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Notre Dame IDEA Center Creates $22.65M Fund to Support Startup Companies
The Notre Dame IDEA Center, established in 2017 to spur innovation and commercialization efforts at the University, has established a separate for-profit investment fund to accelerate promising early-stage technologies and startup ideas toward development. Drawing on the IDEA Center’s race
Michigan Strategic Fund Approves Investment in Programs to Continue Research in Innovation and Technology Across the State
With the support of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), early stage entrepreneurial activity continues to thrive across the state. To continue the momentum, the Michigan Strategic Fund, administered by the MEDC, has approved funding for seven statewide programs dedicated
Investors secure £150,000 funding to help launch latest product
Investors based at the University of Birmingham aiming to develop more sustainable batteries have secured £150,000 to help launch their latest product. Amrit Chandan and Carlton Cummins of Aceleron have secured the support from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund’s Proof
The current status of translational research funding in North America
While university environments can restrict academic freedom, private industry will often attach strings. It is typically very rare that the sole financier of scientific innovation is also the leading scientist, and so sponsored research typically proceeds at the direction of
NCSU Chancellor’s Innovation Fund gives university opportunity for flourishing research
With upcoming application submissions for the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF), NC State staff members have the opportunity to apply and receive research grants of up to $75,000 to support their short-term, commercially focused research projects. CIF program manager and New
WVU board OK’s $1.8 M for Startup Engine business program
The WVU Board of Governors approved spending $1.8 million to lease and renovate space to house the College of Business and Economics Startup Engine. Startup Engine will be a business startup accelerator program. The renovated retail space in the University
U Wyoming’s Casper Start-Up Challenge Announces Finalists
The Wyoming Technology Business Center (WTBC), a business development program of the University of Wyoming with business incubators in Laramie, Casper, and Sheridan is continuing to build upon the successes of their Casper Start-Up Challenge with a third year of
Penn State’s Lab Bench to Commercialization 2018–19 grant recipients announced
With support from Invent Penn State, the Penn State Research Foundation, and the University’s Fund for Innovation, the competitive Lab Bench to Commercialization (LB2C) program provides funding for researchers in the Eberly College of Science — enabling them to enhance
SMPL Receives $100,000 Investment from University of Michigan’s Zell Founders Fund
The Zell Founders Fund, a student-led venture fund in the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan, announced today that it has made a $100,000investment in organic snack brand, SMPL. Today, SMPL also launches its new brand, introducing a line of
U Missouri System launches accelerator program to foster, fund student business ideas
Student entrepreneurs in the University of Missouri System could earn up to $30,000 in prize money thanks to a new systemwide initiative known as the Entrepreneur Quest Student Accelerator. The program, which UM System President Mun Choi announced Friday in his State of the University