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Steven Kutz made the most of his MBA experience to help launch his business, Common Good Investments LLC. His goal with the venture is to create a non-profit, public, and private partnership to produce built-to-suit housing for the homeless and

The University of Edinburgh says the launch of the Quantum and AI Centre of Excellence follows several years of close collaboration. Professor Jane Hillston FRS (pictured), head of the School of Informatics, said: “Over the last five years we have

Large endowment funds underpin the stability and independence of some of the world’s most successful research institutions. Take Harvard University, the leading academic institution globally by Share in the Nature Index. Harvard has one of the world’s largest endowments for

Korean tech giant Samsung is seeking to integrate innovative technologies developed by Israeli startups and tech companies into its mobile devices products and software. As part of a tech program, Samsung will be funding selected Israeli startups with a $50,000

NSF’s Convergence Accelerator has published a Dear Colleague Letter, DCL (NSF 23-066) to make the research and innovation community aware of the convergent research topics selected for the program’s upcoming 2023 solicitation. The program, within the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships or TIP, supports

Universities are a hotbed for young talent, ideas and potential; they’re also an often untapped resource for entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions. Imperial College climate tech Pre-accelerator co-founders Filippo Varini and Elliot Queisser de Stockalper have set out to change this

The latest cohort is set to graduate from the University of Cincinnati’s Venture Lab, a program that helps entrepreneurs develop their ideas into businesses, Spectrum News reported. In its first five years of existence, approximately 250 teams have completed the Venture Lab pre-accelerator. More

The Czech government has plans to create a €55m fund of funds to back three independent VCs — including a fund focused exclusively on university spinouts in the field of AI. The fund of funds, which will be managed by the

A new €15 million fund has launched to help quantum technology research in the Netherlands transform into venture capital-investable startups. Backed by Quantum Delta NL (QDNL), a foundation that seeks to boost and scale the Dutch quantum ecosystem, the so-called QDNL Participations fund has a twofold

The National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) is pleased to announce approximately $1.7M in planned project activities through the Institute’s Global Health Fund (GHF) Project Call 6.1G for three new projects focused on the development of in vitro potency assays