Glasgow uni innovation cluster development fund ‘oversubscribed’
The Innovation Cluster Development Fund was launched in the New Year to feed a pipeline of new and innovative ventures coming out of the campus that have potential to grow and establish themselves as new businesses. Interest was so strong in the new funding stream that the initiative was many times oversubscribed and is indicative of the high volume […]
U Tennessee Chancellor’s Innovation Fund
The Chancellor’s Innovation Fund, launched in 2023, offers seed funding to support faculty and their research teams in developing and commercializing new technologies. Each year, five winners are carefully selected to receive a one-time award of $50,000 to invest towards the refinement and prototyping of their lab-based technologies. The fund prioritizes innovation that addresses real-world […]
Syracuse Orange Innovation Fund Spring 2025 Grant Applications Open
Syracuse University Libraries is accepting spring applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the Orange Innovation Fund grant now through Friday, March 28, 2025, at 5 p.m. Interested applicants can access the application template online or e-mail OrangeInnovation@syr.edu to request an application package. Grants up to $5,000 per award will be made, with a total of up to $50,000 per academic […]
ASU-led Southwest Sustainability Innovation Engine funds 8 promising tech startups
In the startup world, tech companies often fall victim to what’s known as the “valley of death” — the gap between technological proof of concept and actual viable product. Aiming to bridge this perilous gap, an Arizona State University-led, multi-institutional enterprise is funding eight promising companies with technologies that stand to spur economic growth in […]
Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Fuel Translational Research | Harvard Medical School
Open to all faculty at the rank of assistant, associate, and full professor at HMS, its affiliated institutions, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the awards provide critical funding to researchers who’ve made fundamental discoveries with the potential for becoming powerful clinical interventions. “We’re living in a prolific time of scientific discovery, and it […]
Video: Research universities enable innovation by doing much of the behind-the-scenes work
Two university presidents hosted a conversation at the Ion Feb. 24 to discuss how American research universities serve the public. Rice University President Reginald DesRoches and Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University (ASU), shared how research universities are engines of innovation, economic growth and social mobility while educating millions and driving scientific and technological discovery to help […]
Discovery to Impact Makes $150,000 Investment in Locus Lock Through U Texas Austin Seed Fund
AUSTIN, Texas — With its mission of bringing research discoveries to the marketplace, Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $150,000 through the UT Seed Fund in Locus Lock, a UT-affiliated startup developing cutting-edge positioning solutions for mobility in the commercial and defense sectors. The investment will help Locus Lock […]
Cambridge Enterprise drives 41 University investments in a year
2024 marked a milestone with 41 approved Cambridge Enterprise Ventures investments, representing a substantial breakthrough. The Technology Investment Fund committed over £2m investment across 20 projects covering the breadth of disciplines in the University during its first nine months, de-risking and adding value to technologies and supporting the accelerated translation of university research in preparation […]
UK industrial strategy must utilise university strengths, say experts – Research Professional News
Universities should be at the heart of the government’s forthcoming industrial strategy, the Russell Group and business leaders have urged, as they called on ministers to put more money into the Higher Education Innovation Fund. In a new report, a Russell Group panel of industrial strategy experts say that scaling up the HEIF—which aims to […]