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How Canada can provide a powerful spark for innovation through an SBIR-like program
“Government is a big buyer with many complex challenges. Entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to these problems should have a shot at solving them, don’t you think?” This was a question asked this fall by federal Minister of Small Business and
Australia CSIRO sees “virtuous cycle” in reinvesting patent monetisation cash directly into commercialisation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) – Australia’s national R&D agency – announced this week the creation of a new technology commercialisation fund that will be capitalised using patent assertion and licensing revenues. According to a press release,
New $10M fund aims to aid Wisconsin startups
Northeastern Wisconsin’s nascent startup culture will get a much-needed boost next year. A $10 million boost, to be more specific. Maybe more. The Winnebago Seed Fund wants to raise at least that much money to invest in 10 to 14
Tyson Launches Venture-Capital Fund – WSJ
Tyson Foods Inc. is launching a venture-capital fund to invest in high-tech products and services that could help refresh its stable of products, which include chicken, hot dogs and hamburgers. The Springdale, Ark., meat giant hopes the $150 million fund,
RBC Invests $1 Million in University of New Brunswick’s TME Program
The funds will be distributed in the form of the RBC Innovative Action Fund and will support various elements of the TME program, including its pitch competitions, Lunch and Learn lecture series, mentor in residence program, a leadership conference, meeting
Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) releases 2016 annual report on research commercialization and funding
The Center for Innovative Technology announced the release of the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund annual report for FY2016, which tracks the Fund’s investments in high-potential initiatives throughout Virginia. Outcomes reported in FY2016 by Fund awardees identify early returns on the
StartUP FIU Pitch Day brings early-stage ventures to investors
More than 300 came out to StartUP FIU’s first-ever Pitch Day on Tuesday, where entrepreneurs were given the opportunity to present their ideas to a group of angel investors and venture capitalists. Of the startups that took the stage, five
University of South Florida seeks to build $10M startup fund
The University of South Florida has received a federal grant to create an early-stage seed fund aimed at helping retain Tampa area businesses. Seed Tampa Bay, from USF’s Innovation Enterprise and funded by a $250,000 U.S. Economic Development Administration grant,
Rainbow Seed Fund’s £200m Investment in UKs Deep Science at Universities
Rainbow Seed Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies developed at the UK’s largest publicly-funded research facilities and campuses, today announces that the fund have now leveraged more than £200m to work supporting UK’s most ground-breaking and
Psst, Rowan has a $5M venture fund
The venture fund is an outgrowth of the late Rowan’s transformative gift of $100 million in 1992 to what then was Glassboro State College. The money has remade Rowan (renamed for its benefactor) which operates two medical schools, and has