LSU, BRAC, NexusLA Present New Startup Accelerator
BATON ROUGE – LSU, BRAC and NexusLA are partnering to create Startup City Launch, a new, 10-week training program to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into scalable businesses. The program builds upon The Idea Village’s proven IDEAinstitute program that has served over 300 founders in the last four years and is an expansion of the […]
Poets&Quants – Carlson School At The Center Of Entrepreneurship
Steven Kutz made the most of his MBA experience to help launch his business, Common Good Investments LLC. His goal with the venture is to create a non-profit, public, and private partnership to produce built-to-suit housing for the homeless and other vulnerable populations. At the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, Kutz took classes […]
Cisco sponsors AI and quantum centre at Edinburgh University | Capacity Media
The University of Edinburgh says the launch of the Quantum and AI Centre of Excellence follows several years of close collaboration. Professor Jane Hillston FRS (pictured), head of the School of Informatics, said: “Over the last five years we have developed an extremely successful partnership, with potential benefits across a wide range of applications. Software […]
Will Japan’s new ¥10-trillion MEXT university fund lift research performance?
Large endowment funds underpin the stability and independence of some of the world’s most successful research institutions. Take Harvard University, the leading academic institution globally by Share in the Nature Index. Harvard has one of the world’s largest endowments for an academic institution at more than $50 billion, a sum that allowed the fund to […]
Samsung kicks off Israeli tech startup program for its mobile devices products
Korean tech giant Samsung is seeking to integrate innovative technologies developed by Israeli startups and tech companies into its mobile devices products and software. As part of a tech program, Samsung will be funding selected Israeli startups with a $50,000 grant each and providing them with technical support from the tech giant’s R&D units over […]
NSF’s Convergence Accelerator Releases Upcoming Topics for the Program’s 2023 Solicitation | NSF – National Science Foundation
NSF’s Convergence Accelerator has published a Dear Colleague Letter, DCL (NSF 23-066) to make the research and innovation community aware of the convergent research topics selected for the program’s upcoming 2023 solicitation. The program, within the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships or TIP, supports use-inspired solutions toward societal impact. The 2023 solicitation is expected to be published in the […]
Why Imperial College Launched A Climatetech Pre-Accelerator
Universities are a hotbed for young talent, ideas and potential; they’re also an often untapped resource for entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions. Imperial College climate tech Pre-accelerator co-founders Filippo Varini and Elliot Queisser de Stockalper have set out to change this with the launch of a first-of-its-kind pre-accelerator for climate tech. The pre-accelerator aims to help […]