U of M, in partnership with DEED, invests $2.5M in venture capital funds | University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota today announced investments totaling $2.5 million across multiple Minnesota venture capital funds that will ultimately benefit start-up companies in the state. This is the first in a series of significant investments stemming from a partnership announced last November with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) to inject $34.5 million into […]
Initiative jointly funds two Innovation Gap Fund projects with CoMotion
The University of Washington Population Health Initiative continued its annual partnership with CoMotion to jointly fund two Innovation Gap Funds of $50,000 each. This $100,000 in funding will support projects that simultaneously support the UW’s vision for improving population health while also fulfilling the CoMotion Innovation Fund’s goal of enabling research that will achieve sustainable […]
£11 million funding to accelerate innovation in medicines manufacturing
The University of Strathclyde’s world-leading Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC) medicines manufacturing research centre, has received a new £11 million award from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) to deliver the CMAC Data Lab: A Digital Medicine Manufacturing Research Accelerator. This significant capital investment is CMAC’s third award from UKRPIF continuing its strategic […]
New Faculty Fellows program to grow UH innovation and entrepreneurship
The University of Hawaiʻi has launched Faculty Fellows, a new experiential certificate training program available to UH System faculty interested in growing the university’s innovation and entrepreneurship capacity. Six faculty from the College of Engineering at UH Mānoa have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort: Oceana Puananilei Francis, professor of civil and environmental […]