market intelligence
Early insight. Faster innovation. Stuff you didn’t know existed.
A new platform for mapping and capturing cleantech and critical materials.
Our market intelligence Platforms
The Problem
Most corporate innovation programs focus their attention, analysis, and capital on three places: Silicon Valley, Boston, and NYC. With innovation flourishing in SEP’s Colorado backyard, we know something is missing from the picture. What about the rest of the United States?
As investors, this gap tells us that we are overlooking crucial cleantech opportunities. As innovators and entrepreneurs, we know this is a problem we can solve.
Our Solution
We’ve created services synthesizing SEP’s unique tools and systems (Innovation Hubs, Cleantech Sectors, and Green Metrics) and access to information from top business intelligence platforms and primary research (which comprises our Datalab). We created these services based on the deep industry knowledge, critical analysis, and investment-centric lens of the SEP team.
Our research platform helps you enhance your innovation program, make informed cleantech investments, and develop new cleantech products. We know it works because we use it.
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Innovation Reporting
Early insight. A new way of identifying and analyzing cleantech in innovation hubs.
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Practice Areas
Get ahead of the curve. Unparalleled insight into high-impact clean technologies.
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Tailored Engagement Analysis
Innovate faster. Individualized reports and projects with hands-on support.
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Innovation Hubs
The core of our unique approach. Where cleantech is thriving, but venture capital hasn’t caught up.
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Cleantech Sectors
The organizing principle of our world. A taxonomy of nine sectors captures all investable cleantech.
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Green Metrics
The ultimate purpose of what we do. Decarbonization, sustainability, and a healthy planet.
Tools
Innovation Hubs
Cleantech Innovation Hubs Survey
To halt the environmental crisis and achieve Solve Climate+ by 2050, we must leverage the full potential of cleantech ecosystems across the US. SEP’s Cleantech Innovation Hubs Survey—first launched in 2021 and updated with new findings in 2024—evaluates and ranks the top 100 hubs based on the strength of their cleantech ecosystems. Each hub is assessed using curated datasets spanning research funding, technology development, venture activity, and other key metrics.
The Executive Summary of the newly released 2024 Survey is now available. Full white papers for both the 2024 and 2021 Surveys—including expanded analysis, detailed datasets, methodology, and hub-specific insights—are available for purchase or free download.
Deep Mapping of Emerging Hubs
SEP has conducted two initiatives mapping US Innovation Hubs —further supporting our original hypothesis developed prior to the 2021 survey:
Significantly more information exists about cleantech innovators, companies, and stakeholders than is publicly known or available from third-party sources.
The relationships among these entities, people, and opportunities reveal valuable patterns.
Both surveys uncovered a treasure trove of previously unknown insights and connections. Conducted three years apart, the two Cleantech Innovation Hubs Surveys provide a strong foundation for SEP’s continued deep mapping of top-ranked emerging hubs. Together, the deep maps and Surveys form a data-driven backbone of our Innovation Reports, found on our Marketplace.
