University Gap Fund/Accelerator Leader Interview Series: Tech Launch Arizona
An Interview with the TLA Team How would you describe the need for gap funding/accelerator programs to someone outside of the university tech commercialization/innovation community? University research presents a compelling opportunity for commercialization, but sometimes the innovation itself may not be ready for license into a company. Certain questions need to be addressed: Do […]
Pilot Funding to Help Advance Translational Research
“Our partnership with Washington University creates opportunities for MU faculty to compete for funding in many ways, including the Clinical and Translational Research Pilot Program,” said Jerry Parker, PhD, associate dean for research. “The Pilot Awards help faculty gather preliminary data for larger applications, so they are an important component of our research ecosystem.” The […]
Industry and University Collaborations: How Partnerships Drive Innovation
Recent development in industry and university collaborations have proven themselves a worthwhile investment for both industry leaders and universities. Take the Clemson University bioengineering students for instance. While traveling abroad in Tanzania, the students assessed the medical device needs in that particular area for the university’s Developing World Biomedical Device Innovation Co-Op program. The program […]
Want disruptive research? Go small instead of big
Conventional wisdom suggests that large teams are better at solving complex problems. And, in this era of specialization, many discoveries are the work of large groups of experts from a diversity of fields. But it’s not yet time to abandon support for small teams of scientists, according to a new study in Nature. By analyzing data […]
New collaboration focused on driving more investment deals for Nevada startups
According to the Kauffman Foundation, Northern Nevada has the number one highest startup density for a Metropolitan statistical area of its size. In support of northern Nevada startups, a new collaboration between the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business, the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada and the Nevada Small Business Development Center will […]
How business-savvy scientists can find success in the risky start-up world
Materials scientist Sebastian Peter is a dyed-in-the-wool academic with more than 130 papers to his name. A few years ago, Peter, who is at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru, India, started to wonder about ways to apply his research. In 2016, he heard about the US$20-million XPRIZE. The non-profit organization […]
What happens to technology, talent when startups fail?
An undercurrent of the SmallSat Symposium was a widespread conviction that a shakeout is looming for certain entrepreneurial space sectors, prompting questions about the future of technology, personnel and business models that never get off the ground, literally or figuratively. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have established close relationships with small satellite startups, giving the companies […]
LIBs…One Interesting Way to Finance Tech Startups Outside of Superstar Cities | HBR
Is anyone really surprised by Amazon’s announcement that it will build its new headquarters in two large, affluent East Coast metropolitan areas? Amazon’s decision is yet another data point in the increasing concentration of wealth in big multinational companies and large urban centers. Meanwhile, in smaller cities and middle-income regions across the globe, even the best ideas and most promising […]
Ohio Innovation Fund Adds Cybersecurity Start-up to its Portfolio of High-Growth Ohio Companies
Ohio Innovation Fund (OIF) is pleased to announce the launch of DAtAnchor. Founded by NSF-award winning MIT Ph.D. and The Ohio State University professor Emre Koksal, DAtAnchor’s proprietary cybersecurity solution embeds crypto-security into the data, and tracks and controls who has access to data based on multiple context factors such as person, location, type of data, […]
Materials Spin-out Formed Around Collaborative Research
A joint venture spin-out that will take forward a new class of materials invented by researchers at both institutions has been announced by the University of Liverpool and Queens University Belfast. Porous Liquids Technologies Ltd has been founded on research carried out since 2015 when the first example of porous liquids were discovered by Professor […]