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Cleantech Commons™
Cleantech Commons™ serves as Canada's hub for clean technology and sustainable innovation, fostering a collaborative environment for established companies, startups, and service providers in the cleantech sector.
Overview
What Cleantech Commons™ does
What Cleantech Commons™ is
Cleantech Commons™ serves as Canada's hub for clean technology and sustainable innovation, fostering a collaborative environment for established companies, startups, and service providers in the cleantech sector.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 25, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Cleantech Commons™ as a community
Community overview
Cleantech Commons™ is a research and technology park affiliated with Trent University, located in Peterborough, Canada. It was established to create a hub for collaborative research, innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship focused on clean, green, low- and zero-carbon, sustainable, environmental, and circular economy technologies. The organization aims to connect startups, established businesses, students, academic faculty, and researchers to address climate, energy, and environmental challenges.
Community focus
Cleantech Commons focuses on sectors including clean technology, water technologies, contaminant analysis, agro-biotechnology, and biomaterials. It aims to support ventures that develop solutions to reduce greenhouse gases, promote renewable resources, contribute to a low carbon economy, and commercialize clean and green processes and products.
Member value
Members benefit from curated information through the Virtual Concierge Service, access to the New Frontiers Speaker Series, and opportunities to engage in competitions like Rain It In, which challenges students to create innovative solutions for climate-related issues.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students · Researchers
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community and other
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- North America
Community activity
- Annual events
- 1
Events and activity
Recurring events include the Rain It In Competition, an annual event that engages students in developing solutions for climate-related challenges, and the New Frontiers Speaker Series, featuring talks from industry leaders and innovators in the cleantech sector.
Notable members
Notable individuals include Martin Yuill, Executive Director; Darryl Julott, Director of Economic Development, City of Peterborough; and Christopher Rooney, Senior Director Research and Innovation, Trent University.
Common questions
What to know about Cleantech Commons™
Upseed classifies Cleantech Commons™ under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
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Source basis
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Last reviewed
April 25, 2026
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