Author: innovosource

Biden-Harris Administration Launches Historic $20 Billion in Grant Competitions to Create National Clean Financing Network as Part of Investing in America Agenda | US EPA

WASHINGTON (July 14, 2023) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched two Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) for $20 billion across two grant competitions under the historic $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, an Inflation Reduction Act program central to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda and environmental justice goals. Together, these competitive grant […]

NSF program partnership enables OSU researchers to market their technology | Oklahoma State University

Research at Oklahoma State University might begin as papers and lab reports, but it is often turned into real world, impactful technologies.   However, researchers cannot do that alone. That is where OSU’s Cowboy Technologies and the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corp (I-Corps) program come in.   “Cowboy Technologies, OSU’s technology commercialization arm, works with 30 developing technologies […]

In first decade, Dean for Research Innovation Funds spur discoveries, collaborations and research investments

A decade ago, Princeton established a pioneering program to catalyze bold new directions in research and scholarship. A set of funding opportunities, supported by the University and led by Princeton’s incoming dean for research, Pablo G. Debenedetti, would enable exploratory projects with the potential to expand frontiers and benefit humanity. A new report on the first 10 years […]

Why Investors With an Entrepreneurial Past are Vital to Startup Success | Entrepreneur

In this article, I would like to focus on one significant trait that some investors possess — an entrepreneurial background that enables them to establish strong connections with startups and better understand the ‘pains’ and challenges new founders face. Based on my personal experience as an entrepreneur I would like to highlight key aspects of communication with startups and […]

U of M, in partnership with DEED, invests $2.5M in venture capital funds | University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota today announced investments totaling $2.5 million across multiple Minnesota venture capital funds that will ultimately benefit start-up companies in the state. This is the first in a series of significant investments stemming from a partnership announced last November with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) to inject $34.5 million into […]

Initiative jointly funds two Innovation Gap Fund projects with CoMotion

The University of Washington Population Health Initiative continued its annual partnership with CoMotion to jointly fund two Innovation Gap Funds of $50,000 each. This $100,000 in funding will support projects that simultaneously support the UW’s vision for improving population health while also fulfilling the CoMotion Innovation Fund’s goal of enabling research that will achieve sustainable […]

£11 million funding to accelerate innovation in medicines manufacturing 

The University of Strathclyde’s world-leading Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC) medicines manufacturing research centre, has received a new £11 million award from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) to deliver the CMAC Data Lab: A Digital Medicine Manufacturing Research Accelerator. This significant capital investment is CMAC’s third award from UKRPIF continuing its strategic […]

New Faculty Fellows program to grow UH innovation and entrepreneurship

The University of Hawaiʻi has launched Faculty Fellows, a new experiential certificate training program available to UH System faculty interested in growing the university’s innovation and entrepreneurship capacity. Six faculty from the College of Engineering at UH Mānoa have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort: Oceana Puananilei Francis, professor of civil and environmental […]