SMU Announces All-New Business Accelerator to Support Next-Gen Entrepreneurs | Dallas Innovates
A six-month program will provide SMU student and recent alumni entrepreneurs the growth opportunity of an existing start-up. Described as an “intense and enriching” accelerator, the program offers immersive workshops, mentorship, and access to entrepreneurial and investor networks. Students will have two opportunities to compete for non-dilutive funding. The BAP program features two competitions: a […]
Purdue Polytechnic Institute’s first Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellow to assist entrepreneurial faculty, students
Nathalie Duval-Couetil, professor in Purdue Polytechnic Institute‘s Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation, has been named the institute’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellow. As a fellow, Duval-Couetil will serve as a resource to Polytechnic Institute faculty and students interested in pursuing technology commercialization and entrepreneurial activity. She will also help develop commercial-oriented collaborations with the other academic […]
CIT GAP Funds Invests in ArchiveCore to Simplify Healthcare
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) today announced that CIT GAP Funds, the direct investment program of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA) Investment Division, has invested in Roanoke, Va.-based ArchiveCore. ArchiveCore’s cloud-based distributed ledger technology reduces administrative delays and costs in the process of credentialing healthcare professionals. The startup will use this GAP Funds investment […]
Rowan Innovations: Moving great ideas from the lab to the marketplace
Rowan University researchers are developing promising ideas and new technology in their labs—the trick is getting their new inventions out into the marketplace. The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program accelerates the commercialization process. Since 2018, Rowan researchers have earned 10 national I-Corps awards, plus another through the National Institutes of Health—more than any other R2 […]
Purdue fund expands scope to accept applications from startups in all agricultural disciplines
Entrepreneurs whose startups commercialize Purdue technology in any agricultural field are now eligible to apply for a Purdue fund’s semiannual competition. The $2 million Ag-Celerator Fund was created in 2015 by the College of Agriculture and the Purdue Research Foundation. It originally supported the commercialization of technologies to benefit only the plant sciences sector. The fund is […]
U Michigan Zell Founders Fund Announces $100,000 Investment in Just Enough Wines
The Zell Founders Fund, in collaboration with the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business, announced today that it has contributed $100,000 to a recent funding round for Just Enough Wines, a premium quality canned wine company founded by University of Michigan alumna Kaitlyn Lo (MBA ’21) with her […]
Driving Academic Innovation | Higher Ed Gamma
Higher education is beset by wicked problems, problems that are exceedingly difficult to solve because any proposed solution is divisive, expensive, difficult to implement and conflicts with other institutional values and priorities. Controlling costs is a wicked problem that institutions have attempted to address in ways that quite rightly provoke resistance: outsourcing services, increasing class […]
Michigan MEDC Strategic Fund Approves $6.5M for High-tech Startups
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) in Lansing announced the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) has approved a grant amendment for $6.5 million for the Michigan State University Foundation to support high-tech startup companies and innovative technologies in Michigan at the university level through the Pre-Seed III fund. The Pre-Seed Fund was created to provide early-stage […]
National Security Academic Accelerator pilot program advances ASU faculty and student ideas, technologies
The recently launched National Security Academic Accelerator (NSA2) pilot program at Arizona State University created a unique opportunity for ASU faculty, researchers and students. A partnership with the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), NSA2 was created as a means for working with top research institutions to support and advance development of dual-use ventures capable of serving both commercial and […]
The University Of Utah: Accelerating Therapeutic Discoveries
Many medical researchers have one goal in mind: to come up with new drugs or therapies that will help people live longer, healthier lives. The possibility of finding a drug, a therapy or another treatment that could really make a difference is what drives these University of Utah researchers to get up every morning. The […]