About Clean & Cool Mission 2010

The Clean & Cool Mission is a competition to identify and support the best fast-growing Clean & Cool companies in the UK. Clean & Cool Mission is run by Polecat in collaboration with the Technology Strategy Board, UK Trade & Investment, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, BP Alternative Energy, Arup, Volans, Enterprise UK and the Cleantech Group:



Polecat

Polecat is a market intelligence software company. Polecat’s product, MeaningMine, enables strategic decision-makers such as the Technology Strategy Board and other partners on the Clean & Cool Mission, to better understand the environment in which they are engaged, surfacing emerging and dominant trends, influencers and perception statistics. In spite of the anticipated growth in global markets for Clean & Cool solutions, timely, reliable and affordable market research is still generally lacking, leaving many investors, businesses and entrepreneurs ill-served when it comes to building investment strategies and business cases.  MeaningMine enables investors and entrepreneurs to judge the impact of Clean & Cool solutions currently in the market and track the relevant trends for building new Clean & Cool funds and businesses in the future. For the Clean & Cool Mission, the MeaningMine solution was deployed to identify and now monitor the online discussions, topics, trends, key people and organisations active within the UK Clean & Cool sector. MeaningMine is also being used to provide media monitoring services for the Clean & Cool Mission. For more information please visit www.meaningmine.com.



Technology Strategy Board

The Technology Strategy Board is a business-led executive non-departmental public body, established by the Government. Its role is to promote and support research into, and development and exploitation of, technology and innovation for the benefit of UK business, in order to increase economic growth and improve quality of life. It is sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). For more information please visit www.innovateuk.org.



UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the British government organisation that helps overseas companies bring high quality investment to the UK and also helps UK-based companies succeed in an increasingly global economy. UKTI provides a range of expert services, individually tailored to maximise a company’s international success. These services are offered through a network of international specialists in British Embassies and other diplomatic offices around the world, as well as key experts in government departments across the UK. For more information please visit www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk.



Orrick

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is a global law firm with more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices. Orrick’s Emerging Companies Group is a multidisciplinary group of lawyers that merges deep experience and commitment to high-growth businesses with a global platform that scales with its clients as they grow. Representing more than 600 venture-backed emerging companies worldwide, the Group runs a strong network with more than 100 venture capital firms, banking and accounting firms, national laboratories, universities and public companies in Europe, the United States and Asia. For more information, please visit www.orrick.com/emerging.



Arup

Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built environment and across industry. We offer a broad range of professional services that combine to make a real difference to our clients and the communities in which we work. We are truly global. From 90 offices in 35 countries our 10,000 planners, designers, engineers and consultants deliver innovative projects across the world with creativity and passion. Founded in 1946 with an enduring set of values, our unique trust ownership fosters a distinctive culture and an intellectual independence that encourages collaborative working. This is reflected in everything we do, allowing us to develop meaningful ideas, help shape agendas and deliver results that frequently surpass the expectations of our clients. The people at Arup are driven to find a better way and to deliver better solutions for our clients. We shape a better world.For more information please visit www.arup.com.



BP Alternative Energy

BP Alternative Energy, launched in November 2005, is a portfolio of some of the fastest growing energy businesses in the world today. The portfolio includes wind, solar, hydrogen power and alternative energies including advanced biofuels and the capture and storage of carbon dioxide from traditional fossil fuels. With a commitment to invest $8bn up to 2015 in renewable energy sources, Alternative Energy is an integral part of BP. To find out more visit www.bpalternativenergy.com.



Cleantech Group

The Cleantech Group pioneered clean technology as an investment category in 2002. The company has played an influential role in the development of the sector, fostering growth through information products, world class industry connections and custom advisory services. Since its inception, the Cleantech Group has focused on providing insight, business opportunities and relationships that catalyze the growth of cleantech markets worldwide, through 3 distinct services: Research, Advisory Services and Events. Today, as a global company with offices in North America, Europe, India, China and Middle East, the Cleantech Group is uniquely positioned to help clients take advantage of the worldwide opportunities represented by clean technology. For more information please visit www.cleantech.com.



Volans

Focusing on the business of social innovation, Volans is part think-tank, part consultancy, part broker and part incubator. Volansworks globally with entrepreneurs, businesses, investors and governments to develop and scale innovative solutions to financial, social and environmental challenges. For more information please visit www.volans.com.



Enterprise UK

Enterprise UK is the national campaign working to give people in the UK the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising. Its vision is of a society where an enterprise culture and entrepreneurial behaviour drive economic prosperity and social cohesion. Enterprise UK boosts entrepreneurial motivation and confidence, nurtures entrepreneurial capability and ambition and stimulates the creation and growth of business. For more information please visit www.enterpriseuk.org.



Oli Barrett

Oli Barrett is an established entrepreneur with a wide social network of fellow entrepreneurs. Oli is based in Central London and is involved in a large number of new ventures and projects. Oli is a keen promoter of entrepreneurship in the UK. Oli Barrett runs Connected Capital, an innovation company and he is the founder of "Make Your Mark with a Tenner". For more information please visit http://www.olibarrett.co.uk/.



People who make the Mission a success

The Clean & Cool Mission has many people helping in different ways, here are a few of the people whose assistance has proved invaluable...

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