2011 Commercialization Grant Recipients

Oregon BEST named four Oregon business-university teams to receive its inaugural round of Commercialization Grants in January 2011:

Indow Windows
Trillium FiberFuels
Corvallis Tool Company
Green Lite Motors

The $250,000 in funding is aimed at fast-tracking development of some of the state's most promising renewable energy and sustainable built environment technologies so companies can move to market rapidly and create new clean-tech jobs for Oregonians. The selected companies are working closely with Oregon BEST researchers to test and further develop technologies ranging from thermal window inserts and high-density poplar wood to an enzyme that could dramatically lower the cost of biofuel production and a control system for a hybrid gas-electric urban commuter vehicle. Read the full story.

RECENT NEWS ABOUT 2011 GRANT RECIPIENTS:

	An innovative window insert technology developed by Indow Windows was a finalist at Angel Oregon, placed second at the Bend Venture Conference, won the Innovation in Sustainabile Product Award from the Portland Business Journal, is a national finalist in the Clean Tech Open competition, won approval from Clean Energy Works, and was named a 2011 "Top 10 Product" by Sustainable Industries Magazine.
	Trillium FiberFuels was awarded a $150,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grant in March 2011 to Develop Cellulosic Ethanol Technology (more), and the company was awarded another SBIR Grant in September, 2011 (more).
	Philomath, Ore.-based Corvallis Tool Company is working with the Green Building Materials Lab, an Oregon BEST signature research facility at OSU, to develop a new wood processing technology that could turn softwoods into valuable products for the sustainable built environment.
	Portland startup Green Lite Motors is using an Oregon BEST Commercialization Grant to work with researchers at OIT to refine its 100-mpg hybrid gas-electric vehicle technology. The grant has leveraged additional funding from the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC).