Wednesday, March 17, 2010

• Boston World Partnerships pumped 200 new jobs into city
Boston World Partnerships celebrated its one year anniversary last night at the Liberty Hotel, releasing data showing that it is responsible for creating 200 new jobs in Boston and retaining 115 jobs, resulting in an economic impact of $38 million in statewide spending.


Tuesday, March 2, 2010

• OpenCape gets $32M for Cape broadband network
OpenCape Corp. has been told by the U.S. Department of Commerce that it has won $32 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for a program that includes a 350-mile fiber-optic network, a wireless microwave network and regional data center.


Thursday, February 18, 2010

• Mass. clean energy projects garner $13M in funds
Governor Deval Patrick announced on Wednesday the award of more than $13 million to 111 cities and towns in Massachusetts for the purpose of adding energy efficiency projects.


Monday, February 15, 2010

• Mass. health IT attracts $26M in federal funds
Massachusetts has pulled in $25.6 million in federal funding for work in health information technology — $15 million to support electronic health records implementation and $10.6 million for a secure health information network to be built in Massachusetts.


Friday, February 12, 2010

• Mass. IT firms rebound with plans to hire
At least five of Massachusetts’ largest tech employers, from EMC Corp. to Akamai Technologies Inc., plan to boost local head count in 2010, and combined they will likely add 500 or more jobs in product management, engineering, sales and marketing, and other corporate function.


Friday, January 29, 2010

• Mass. energy stimulus funds slow to convert to cash
The flood of stimulus dollars earmarked for energy projects in Massachusetts is more like a trickle, yet the state is faring better than many of its neighbors in turning earmarks into real cash.


Wednesday, January 27, 2010

• Feds turn down $100M grant for Western Mass. broadband
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute reports that its application for more than $100 million in federal stimulus funds to speed up broadband infrastructure deployment in Western Massachusetts has been rejected in the latest round of grants.


Monday, January 25, 2010

• Hexcel licenses tech, lands clean energy tax credit
Hexcel Corp., a Stamford, Conn.-based advanced composites firm, has announced its licensing of prepreg technology from Swiss firm Gurit Services AG, in addition to its receipt of a New Clean Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit of up to $8.1 million.


Thursday, January 21, 2010

• Mass. to invest $6M in ARRA funds to green jobs
Governor Deval Patrick announced today he plans to move $6 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to green jobs training and support. The funding will be used to train about 1,400 people in the cleantech and renewable energy fields.


Monday, January 18, 2010

• eClinicalWorks lands business with SPI network
Westborough-based eClinicalWorks LLC has been chosen by Summa Physicians Inc. (SPI) to provide electronic medical records for the company’s 223 doctors in 33 specialty fields.


Thursday, January 14, 2010

• Conn. broadband lands $1.8M in stimulus funds
Connecticut has pulled in $1.8 million in federal stimulus funding to apply to broadband mapping and data collection, according to an announcement by Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

• WHOI takes in $8M to build new sensor-focused lab
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reports it has landed $8.1 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce to build an R&D laboratory focusing on ocean-oriented sensors.


Wednesday, January 13, 2010

• New England firms win share of $2.3B in cleantech tax credits
A dozen New England companies were among the firms selected to receive a total of $2.3 billion in tax credits for 183 project announced by the Obama administration recently.


Friday, January 8, 2010

• UMaine nets $12M for offshore wind tech
The University of Maine has been awarded $12.4 million in federal stimulus funds to build and test offshore wind materials and technologies. The school’s AEWC Advanced Structure and Composites Center will be the location of initial tests of materials before deep water demonstrations.


Thursday, December 31, 2009

• Out after '09, In with '10
Mass High Tech staff members offered up their thoughts on which trends and technologies can fade away, or at least step back from the podium, with the passing of 2009, and what to watch for in the new year.


Thursday, December 24, 2009

• Atlantic Tele-Network unit gets $39M for NY broadband
ION Holdco LLC, a New York-based unit of Salem’s Atlantic Tele-Network Inc., has won a $39.7 million federal stimulus grant to run fiber-optic broadband cable to communities in rural upstate New York.


Friday, December 18, 2009

• NVCA Survey: Almost 40% of VCs predict worse times in 2010
While rebound talk is current, survey results released this week by the National Venture Capital Association report nearly four in 10 venture capital investors believe 2010 will be worse than 2009.


Thursday, December 17, 2009

• New England projects share in federal broadband funds
The city of Boston and two companies in Maine and New Hampshire have won more than $28 million in stimulus funding to expand broadband Internet access, as Vice President Joe Biden announced $182 million in funding for broadband projects in 17 states.


Friday, December 11, 2009

• Semiconductor firms slow to embrace recovery
After one of the deepest downturns in chip production in recent memory, area semiconductor firms began to see orders for products and equipment pick up in the third quarter. But firms are reluctant to say the bad times are over for the beleaguered industry.


Monday, December 7, 2009

• Study: Software leads tech growth in Mass.
Technology company CEOs, industry group to officials and academia gathered at Communispace Corp. in Watertown this morning to listen to the findings from a UMass study on Massachusetts’ tech economy and to hear Gov. Deval Patrick’s keynote address on the state of the IT sector in the commonwealth.


Thursday, December 3, 2009

• Massachusetts to send six tech pioneer firms to World Economic Forum
Six New England companies — all based in Massachusetts and hailing from the life sciences, cleantech, energy and software industries — will head to Davos, Switzerland, in January as members of the list of 26 technology pioneers announced by the World Economic Forum today in advance of its 2010 annual meeting.


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

• Beacon Power lands $24M for flywheel construction
Beacon Power Corp. has received a $24 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to construct a flywheel energy storage plant in Chicago.


Wednesday, November 18, 2009

• Maine energy efficiency projects net $9.6M DOE grants
The state of Maine will receive $9.6 million in U.S. Department of Energy grant funding to make public buildings and vehicles more energy efficient, the DOE disclosed late Tuesday.


Monday, November 9, 2009

• Stimulus funds aid UNH floating wind turbine
The University of New Hampshire reports its Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE) has landed $700,000 in federal stimulus funds to test a prototype floating wind turbine.


Friday, November 6, 2009

• Mass. claims $2M for statewide broadband service
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has awarded about $2 million in stimulus funding to Massachusetts for the purpose of developing initial steps for setting up broadband Internet service throughout the commonwealth, including Cape Cod and western Massachusetts.


Monday, October 26, 2009

• Seven New England companies split $36M in DOE research grants
New England was a big winner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s first release of stimulus-funded energy research grants, as some seven companies received a slice of the $151 million ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy) grant awards. In all, six Massachusetts companies and one Connecticut firm will receive a total of $35.5 million to fund their research efforts in alternative energy.


Friday, October 16, 2009

• Maine pulls in $8M for floating offshore wind farm
The University of Maine has received $8 million in federal stimulus funding to move forward on its 10-year plan to create the country’s first floating deepwater offshore wind farm.


Thursday, October 15, 2009

• Gov. Patrick: Three Mass. proposals for broadband stimulus funds
Governor Deval Patrick has submitted a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requesting federal stimulus funding for three Massachusetts broadband projects to serve western Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the City of Boston.

• Conn. puts $4M in stimulus funds to solar water heating
Connecticut Gov. Jodi M. Rell has set aside $4 million in federal stimulus funds to aid residential and commercial installation of solar-powered water-heating systems within the state. Dubbed the Solar Thermal Incentive Program, the funds cover costs for about 600 residential and 120 nonresidential solar-powered water-heating systems.


Wednesday, October 14, 2009

• Boston’s solar evacuation route attracts $1.3M grant
The City of Boston has won a $1.3 million Solar America Cities grant, from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to use in creating a solar evacuation route, Mayor Tom Menino announced on Tuesday.


Friday, October 9, 2009

• How I See It: Bialecki: Mass. making progress on economic plan
There are early signs that Massachusetts is beginning to emerge from this harsh economic downturn and that we are poised to do so faster and stronger than much of the rest of the country. To keep making progress, there are some old habits that we must begin to break.


Thursday, October 8, 2009

• Helicos BioSciences wins $2.9M grant
Helicos BioSciences Corp. has won a two-year, $2.9 million grant from the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute and its “$1,000 Genome Sequencing Technology Development” program.


Tuesday, October 6, 2009

• Stimulus funds buoy UMass Lowell toxics institute
The University of Massachusetts Lowell says it will be able to keep its Toxics Use Reduction Institute running through the end of the current fiscal year, thanks to a $1.3 million infusion it received from federal stimulus funds.


Monday, September 21, 2009

• Mass. DOER seeks energy efficient building proposals
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources is seeking project proposals that would make state buildings more energy efficient. The proposals would be eligible to receive some $15 million in stimulus dollars for such projects under the Massachusetts High Performance Buildings Grant Program.

• Reveal Imaging lands $30M order, courtesy of ARRA stimulus funding
Bedford-based airport security equipment maker Reveal Imaging Technologies Inc. has pulled in a $30 million deal to provide its CT-80 DR explosives detection systems to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, as part of the national stimulus funding package.


Thursday, September 17, 2009

• UMass scores $47M in stimulus funds, $73M in licensing income
The University of Massachusetts has brought in $47 million in grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and its licensing income from the school’s intellectual property shot to $73 million for Fiscal 2009, an all-time high for the five-school system.


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

• First Wind wins $40M in fed funds for Maine wind farm
The U.S. Treasury Department announced yesterday that First Wind Holdings Inc. of Newton has been handed $40.4 million in federal recovery funds for its planned second wind power turbine farm at Stetson Ridge in Maine.


Monday, August 24, 2009

• Maine gets $11.4M for wood heat conversion
The state of Maine will be using one of its most abundant resources — wood — to heat up to 15 public buildings throughout the Pine Tree State under an $11.4 million funding award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to state officials.


Thursday, August 20, 2009

• OpenCape proposes $40M Cape Cod broadband network
OpenCape Corp., a nonprofit organization based in West Barnstable, announced that it is seeking federal stimulus funding to bring wireless broadband to Cape Cod, the Islands and southeastern Massachusetts.

• Boston seeks $15M in stimulus funds for city broadband
The City of Boston has submitted a trio of proposals to try to bring in $15 million in stimulus funding to support a new Boston Broadband Network. According to city officials, Boston will match the proposals with $4.2 million in existing city resources to support the three new initiatives.


Friday, August 14, 2009

• Fed funds sought for broadband in Western Mass.
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute is proposing a plan to federal officials to bring broadband infrastructure to over 40 Western Massachusetts communities where high-speed Internet is unavailable or has low adoption rates.


Monday, August 10, 2009

• Northeast Utilities seeks stimulus funds for smart grid
Northeast Utilities, a Berlin, Conn.-based energy delivery firm, hopes to grab a piece of the $2.4 billion in grants awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support half of the implementation of a smart grid in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts.


Wednesday, August 5, 2009

• DOE grant loss jeopardizes Auburn battery manufacturing site
Four New England technology companies received funds from the U.S. Department of Energy this week, but one company that didn’t, Boston-Power Inc., is now looking at scaling back its plans for growth in Massachusetts.

• A123 to receive $249M for battery manufacturing
A123Systems Inc., the Watertown maker of lithium ion batteries, will receive $249.1 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding to construct a manufacturing plant to build and package batteries for electric vehicles. The company, as well as three other New England companies, were among the recipients of the $2.4 billion in grants awarded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.


Tuesday, August 4, 2009

• Plankton Power, RTDC plan algae-to-biofuels plant on Cape
Biofuels company Plankton Power has teamed up with the Regional Technology Development Corp. (RTDC) of Cape Cod in a public-private consortium to build a production facility, to be called the Cape Cod Algae Biorefinery, to produce renewable biofuels from algae.


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

• MBI doles out $4.3M for I-91 fiber
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute has made the first investment out of the $40 million bond bill that established the group, funding $4.3 million to lay fiber in Western Massachusetts.


Friday, July 24, 2009

• OpenCape taps RCN for fiber network on Cape Cod
OpenCape Corp., a nonprofit focused on bringing wireless broadband to Cape Cod and the Islands, reports it has picked RCN Metro Optical Networks, a division of RCN Corp. (Nasdaq: RCNI) to build and operate a 300-mile fiber network across Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands.


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

• AMSC nets $12M for superconductor smart grid projects
American Superconductor Corp. said Tuesday it has received $12 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding for work on smart grid demonstration projects. The grants call for the Devens-based energy technology company to develop a 138 kilovolt fault current limiter using the company’s superconductor wires.


Monday, July 20, 2009

• Maine directs $1.25M of federal funds to alternative energy
Two alternative energy projects in Maine are expected to receive a total of $1.25 million from the federal Energy and Water Appropriations bill. The University of Maine, and its partners, will take on $1 million to finance tidal power projects and $250,000 to support composite wind blade manufacturing technology.


Wednesday, July 15, 2009

• Mass. passes bill to ease broadband rollout
The Massachusetts House and Senate passed a bill Tuesday that made changes to the way state agencies interact, giving the state a better shot at getting more federal stimulus funds for expanding broadband coverage.


Tuesday, July 14, 2009

• Chelsea Collaborative nets $1.9M for clean diesel
Chelsea Collaborative has received $1.9 million in stimulus funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for two clean diesel emissions projects. The funds will support the New England Produce Market’s repowering of 79 diesel-fired refrigeration units with all-electric units.


Thursday, July 2, 2009

• Conn. reopens solar rebate program with new funds
The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund is once again accepting applications to its solar rebate program thanks to $3.1 million in fresh funding. The rebate program, which provides rebates of up to 40 percent for installation of small solar photovoltaic systems, had been closed since November because all previous funding had been allocated.


Thursday, June 25, 2009

• Conn. to receive $15.4M in alternative energy stimulus
Connecticut will receive $15.4 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand its energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The funding from the U.S. Department of Energy is about half of the state’s $38 million in stimulus funds for its State Energy Plan submitted to the federal government last month.


Wednesday, June 17, 2009

• More Conn. job losses expected before recovery
Two recent releases from the Connecticut Business and Industry Association indicate that the state should expect to continue losing jobs through the end of 2009 before the economy recovers.


Monday, June 15, 2009

• GE launches stimulus for e-health record adoption
GE Healthcare and GE Capital have jointly launched the Stimulus Simplicity program to help doctors and medical centers adopt electronic medical records (EMRs) more quickly. The program entails interest-free loans and certification for EMRs.


Monday, June 8, 2009

• Conn. aims for $19M in stimulus funds for ‘green’ buses
The State of Connecticut has filed applications for $18.9 million worth of federal stimulus dollars aimed at upgrading state-owned transit buses, said state officials. If the application is approved it would provide the state with “dozens” of hybrid buses and install fuel cells as backup power sources in maintenance garages around the state.


Monday, June 1, 2009

• Forsyth researchers collect stimulus grants
Three scientists at Boston’s Forsyth Institute have been awarded a total of $1.88 million in federal research funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus bill. The NIH made the grants through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research with a goal of maintaining laboratory positions and creating jobs.

• Boston-Power building battery-making site in Auburn
Westborough-based advanced lithium ion battery maker Boston-Power Inc. announced this morning that it plans to build a 455,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Auburn, at the site of a former Filene’s Basement warehouse.


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

• Second Wind to help study harbor island wind potential
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced today a feasibility study of the environmental conditions of Boston Harbor that could be the first step in bringing wind turbines to the harbor islands. The study will take place on Moon Island and utilize donated equipment from Somerville-based Second Wind Inc.


Friday, May 22, 2009

• Senate fights off anti biotech funding bill
An attempt to repeal the state’s $1 billion Life Sciences Act was defeated by the Massachusetts State Senate this week. The Life Sciences Act of 2008 provides roughly a billion dollars over 10 years in loans, grants, tax incentives and other stimulus funding mechanisms to the state’s biotechnology industry.


Thursday, May 21, 2009

• Bay State puts nearly $1M into green jobs training
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center reports it is offering almost $1 million in work force development grants for the clean energy sector.


Tuesday, May 19, 2009

• Mass. officials make available renewable energy bonds
The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and the Governor’s office yesterday announced the availability of federally sponsored Clean Renewable Energy Bonds aimed at helping municipalities, state agencies and other public entities finance solar, wind and other renewable power projects.

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