Check out the SickKids Innovation Showcase

The SickKids Innovation Showcase is an annual event that celebrates the most advanced health and life sciences ideasfrom the innovators at The Hospital for Sick Children and our Research Institute. It will provide unparalleled access to eight emerging biopharma and medtech innovations with high potential for market disruption and impact. The event will consist of […]

Tulane Innovation Institute to transform university’s tech and entrepreneurial enterprises — and the regional economy | Tulane News

The Tulane Innovation Institute will launch operations from its downtown headquarters later this year, thanks to several generous lead gifts from forward-thinking philanthropists. Like the nascent technologies and startups it seeks to invigorate, the multi-million-dollar, long-term project to transform the university’s entrepreneurial capabilities is attracting interest from expert investors who recognize its powerful potential. The institute’s top […]

UNC-Chapel Hill innovation hub gets green light, speeds economic development downtown

By this time next year, Chapel Hill will have an innovation hub that will attract folks looking for UNC-Chapel Hill’s innovative research and entrepreneurial activity, as well as links to community partners and firms coming to town. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took a big step toward launching a full-fledged innovation hub […]

Rice University competition doles out nearly $2M in cash prizes to student startups 

Rice University’s worldwide student startup competition returned in a big manner to its in-person format, awarding over $2 million in funding and in-kind rewards to more than a dozen winning teams. The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition took held on campus from April 7-9, culminating in a luncheon and awards presentation on Saturday at the […]

Five teams advance to final round of Duquesne University’s New Venture Challenge

Five teams have progressed to the final stage of Duquesne University’s New Venture Challenge competition, a competition sponsored by Duquesne’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business that awards cash and service prizes totaling more than $100,000 to budding entrepreneurs from all around the world. The 17 teams who advanced to the semi-finalist round were notified by the […]

Students get lesson in entrepreneurship during spring accelerator cohort | RIT

With a rising percentage of entering students already having launched their own enterprises, RIT helps distinguish itself apart from many other colleges by enhancing the talents of the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at RIT, which was established to help students invent and solve problems through experiential […]

New initiative Yale Ventures to promote innovation and entrepreneurship

Yale Ventures, a new endeavor to help teachers and students turn their ideas into medical, technology, scientific, and engineering enterprises, as well as foster innovation and entrepreneurship in New Haven, was unveiled on Tuesday morning. Josh Geballe, a newly appointed Senior Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, will lead Yale Ventures. The program intends to […]