Role of innovation hubs: from idea to market
IN today’s knowledge economy and globalised world, innovation and competitive advantage are key to ensuring worldwide economic growth. The economy of any country in the world is characterised by technology led competition, in which intellectual capital and technical knowledge constitute the main assets. Possession of these assets has become the hallmark of a country’s technological […]
Xconomy: Venture Investors Bets on Healthcare, and Milwaukee, With $75M Fund
Venture Investors is going all-in on healthcare with its latest venture fund. Launched in 1982, Venture Investors (VI) is the oldest venture firm in Wisconsin, and one of the older VCs in the US. Historically, early-stage life sciences and healthcare startups have made up the majority of its investments, but it has also backed young […]
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 […]
NDSU students seeking investors for venture capital fund Pathway Ventures
FARGO – Three North Dakota State University students are seeking to create a $1 million venture capital fund. The founders of Pathway Ventures made their initial public appeal for investors on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the 1 Million Cups Fargo event at The Stage at Island Park. The student-run venture capital group aims to help […]
FACIT and University of Toronto launch precision medicine company, supported by seed fund
FACIT, a commercialization venture group, together with the University of Toronto (“U of T”), announced the creation of Ontario-based Cellular Analytics (the “Company”). Cellular Analytics is founded upon a proprietary microfluidic platform that enables molecular characterization of cancer at the level of single circulating tumour cells. The technology quantitatively detects sensitivity to immune-oncology agents ‘on-chip’ at both significantly […]
BHF Accelerator Award to boost research at University of Birmingham
The university is one of only six institutions in the UK to be awarded with a BHF Accelerator Award, which encourages pioneering research of the highest calibre. It will bolster the university’s research in atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure, thrombo-inflammation and vascular biology. Advancing research from bench to bedside The award will create a joined-up […]
Inside Ottawa’s newest startup accelerator
An Ottawa biotech startup that’s finding new ways to regrow skin, bones and even spinal tissue has found a new home in La Cité’s accelerator program – the latest addition to the college’s entrepreneurship program. Spiderwort recently moved into La Factorie Desjardins – an area designed for entrepreneurs in the newly constructed Excentricité pavillion. The bioengineering […]
Innovative ideas are supercharged at Texas Tech Red Raider Accelerator
Braxton Manley wanted to create “really cool Apple Watch bands” because his was boring and uncomfortable. Nine-year-old Cooper Williams wanted a way to track the ice cream truck so he could have his money ready when it arrived. Gage Dutkin wanted a way to make sure no more children died after being left in hot […]
OSF Ventures invests $7.3M in healthcare data analytics startup
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare’s venture arm participated in a $7.3 million funding round for Socially Determined, a startup using data analytics to identify patients in need of social services and other resources, OSF Ventures announced Oct. 28. Socially Determined’s analytics and machine learning tools are fed commercial and government data and information from insurers and health systems. […]
UW’s Fisher Innovation Launchpad Announces 10 Finalists
Ten innovative businesses — that range from a company that has created a digital assistant to track workouts and diet, to a virtual reality system to help children learn music instruments — are finalists in a University of Wyoming entrepreneurship competition. The finalists are UW graduate and undergraduate students, alumni and faculty who will compete […]