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The Gilliam Center for Entrepreneurship’s James Madison University Bluestone Seed Fund is winding up its first year of investments with the addition of two alumni-led firms to the portfolio. A total of $30,000 has been invested in seven startup enterprises.

The SickKids Innovation Showcase is an annual event that celebrates the most advanced health and life sciences ideasfrom the innovators at The Hospital for Sick Children and our Research Institute. It will provide unparalleled access to eight emerging biopharma and

The Tulane Innovation Institute will launch operations from its downtown headquarters later this year, thanks to several generous lead gifts from forward-thinking philanthropists. Like the nascent technologies and startups it seeks to invigorate, the multi-million-dollar, long-term project to transform the university’s entrepreneurial

By this time next year, Chapel Hill will have an innovation hub that will attract folks looking for UNC-Chapel Hill’s innovative research and entrepreneurial activity, as well as links to community partners and firms coming to town. The University of

Rice University’s worldwide student startup competition returned in a big manner to its in-person format, awarding over $2 million in funding and in-kind rewards to more than a dozen winning teams. The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition took held on

Five teams have progressed to the final stage of Duquesne University’s New Venture Challenge competition, a competition sponsored by Duquesne’s Palumbo-Donahue School of Business that awards cash and service prizes totaling more than $100,000 to budding entrepreneurs from all around

With a rising percentage of entering students already having launched their own enterprises, RIT helps distinguish itself apart from many other colleges by enhancing the talents of the next generation of entrepreneurs. The Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and

Yale Ventures, a new endeavor to help teachers and students turn their ideas into medical, technology, scientific, and engineering enterprises, as well as foster innovation and entrepreneurship in New Haven, was unveiled on Tuesday morning. Josh Geballe, a newly appointed

Through lectures and group simulation exercises taught by University of Chicago and Booth School of Business faculty, as well as external industry experts, the scientists and staff will get a world-class education over six months on aspects of entrepreneurship, including

At the conclusion of Purdue Foundry’s Boost accelerator, three Indiana-based high-tech startup companies with Purdue University ties each received $25,000 apiece. Seven businesses took part in the initiative, which began with a $5,000 non-dilutive stipend. The businesses took part in