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Can college incubators fuel the next wave of tech startups?
While the debate of how fast or how effectively the economy has been growing in recent years, there is one clear challenge in front of the Indian economy: the problem of creating enough jobs. The fact that the size of
Ryerson University organizations launch cybersecurity accelerator
Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst, a cybersecurity research centre at Toronto’s Ryerson University, is working in partnership with Ryerson’s business incubator The DMZ, to launch the Catalyst Cyber Accelerator. The initiative is billed as Canada’s first commercial accelerator specifically designed for scale-up companies in
A ‘choose your own’ entrepreneurial adventure | Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis offers a rich ecosystem of support for budding innovators on campus and is consistently recognized nationally for its excellence in educating and preparing the next generation of entrepreneurs. A new program for undergraduates further deepens
Office of Commercialization awards 10 WSU researchers with commercialization funding
Ten research projects with high market potential received the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) awarded by the Office of Commercialization (OC). The OC provides researchers up to $50,000 via the CGF to booster their ability to make an economic impact on
Rutgers University Receives $4M as New Hub Under NIH REACH Program to Accelerate Development of Biomedical Technologies
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey was selected as one of five new hubs under the National Institutes of Health’s Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hubs (REACH) program to speed up the translation of biomedical discoveries into commercially viable diagnostics,
New $6M UNH lab space provides space for students, start-ups
Inside one of the new labs at the University of New Hampshire’s Manchester campus on a recent afternoon, assistant professor of biotechnology Kristen Johnson and two students evaluated genes as part of pancreatic cancer research. The process is known as
CWRU research team receives $1 million to advance therapies for Huntington’s disease
With the support of a $1 million grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust, researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are furthering their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD)
Notre Dame’s IDEA Center Launches Startups
A business incubator at the University of Notre Dame doubled in 2019 the number of startup businesses it helped launch in the previous two years combined. The IDEA Center says 32 young companies were put in motion last year, bringing
How To Grow Your Startup With The Help Of An Angel Investor-Forbes
Does watching Shark Tank make you dream about finding an angel investor of your own? Well, stop dreaming and start searching—angels are real and not just found on TV. In fact, the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research reports in 2018 that
Think universities are making lots of money from inventions? Think again. – The Washington Post
Response from innovosource: We love and hate this article at the same time. We love that university commercialization is getting coverage and that the author highlights the difficulty of bringing university tech and startups to the marketplace. We hate that