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Four faculty- and staff-led innovation teams have been selected to participate in the seventh cohort of the University of Maine’s MIRTA accelerator program. The 2024 projects will involve developing research innovations in environmentally-friendly advanced manufacturing, web privacy protections, water filtration for

A new funding program for Washington University in St. Louis-affiliated startups focuses on strengthening the St. Louis region. The WashU Venture Network Follow-on Investments is a joint effort between WashU’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the “In St. Louis,

In a move that will enhance its capabilities as a leader in AI research and application, Stony Brook University is launching the AI Innovation Institute (AI3), which will expand the Institute for AI-driven Discovery and Innovation established in 2018 from a department-level

The U.S. Economic Development Administration is accepting applications for its FY24 $50 million Build to Scale program to support organizations that strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems to support entrepreneurs as they build and scale technology-driven businesses—and the employees in the new, good jobs they create—to

Epic Ventures and the University of Utah have announced a partnership for a new fund —University of Utah Ventures. The University of Utah and EPIC Ventures, a Salt Lake City based early-stage venture capital firm, have partnered to launch University

WashU Olin Business School’s entrepreneurship program will award two $25,000 grants in December to WashU-founded or St. Louis-based startups. In addition to providing new funding opportunities for local founders, the Olin StartUp Grants program will give WashU students enrolled in

Identifying proteins for new drugs to treat triple-negative breast cancer. Developing an improved material for solar cells. Creating a threat-modeling system to enhance cybersecurity in manufacturing. These are among the projects funded through the latest round of UWM Research Foundation’s

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a new investment through its Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program, totaling nearly $19 million to 48 awardees at U.S. institutions of higher education, including teams from historically Black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions (MSIs),

ice University has doled out another batch of grants from its program supporting lab-based innovations. The One Small Step Grant, which was announced a year ago and gave out its first grants in February, was established to fund Rice-founded, lab-stage projects on their path

THE University of Glasgow has launched a new fund to encourage the translation of research to strengthen the development of its spin-out pipeline in the field of MedTech. The MedTech Innovation Fund (MT-IF) will build on the institution’s strengths in