U Buffalo spinoff Ferric Contrast wins $750,000 in federal R&D funding
Ferric Contrast Inc., a University at Buffalo spinoff, has received $750,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop iron-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Contrast agents are substances that are used in the body to help obtain better quality of images of organs, tumors and other biological structures. The compounds that Ferric […]
UC-Irvine New Venture Competition “Ant Tank” Competition
The 15th annual New Venture Competition (NVC), sporting $100,000 in prizes, will conclude virtually on May 21 from 3 p.m to 6 p/m PST. It is presented by the Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The UCI Paul Merage School of Business. Following a record 114 concept submissions, 40 semi-finalists competed on May 8 […]
Michigan adds $950K funding for university tech commercialization
The state of Michigan has approved $950,000 in funding for commercialization of technologies developed at the public university level. In a series of the votes Tuesday, the board of the Michigan Strategic Fund approved the funds for the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization, or MTRAC, state program grant. The funds will go to programs at Michigan State […]
The Top 10 Universities in Startup Creation- MIT, Columbia, Purdue and U Utah top the list
MIT, Columbia University and Purdue University have been ranked as the top three universities in the United States with the most startup spin-off companies, according to a report by IP Watchdog, the largest publication dedicated to intellectual property news. The University of California System with 785 startups and the University of Texas System with 277 startups […]
Coronavirus: Why it might not be such a crazy idea to start a company
For many people, starting a company in the midst of a global economic crisis is the last thing on their lockdown to-do list. But it might not be such a crazy idea. According to entrepreneurs and start-up investors CNBC spoke with, now might even be the best time to start thinking about setting up a […]
The U.S. Is Full of Innovative Thinkers. The Government Needs to Marshal All of Them to Fight Covid-19.
In 1940, as America warily eyed the war raging across the ocean, a scientist named Vannevar Bush approached President Franklin Roosevelt with an idea. The government, Bush explained, should marshal the country’s scientists to collectively—and quickly—work on new technologies to bolster our national defense. FDR agreed. He immediately established the National Defense Research Committee with Bush as […]
Thought Piece: How Coronavirus Will Disrupt Future Colleges & Universities
In 2017, Scott Galloway anticipated Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods a month before it was announced. Last year, he called WeWork on its “seriously loco” $47 billion valuation a month before the company’s IPO imploded. Now, Galloway, a Silicon Valley runaway who teaches marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, believes the pandemic […]
NC IDEA: It’s time to rethink economic development priorities
DURHAM – Last week we announced the award of sixteen grants ($10,000 each) to startup companies across North Carolina. Since the MICRO program started in Spring 2018, we have awarded over $600,000 to 61 young companies across the state. I wanted to take today’s message to explain how the MICRO program was born from observation and necessity and why […]
Venture Capitalists Leave Coasts to Fund Inland Start-Ups – The New York Times
Will Price grew up traveling the world, the son of a globe-trotting banker, and became a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. But when he wanted to raise a family, he moved to Montana and started a fund of his own. “We moved just to get out of the Bay Area,” said Mr. Price, founder and […]
Rice Establishes COVID-19 Research Fund
As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects — in biomedicine, engineering, social sciences, humanities and other fields – intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future. The COVID-19 research fund is open to Rice faculty working […]