Partnership gives Oregon clean-tech startups access to office space, other resources in Boston area

Oregon entrepreneurs developing energy saving and environmentally friendly products and services have a new East Coast connection.

Oregon BEST, a nonprofit group that supports clean technology startups is teaming up with Boston-area Greentown Labs, the country’s largest clean-tech incubator, to expand opportunities for innovators on both coasts.

Now Oregon entrepreneurs have access to office space, strategic partners, investors and other resources in the Boston market. Likewise, Massachusetts startups can get temporary office space at Oregon BEST offices in Portland’s Pearl District and be hooked up with faculty and lab equipment at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University and Oregon Institute of Technology, Oregon BEST spokesman Gregg Kleiner said.