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The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Advanced Transportation Innovation Hub at the University of Michigan recently awarded nearly $1 million to support eight multidisciplinary research projects with high commercial potential. U-M researchers from the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses, along

When Eric Reich was starting higher education software company Campus Labs in 2001, there weren’t a lot of ways to learn and process how to grow a startup. It made the mentors he had at the time that much more

So many promising medical innovations never reach their full potential as therapies or cures, languishing instead in a metaphoric place many of us in biotech know as “the Valley of Death.” This valley represents the gap between when a scientist

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, August 8, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) today announced that the University of Virginia (UVA) has been awarded a Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) grant for $75,000 in support of a commercialization project being conducted by Dr. Steven

Kyoto University-affiliated venture capital firm Miyako Capital has established a fund expected to raise roughly 20 billion yen ($141 million) to back startups involved in deep-tech biology and artificial intelligence. The fund will be one of the biggest vehicles of its kind in Japan,

Acareer in science no longer just means lab work, research papers and publishing in journals. More and more, scientific talent is entering tech by commercialising research and launching companies in everything from AI and quantum to drug discovery and carbon capture. But

TORONTO, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – Together with the University of Toronto’s Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), FACIT announced a new partnership to commercialize artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. The partners intend to harness both T-CAIREM’s innovative translational research in

Drexel University has selected the first Drexel-affiliated startups to receive support from its Innovation Fund. GrowFlux, an agricultural lighting technology startup, and SusMax, which produces lightweight aggregate construction material, will each receive $150,000 investments from the Fund, which was established in January. “Drexel is

An early-stage investment fund the Michigan State University Research Foundation administers received another $5 million in state capital that will go to support high-tech startup companies.  The funding that the Michigan Strategic Fund board approved this morning adds to past

There’s little doubt that startups around the globe come up with key innovations that drive the economy. However, many startups struggle with fundraising, hiring the right people, gaining new customers and entering new markets. On the corporate side, firms face