Services
Lighting Technology Greenhouse (LTG) provides a wealth of services, including:
Lighting networking - Introductions and networking of commercialization players with a common interest in the growth of lighting-related businesses, including large lighting companies interested in acquiring smaller companies, entrepreneurs, inventors, investors, and existing small companies looking to grow their lighting-related businesses within and outside of New York State.
Lighting IP inventory - An impressive inventory of lighting intellectual property developed by Rensselaer, public and private technical and research institutions, recently issued patents, and other promising lighting IP developed by local, unaffiliated entities that have the potential for attracting investment and resulting in commercial success.
Information about New York State businesses - A list of lighting-related New York State or potential New York State businesses and strategic out-of-state businesses, including lighting manufacturers, distributors, companies offering lighting-related services, and companies with capabilities to build components or prototypes for new lighting products.
Assistance in identifying and securing funding opportunities - A list of federal, state, and regional funding opportunities, incentives, incubator space, and other inducements. In addition, LTG provides proposal planning, writing, and editing assistance to identify and secure funding on behalf of New York State lighting-related businesses. This includes team proposals between the LRC and New York State businesses for R&D, demonstration, as well as publicity of the developing technologies and/or services.
Lighting technical services - Technical and market assessment services to help companies benchmark and improve their products, provide due diligence for technical evaluations to potential investors, or document lighting product success stories. These include objective evaluation of lighting product performance claims, research and development in support of developing products or services, development of performance specifications, field demonstrations, and focus groups.