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Environmental Business Cluster Receives Incubation Industry's Highest Honor
June 6, 2008
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jim Robbins, Partner in Business Cluster Development and Executive Director of the Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) of San Jose, California, received the National Business Incubation Association's 2008 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year award this week at NBIA's 22nd International Conference on Business Incubation in San Antonio, Texas. The Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year award is NBIA's most prestigious honor, recognizing overall excellence in business incubation, and is awarded to the nation's top incubator.
Created by Business Cluster Development (BCD) in 1994, the EBC was the first environmental incubator in the United States. The EBC has helped 145 companies commercialize environmental technology and create clean-tech jobs, and has become the largest private, clean energy commercialization center for start-up companies in the United States. A recent United Kingdom study of 110 clean energy commercialization centers around the world over a two year period ranked the Environmental Business Cluster first in the number of technologies successfully commercialized.
BCD creates high-performance, sector-focused business incubation and technology commercialization programs for universities, corporations, and communities based upon a proven model and best practices. With more than 50 incubation projects, BCD is recognized as an industry leader, providing core services which include business incubation planning and development, technology development programs, innovation strategies, cluster-based economic development approaches, and regional and international incubation strategies.
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