University of Buffalo awarded $10 million grant to drive industry partnerships and innovation 

The University at Buffalo received a 10-year, $10 million Center for Advanced Technology (UB CAT) in Big Data and Health Sciences designation from Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (NYSTAR). The state granted only one such designation. UB CAT, part of UB’s Office of Business and Entrepreneur Partnerships, provides support to enable […]

UAB launches new commercial accelerator 

The University of Alabama at Birmingham kicked off Innovation Week with a major announcement on Monday: the launch of a new commercialization accelerator program. The new program is designed to help students and faculty research ideas and concepts and build them into fully fledged companies. Enlarge UAB has launched a new commercialization accelerator program. BOB […]

Birmingham AI start-up secures £200,000 Centrica backing

Birmingham-based Grid Edge is the brainchild of three researcher friends, Tom Anderson, Dr Jim Scott and Dr Dan Wright, who met while working together at Aston University’s European Bioenergy Research Institute in 2012. Following three years of product development, the trio has created cloud-based energy management software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to forecast the […]