Innovation Corps at Iowa State: Helping researchers turn ideas into companies
Anuj Sharma believes his new startup company can give traffic engineers “super powers” that will make our trips across town quicker and better for the environment. We’ve all driven from red light to red light, never getting very far very fast. We’re just idling away, exhaust rising, patience ebbing. We try different speeds, but we […]
Clemson faculty earn funds for technology development
The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) has announced seven researchers will be awarded fiscal year 2020 Technology Maturation Fund grants to support them as they embark on the crucial last stage needed to move their technology from innovation to commercialization. “The Technology Maturation Fund initiative assists in shaping a pathway for innovation and providing Clemson faculty with […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reps call for $10 Billion Investment in Biomedical Research
Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Mike Levin (D-CA) introduced the Biomedical Innovation Expansion Act of 2019 with Representatives Mikie Sherrill (NJ-11) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) to invest $10 billion over the next ten years in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide support for scientific research related to antibiotic resistance and rare diseases. The Biomedical Innovation Expansion […]
University City Science Center Launch Lane accelerator is now accepting apps for its inaugural cohort
Looking to grow or scale your tech-focused startup? Applications for the Launch Lane accelerator, created by the University City Science Center, are open now through November. Benefits will include an up-to-$50,000 investment, operational support to help transition from R&D to sales, space to work at ic@3401 for a full year, access to mentors and advisors, introductions to investors and other relational […]
Yeshiva University’s Innovation Lab Launches 2nd Cohort With 11 Israeli Startups
Yeshiva University, the private, modern Orthodox research university based in New York City, launched the second cohort of its Innovation Lab last week, in partnership with Gvahim, the Israeli NGO that helps new immigrants to Israel with business and career goals, Cactus Capital, the first student-run university venture capital firm in Israel, and Yazamut 360°, […]
Europe’s Old Universities Spin Out New Tech Companies – WSJ
The world’s oldest universities are learning to promote their newest technologies using American-style entrepreneurialism. Across Europe, academic institutions are intensifying efforts to get promising ideas out of their labs and into commercial use, following the successful examples of Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other U.S. leaders in the field. Breaking with ivory-tower traditions, […]
Stony Brook startup wins $50K in seed funding
A small company from Stony Brook won $50,000 in seed funding Tuesday in a statewide high-tech startup pitch competition. Re-Nuble, which was founded in 2011 by Tinia Pinia, is developing a nutrient system that enables farmers to manufacture their own fertilizer using otherwise unusable waste produce. Held at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, the inaugural […]
NIH to fund hubs to accelerate development of biomedical health technologies
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $20 million to fund five additional hubs designed to speed up the translation of biomedical discoveries into commercially viable diagnostics, devices, therapeutics, and tools to improve patient care and enhance health. The newly selected Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) expand a national network of proof-of-concept centers that links 34 […]