From the Lab to the Marketplace: Michigan Tech Researchers Find Help at Home to Commercialize Their Discoveries
Startupcompanies involving two Michigan Technological University faculty members have recently signed commercial licensing agreements, which represent important commercialization milestones.Both companies worked extensively with services and programs provided by the Technology Commercialization Team in MichiganTech’sOffice of Innovation and Industry Engagement. The team helps researchers move from technical discovery to product launch.Those services and programs included the […]
Can An Investment Fund Make Minnesota A Medtech Mecca?
If Minnesota really wants to realize its long-held dream of becoming a national hub for medtech and biotech research and to benefit from the high-paying jobs that could spawn, it needs a well-funded, long-range commitment from the state — and what better time to do that than with a $900 million budget surplus in hand? […]
Innovators & Entrepreneurs: Seed fund plants success in Oklahoma
Black Mesa in the Panhandle is the highest and driest place in Oklahoma. Black Mesa used to be considered a no-man’s land. Paleontologists went there to look for dinosaur bones. It’s the harshest, coldest place in the state. And yet, the flora and fauna reported in the Black Mesa are unique — some of these […]
Startups working with venture capital firms perform the best
It’s a familiar idea that venture capitalists, or VCs, are the “money of invention” and fund firms with high growth potential, helping bring their products to market. However, entrepreneurs have many options when considering funding. There are corporate venture capitalists (CVC), which typically work within a larger corporate structure and seek to acquire innovative startups […]
Boston University Launches Campus-Wide Crowdfunding Platform – Crowdfund Insider
On Tuesday, Boston University announced it has recently launched its very owncrowdfunding platform for campus-based projects. According to BU Today, the university has developed the portal to help academic departments, student groups, and other members of the BU community raise funds for research, service trips, projects, events, and other BU-specific ventures. Kaitlyn Busconi, coach and former member of […]
Ghana’s start-up hub pioneer is going pan-African with a $50 million fund — Quartz
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has built one of Africa’s best known start-up ecosystems in Accra, Ghana over the last eight years—and now it’s doubling down on a push to take its vision pan-African. As MEST has grown, it has opened up its local entrepreneur training program to founders from Nigeria and Kenya who […]
Peoria’s OSF hospitals launch $75 million VC fund
A hospital run by a small group of nuns in Peoria probably isn’t the first place you’d look for the cutting edge. But OSF Healthcare, which runs 11 hospitals across the state, is one of a few dozen hospitals nationwide directly investing in startups. Some of the more well-known hospitals with venture funds include […]
University of Energy launches US$10m Endowment Fund | Business News 2016-04-13
The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani has launched a US$10million endowment fund to cushion the young University into a higher pedestal in the next ten years. The endowment fund is expected to serve as supplementary to government’s subvention to the University so as to make it financially sufficient to deliver on […]
Arrowhead innovation fund preps to distribute
A lot more seed and early-stage capital could begin flowing into fledgling startups at New Mexico State University this summer thanks to a new innovation fund being set up by NMSU’s Arrowhead Center Inc. Arrowhead, which manages all of the university’s technology transfer and commercialization programs, announced its intent last year to establish a $2 […]
Off to great start-ups: Rowan gives $200K
Rowan University senior Nicholas Dennis and graduate Melissa Schipke have different ideas for increasing community engagement, but they share the same dream of building early-stage startups. With help from the Rowan University Innovation Venture Fund, the two will be able to do just that. The fund — dedicated to helping young entrepreneurs build fledgling businesses into viable operations that […]