that can Break in the researcherstest,
The final price is also unknown, though previous estimations had put the cost of an Al-air system at roughly $1. 1 per kg of aluminum anode.
but would save money in the long run. While it not glass, the University of Rochester researchers have discovered a simple technique to make metal surfaces inherently superhydrophobic:
the price is the technology greatest drawback. A new cost-effective quantum dot (QD) hybrid LED could enable LED lighting system adoption on a mass scale.
but conserve energy and money later on. Quantum dots are nanocrystals that emit light when xcitedbased on their size,
for a price real people could ever actually afford
#Ford GPS aims headlamps around dark corners Now there are headlamps that will steer around the corner before you reach the corner,
the efficiency of solar power could be improved greatly, for an affordable price. Infrared light currently passes straight through most silicon solar cell technologies
and Douxmatok responds to both these needs. e come out below the price of sugar and this is a very important issue for the industry. f youe the same price as sugar all you get is compliments and nothing else.
Taste for taste but not weight for weightfor the moment, weight is Douxmatok biggest limitation.
Chipotle shed or, more accurately, never adopted the volume-optimization processes of its onetime largest shareholder Mcdonald.
and process because its prices are twice as high as that of Mcdonald. The big challenge we face is enacting change without changing prices.
Eliminating the need for expensive real-estate is a step in that direction. Optimizing the last-mile delivery for perishable food is another step.
it also ensures energy economies, since thanks to the lesser volume needing to be evacuated smaller vacuum pumps can be installed.
Krones is thus offering a space-saving solution with an attractive price-performance ratio for bottlers who want to try out new beverages with a solids content on test markets, for example.
Farmlogs raised $10 million in Series B about six months ago, bringing its total institutional funding to $15 million thus far.
And agriculture technology companies received $2. 36 billion of investments across 264 deals last year alone
#China's Climate Pledge Will Include New Commitment To Forests Look for China to make new investments in forestry
a metric that allows China to demonstrate movement away from carbon-emitting fuels even as total emissions continue to rise with economic growth.
Homes are generally the biggest financial investment that individuals will ever make, and saving even a few percentage points on a real estate agents fee is a big deal.
as well as the price points it sets. For a self healing screen to succeed, it would ave to be positioned at very nearly the price of current displays according to Todd Thibodeaux,
president of IT industry association Comptia. t would take adoption by Apple to drive it mainstream,
similar to the push they are now providing for mobile payments in the US. Limitless Possibilities Thibodeaux believes that at the current time self healing coatings for appliances
however, as prices are driven down. utomotive is potentially important, Professor Wass explains. arbon fiber composites have been used widely in Formula one and performance cars for many years,
and if that successful we want to go to 2400 satellitesbranson told CNBC on Thursday. he idea is to reach the billions of people who don have Internet access and to do so with good quality reception and good prices. elated:#
although there has been no formal involvement or investment in the project. Some years back our technical team developed our concept vessel (Orcelle)
The water-based inks are prepared from simple and inexpensive commodity chemicals. This discovery represents a creative twist on security
which is in fact the biggest engine of the Company profit. Microsoft announced a free one-year upgrade to its users.
a UC Davis Research Investments in Science and Engineering (RISE) grant; a postdoctoral fellowship from CAPES/Brazil;
and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression provided funding for the study.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research provided funding for the work p
e believe that joining our two companies will drive value for shareholders and ensure we continue to transform the lives of patients with short bowel syndrome, hypoparathyroidism,
At $46 per share, the deal price reflects a 51%premium to NPS Pharma share price of $30. 47 on December 16, 2014,
when speculation about a Shire acquisition of NPS surfacedut only a 9. 8%premium from NPSCLOSING price Friday of $41. 91.
a funder of bioethics research. ur recommendations attempt to balance the interests of different stakeholders with the public interest in having the best information possible regarding the effectiveness and safety of therapies.
The panel defined stakeholders to include funders and sponsors, as well as disease-focused patient advocacy groups, regulators,
including academia, industry, funding bodies, regulatory activities, scientific publications, clinicians, and patients, the IOM said e
#Ensuring the Price Is Right for Cancer drugs The biopharma industry was rattled in 2012 when oncologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) refused to prescribe Zaltrap (ziv-aflibercept) for metastatic colorectal cancer due to its initial $11, 000-per-month cost.
while maintaining its official price. A year later, some 120 investigators and other experts in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) publicly demanded lower cancer drug prices.
The group faulted high U s. prices in part on the failure of insurers and officials to negotiate drug prices with developers.
Now years of talk is finally translating into action on bringing down the price of cancer drugs.
Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager that processed some 1. 3 billion U s. prescriptions last year,
recently disclosed it is in talks with several developers of cancer drugs to base the prices of several treatments on their effectiveness.
The payer won say which drugs or companies are the subject of discussions, first reported last month by The Wall street journal. Brian Henry, Express Scriptsvp,
Drug makers have resisted traditionally value-based pricing, arguing they need to recoup R&d costs. The about-face reflects the convulsive changes wrought by U s. healthcare reform
and Europe embrace of government-led value-based drug pricing. In the U k.,the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) makes formulary determinations through a ost-effectivenessthreshold assessing estimated costs of treatments or services in relation to their expected health benefits.
Germany Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health care (IQWIG) applies eference pricing setting reimbursements for new drugs at the same level as the best existing comparator unless the new drugs show superiority to that comparator;
U s. payers can be expected to approve higher prices for cancer drugs than the European agencies, in part given the greater size and affluence of the nation economy.
Yet payers should also reward developers for innovation, and for treating smaller populations, Peter B. Bach, M d.,MAPP,
Dr. Bach published a commentary in Journal of the American Medical Association supporting indication-based pricing for cancer drugs.
the price of Erbitux (cetuximab) would dip from a typical treatment cost of $14, 292 to $10, 319 for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck.
But for its least effective indication of first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic SCC of the head and neck, according to Dr. Bach, the price would plunge from $42, 875 to $471. ervoy and Keytruda, theye
Under his value model, Herceptin price for metastatic breast cancer would drop from a typical $54, 118 to $905.
As for pricing rare-disease drugs higher, Dr. Bach added: dispassionate economist would say that inefficient.
But I think as a society, we want to invest to make sure that smaller groups of people aren left behind just
They can be expected to take different paths to pricing, hich means that there will not be a one-size-fits-all approach,
the U s is less likely to see drug developers offer the extent of free trials or money-back guarantees,
Numerous payers is one reason why prices set by U s. payers will likely be more palatable to drug developers than
then, will indication pricing have on cancer drug prices? ringing down the growth rate, yes. Actually reducing cancer drug prices across the board, very unlikely, Dr. Cohen concluded. n comparison to Europe, U s. prices will likely remain relatively high.
The growth rate will said shrink, he, as payer cut prices for less-effective treatmentsven after developers invest in IT systems, drug utilization programs,
The flipside of this is that the better treatments will still be commanding high prices, Dr. Cohen said.
Pricing decisions will hinge on data from providers: his is being presented as a way to manage money,
but in reality we should be doing this as a standard of care to create a continuous loop of improvement, Harry Glorikian,
Abbvie agreed to an undisclosed lower price for Viekira Pak, which lists at $83, 319 per 12-week course.
Henry said the lower price is consistent with discounts given for the drug in Europe for Sovaldi,
That price brought upon Gilead criticism from Express Scripts and three members of Congress, all Democrats in the Republican-majority House of representatives.
000-a-pill pricing by noting that the cost of Sovaldi is lower than the cost of complications associated with hepatitis C treatment, such as liver damage or liver failure.
A Congress that can do little surely cannot lower cancer drug prices as effectively as payers could.
and have had discussions with several stakeholders about alternative pricing and payment models. Our discussions about pricing
and we will not disclose discussions with specific stakeholders, Genentech spokeswoman Susan Willson told GEN. Roche has based an indication pricing system in Italy,
In a statement to GEN, Novartis said it is looking into linking payment to patient outcomes
and two other innovative pricing models: e understand that the cost of medicines can be challenging for some patients,
cautioned that some alternative pricing programs have helped developers skirt the prior-authorization rules of payers.
Representatives of two other top-selling cancer drug developers, Celgene and Amgen, at deadline had responded not to GEN queries on indication pricing
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