MSU contributes to Mississippi startup ecosystem through entrepreneurship support, technology commercialization
Mississippi’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem is being recognized a top 20 global ecosystem for startup experience, an achievement boosted by the state’s research universities. The 2021 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, released by Startup Genome and the Global Entrepreneurship Network at London Tech Week, acknowledges the roles research institutions like Mississippi State University play in driving innovation […]
Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator Presents Batch 12 Startups at Demo Day
Berkeley’s startup accelerator, will host its Batch 12 Virtual Demo Day Sept. 28, featuring 18 innovative global startups (15 from this cohort as well as three SkyDeck alumni companies) specializing in a wide range of industries including AI, life sciences, semiconductor chips, HR, robotics, and enterprise software. With a five-minute pitch opportunity, each startup will […]
New Startups Built From UC Davis Research and Innovation Emerge With Solutions in Health, Energy and Agriculture
uring the 2020-21 fiscal year, nine startups executed agreements to access foundational intellectual property and commercialize new technologies developed at the University of California, Davis. The emerging startups are focused on technological solutions to meet needs in health, energy and agriculture. “It is always exciting to see innovations from UC Davis translated into commercial applications that benefit our regional […]
Searching for the next Google: launch of McGill Innovation Fund to make history
Today McGill University announced the launch of the McGill Innovation Fund, a funding program that will support both the development of innovative technologies as well as the spinoff companies that emerge from the University. The fund will be open to all McGill members who have declared a Report of Invention to the Office of Innovation […]
Canada must bridge the innovation gap to prevent key discoveries from being overlooked
After years of research, a team led by Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, had helped develop a vaccine to protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The trouble was, more than a decade had passed since SARS infected millions of people around the world. As […]
What is… a translational research institute? – UNeTech Institute
I will be the first to admit that I began working at a translational research institute (TRI) without any prior knowledge of translational research. As I’ve settled into my position, I’ve learned the basic principles through my work. But for my own sake, I wanted to deep-dive into what translational research really is, and how TRIs […]
Three entrepreneurial ventures with MSU ties selected for HyperAccelerator program
Three entrepreneurial ventures with ties to Montana State University have been selected to participate in an intensive training program, known as a HyperAccelerator, that is supported by dozens of successful entrepreneurs serving as mentors. The three ventures with MSU ties, NanoMagnetic Solutions, Resilient Computing and SensorLogic, join two others, PestNotify and Harken Real Estate Solutions. […]
McGill Innovation Fund aims to find Canada’s next Google
Innovation. If ever there was a buzzword with staying power, this is it. Governments, corporations, and universities alike celebrate it, cherish it, and compete for it. But can they actually make it happen? And – in the particular case of academia – who does it even benefit if it does happen? One of the misconceptions […]
PSU Eberly’s 2022 Lab Bench to Commercialization grant recipients announced
The Penn State Eberly College of Science has chosen faculty members Joyce Jose and Sally Mackenzie to receive its 2022 Lab Bench to Commercialization (LB2C) grants. This competitive program provides funding for researchers in the college, enabling them to enhance the commercial potential of ongoing Penn State research and prepare them to translate their Penn […]
$19.9M expands biomed research, translational science in RI
The federally funded Advance Clinical and Translational Research program — of which the University of Rhode Island is a key partner — recently received a $19.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to fund the program’s expansion into a second five-year phase. Advance-CTR is a statewide partnership that consists of URI, […]