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An innovative interdisciplinary collaboration between Penn State’s Smeal College of Business and the College of Agricultural Sciences will focus on fostering innovation in food and agriculture. The 2026 Land Grant Startup Launch Competition is the brainchild of Travis Lesser, the director of

OcuHealth, an emerging eye therapeutics start-up, was named overall winner of University College Dublin’s (UCD) VentureLaunch Accelerator Programme for 2025. The joint UCD and South East Technological University (SETU) project received €700,000 through the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund and is

The University of Utah has unveiled a new strategic model designed to accelerate the translation of research into patient impact. Their integrated framework connects laboratory discoveries, clinical research, infrastructure, and commercialization capabilities — creating a bridge from academic innovation to

KAUST’s says this “significant milestone” underscores the organization’s growing impact on the global deep-tech landscape. As a leading international graduate-level research university in Saudi Arabia, KAUST’s startup portfolio has celebrated its best year yet in growing not only Saudi Arabia’s

In the past five years, only four universities have spun off 20 or more startups annually. The University of Minnesota ranks among the top four during that time frame. The U’s Technology Commercialization Office (TechCom for short) focuses on the

The University of Michigan achieved its strongest year on record for research commercialization in fiscal year 2025, reporting sharp increases in invention disclosures, licensing activity, startup creation, and capital fundraising. The results reflect the continued expansion of U-M’s innovation ecosystem,

In his recent Forbes article, David Rosowsky explores how research universities are entering a “looking glass” moment: facing structural change in how they teach, how they research, and how they commercialize. Forbes What’s Changing Public funding for research and higher

In a major shift for New Zealand’s science and innovation landscape, the Government has unveiled a national intellectual property (IP) policy that will give researchers greater control over their own inventions, encouraging the commercialisation of homegrown ideas and boosting the

The University has announced the recipients of the Fall 2025 Orange Innovation Fund, a competitive grant program that fuels early-stage ideas developed by student entrepreneurs. The fund supports innovative projects across campus that demonstrate strong potential to commercialize research. The fund, administered

  The University of Texas at Austin’s Discovery to Impact unit has opened a 10,000-square-foot off-campus wet lab in North Austin aimed at accelerating life-sciences commercialization by offering private-sector companies access to university research infrastructure and expertise.What’s new: The facility