The UAE announces legal system for venture capital funds

The move comes as part of the projects of the first batch of government accelerators launched earlier by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to expedite the process of achieving the National Agenda goals. “Approving the controls and obligations governing the venture […]

Two Purdue agricultural startups receive $100,000 from inaugural Ag-celerator fund

Two Purdue agricultural-based startups received investments totaling $100,000 from the Purdue Ag-celerator, a plant sciences innovation fund operated by Purdue Ventures, the capital access arm of the Purdue Foundry, with assistance from the Purdue College of Agriculture, Purdue Research Foundation’s Office of Technology Commercialization and the agricultural industry. Phicrobe LLC, a startup commercializing an innovative […]

University of Akron unveils $500K Spark Fund program to fund student, faculty innovations

The University of Akron Research Foundation is unveiling a new program called the Spark Fund to help develop new innovations and technologies among graduate students and faculty.The program, which aims to foster innovations leading to university start-ups, will pay to prototype and test five to seven innovations in 2017, thanks to matching funding from the Ohio […]

Irish Research Council awarded €30m to researchers in 2016

The Irish Research Council’s full-year figures for 2016 detail funding allocated to researchers across the country. In total, in 2016, the Irish Research Council (IRC) granted €30m in funding to 373 new researchers. Details released in late December showed that the largest sum of funding – €15.5m – was allocated to the Government of Ireland […]