Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Adam Monago

Source: TechJournal South

Interest: One company VP's viewpoint: taking the time to co-author and implement corporate/project Best Practices is critical to a software team's success.

Author: Cathy Belk

Source: JumpStart

Interest: This editorial piece covers Washington's resurgence of encouraging entrepreneurship/innovation, including governmental perks to incentivize angel investors' finding and funding pet projects...

Author: Carolyn Bloch

Source: Federal Telemedicine News

Interest: NIH’s Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) is available to help awardees transition their SBIR developed products into the marketplace...

Author: Not Specified

Source: Nasa.Gov

Interest: NASA has awarded a total of approximately $475,000 to Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems, enabling the companies to perform test flights of experimental vehicles near the edge of space...

Author: Patrick O'Grady

Source: New Mexico Business Weekly

Interest: Currently, ASU is working with New Mexico on a $5 million grant proposal through the U.S. Department of Energy...

Author: Not Specified

Source: Industry Week

Interest: $1.5 million project is first to join federal, state, and local public and private resources to create a formal applied research/manufacturing cluster...

Author: Not Specified

Source: Media Newswire

Interest: A significant federal investment in Virginia Tech, with more than $5 million provided to the university over the next five years...

Author: Not Specified

Source: The MarkUp

Interest: Dateline Pennsylvania: university research indicates that if put into law, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) could boost GDP by more than $100 billion, and create 1.9 million jobs...

Author: Leyla Korkut

Source: Diamondback Online

Interest: The University of Maryland is launching the Campus Green Fund, a $200,000 grant allocating monies for students/faculty to fund their own green projects...

Author: Pat Ferrier

Source: Coloradoan.com

Interest: The federal government should look to the Intermountain West, including Colorado and CSU, to lead the way to a clean-energy future, according to a new report issued today...

Author: Erich Schwartzel

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Interest: In fiscal 2010, CMU's NREC lab saw $24.8 million in sponsored research and industry-sponsored research worth $8.7 million...

Author: David Manners

Source: Electronics Weekly

Interest: Privatran, a Texas start-up, is using technology developed at Rice University in Texas to develop memories using 5nm nanowires in their federally and generously funded efforts....

Author: Not Specified

Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Interest: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's free, award-winning SBIR/STTR Alerting Service is a nationwide resource that improves small business access to a substantial source of R&D capital for entrepreneurial ventures...

Author: Kristi Heim

Source: The Seattle Times

Interest: Well-versed in American and Chinese business culture, China-born Q.H. Charles Duan begins, "We need to protect IP and encourage more companies to invest...and to encourage Chinese companies to come to the U.S. to make investments..."

Author: Not Specified

Source: CityBizList Philadelphia

Interest: Adding to $40 million previously raised, Tobira Therapeutics, Inc. raised $14.2 million of a targeted $31.2 million in equity...

Author: The Globe and Mail

Source: David Naylor and Stephen Toope

Interest: "...Taxpayers contribute more than $5-billion a year for regional development agencies...and for labs..." Tips & caveats for Canadian grant-seekers, professor-student hopefuls, and more.

Author: Mark Andrejevic

Source: Internet Evolution

Interest: "Recent revelations about Google’s collaboration with Verizon Communications Inc...should remind us...Google is not a public utility: It’s a private, for-profit...that makes money....

Author: Joanna Schroeder

Source: DomesticFuel.com

Interest: Several of California’s environmental and energy laws are under fire, yet policy supporters claim they'll help generate up to $104 billion in economic activity by 2020.

Author: Not Specified

Source: MarketWatch.com

Interest: Omni Bio will pay UCD approximately $440,000 accompanying a two-year contract to further evaluate the biological activity of Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT)...

Author: Mirel Bran

Source: The Guardian

Interest: Say Czech-based utility group CEZ, "We want to cover 10% of total green energy production in Romania.... And to do that, we are investing €1.1 billion ($1.39bn)..."