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Alberta Innovates is putting fresh money into supporting Alberta’s small and medium-sized technology businesses and bolstering the province’s burgeoning technology ecosystem. The first 15 projects selected through the Alberta Innovates Ecosystem Development Pilot Program have received more than $9.1 million

“It’s more of an art than a science,” says the author. Most likely, you’ve heard this expression in regard to cooking, from a friend or relative expressing their mixed results with a particular recipe. The implication is that feel and

UConn’s Technology Incubation Program (TIP) has developed into the state’s largest incubator for emerging entrepreneurs since its founding in 2003. Hundreds of employment are created in Connecticut as a result of the program’s entrepreneurs and innovators, as well as an

A better surgical adhesive was long overdue. Pittsburgh, on the other hand, was not. So, a decade after its establishment, Cohera Medical, a promising firm founded on an invention by University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) chemical engineer Eric Beckman, relocated to

Y Combinator, or YC for short, is the world’s best-known accelerator. Its expanding cohort sizes, twice-yearly cadence and “standard deal” made it a trendsetting startup program; one that has sufficient heft to influence the overall direction of the early-stage market

According to a May 31 release from Hackensack Meridian Health, experts from northern New Jersey, New York City, and California are teaming forces to investigate and develop antiviral medicines for SARS-CoV-2, its variations, other coronaviruses and pandemic viruses, as well

The Michigan State University Foundation’s two-year-old fund has now invested roughly $6 million in companies across the Mitten state. The Michigan Rise Pre-Seed Fund III, a subsidiary of the Michigan State University Foundation, announced earlier this month that it has

Purdue University and Rolls-Royce officials have signed a research and testing agreement that will bring $75 million over 10 years to the West Lafayette campus. It is the largest deal with an industry partner in Purdue history. The Purdue and

Improved ceramics manufacturing, breakthrough medical screening tests and a more convenient way to detect nuclear particles earned funding from the latest round of a Florida State University program that helps researchers bring their work to the marketplace. FSU’s Office of

Thanks to $250,000 in seed funding announced today by University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan, new technologies aimed at reducing patients’ and health-care workers’ exposure to drug-resistant bacteria, detecting important ocean data, and determining genetic disorders linked to autism and