Universities are Economic Engines
innovosource note: Indiana and other states are realizing the value of investment into early stage innovation and startups. Many of them are accomplishing this by supporting gap fund/accelerator programs at research institutions. In a previous article, we uncovered over 30 states in the US and countless established and emerging innovation economies across the globe are […]
John Deere selects companies for its 2020 Startup Collaborator program
John Deere is building on the success of its Startup Collaborator program by welcoming four start-ups to its 2020 cohort. Launched in 2019, the program, which is part of the company’s Intelligent Solutions Group, enhances and deepens collaborative relationships with a start-up whose technology could add value for its customers. “The first year of the John Deere […]
Ideas are a lot like a good bourbon — developing them takes time, care and constant refining-University of Louisville
Ideas are a lot like a good bourbon — developing them takes time, care and constant refining. At the University of Louisville, we apply that methodology to the ideas that come out of our research. Rather than keep them in the classroom or lab, we use those ideas as a mash that we ferment, double and age […]
Air Force tech accelerator welcomes third cohort
The Air Force’s Boston-based technology accelerator program announced the companies that will be joining its 2020 cohort Thursday evening. Ten startup companies, working on a very wide range of topic areas from computer vision to learning and training products, will now spend the next three months connecting with the Air Force and working on their respective […]
President awards $415,000 for faculty and staff research and innovation at UNG
A study on author Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved,” a film titled “The Tourist Tax,” a textbook about the euphonium, a pilot project on social networks and transfer students’ decisions, and a college algebra boot camp highlight a few of the wide-ranging projects granted 2020 Presidential Incentive Awards at the University of North Georgia (UNG). “With an increased […]
Purdue U invests $500K in university-affiliated AI startup
West Lafayette, Ind.-based Purdue University’s medical technology investment fund allotted $500,000 to PhysIQ, a healthcare startup founded by a Purdue alumnus, according to a Jan. 29 news release. PhysIQ uses artificial intelligence to analyze real-time physiological data gathered by wearable sensors. Because it not only identifies patients in need of interventions, but can also demonstrate the […]
Notre Dame’s IDEA Center Launches Startups
A business incubator at the University of Notre Dame doubled in 2019 the number of startup businesses it helped launch in the previous two years combined. The IDEA Center says 32 young companies were put in motion last year, bringing the total number of startups to 64 since the IDEA Center began in 2017. “Startup […]
CWRU research team receives $1 million to advance therapies for Huntington’s disease
With the support of a $1 million grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are furthering their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurological disorders, according to a news release. A research team led by Xin […]
New $6M UNH lab space provides space for students, start-ups
Inside one of the new labs at the University of New Hampshire’s Manchester campus on a recent afternoon, assistant professor of biotechnology Kristen Johnson and two students evaluated genes as part of pancreatic cancer research. The process is known as quantitative polymerase chain reaction, or qPCR. “We are looking at various aspects of pancreatic cancer,” […]
Rutgers University Receives $4M as New Hub Under NIH REACH Program to Accelerate Development of Biomedical Technologies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey was selected as one of five new hubs under the National Institutes of Health’s Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) program to speed up the translation of biomedical discoveries into commercially viable diagnostics, devices, therapeutics, and tools to improve patient care, enhance health, and train the next generation […]