Interest: Venture capital investment in medical software and information services increased from $387.5 million in 2009 to $460 million in 2010 -- a 19% annual growth rate, according to figures from Dow Jones VentureSource.
Author: Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Source: Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development
Interest: New state investments in Pennsylvania's technology sector will help bring innovative products to the marketplace and strengthen Pennsylvania's energy industry, Department of Community and Economic Development acting Secretary C. Alan Walker announced today.
Interest: What will it take to get green building research out of academia and into actual commercial buildings? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes it may be the NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center, an initiative to promote the development and commercialization of green building technologies in New York City.
Interest: Partnerships involving Youngstown State University, Youngstown Business Incubator and Raymond John Wean Foundation are among entities recommended for funding by the Ohio Third Frontier CommissionOhio.
Interest: Research and development investment is critical if the United States is to build anywhere close to the 4,150 gigawatts of potential offshore wind capacity identified in the June 2010 NREL report. In order to achieve this level of offshore wind development, a significant amount of research and development investment is needed.
Interest: Addiction Therapeutix, a Wauwatosa early-stage pharmaceutical company, has obtained exclusive, worldwide patent option rights for further evaluation, development, and future commercialization of compounds for the treatment of neuropathic pain. The compound family was developed by Dr. James Cook, UWM Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and other researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).
Interest: Tuskegee University’s new president has ambitious plans for the historic college. Dr. Rochon plans to take advantage of key research that’s occurring at the University now and follow through on intellectual property protection and commercialization. He wants to partner with the state and corporations to help fund future research and enhance programs.
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The city of New York is working to establish an Urban Technology Innovation Center at Columbia University in an effort to boost development and commercialization of green building technology by taking it out of the lab and providing avenues for real-world tests of new products and solutions.
Interest: The genetically engineered feedstock that is closest to commercialization, a eucalyptus tree, now is ensnared in a lawsuit. And government regulations also are a challenge, making it difficult to even field-test biotech versions of potential biofuel feedstocks, including switchgrass, a crop that could be grown in Iowa, experts say.
Interest: The “Accelerate Long Island” initiative joins the Town of Brookhaven, Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and a number of other Long Island research leaders.
Interest: Nine in-state companies recently received project awards from the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center at the University of New Hampshire to support research conducted at academic institutions throughout the state.
Interest: New York City - Giving a boost to the Bloomberg administrations efforts to establish a biotech sector here, locally based Pfizer is bringing a concept it originated on the West Coast to its home city.
Interest: The outcome was no great surprise, but a key technology grant program of the U.S. Small Business Administration has been given another short lease on life.
Interest: Bianco is leading an effort to build the proposed Minnesota Science Park adjacent to the university’s Biomedical Discovery District in Minneapolis. The 900,000-square-foot project, announced in September, aims to commercialize research developed at the U.
Interest: Two Democrats from Ohio’s House of Representatives have reintroduced a bill that would expand the size of a state-backed venture capital program.
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Altometrics Inc., a startup with UNC ties and the dream of creating a faster Internet, has moved one step closer to reaching that goal in the form of a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Interest: When it comes to federal earmarks, Washington's new "Just Say No" policy may have the University of Southern Mississippi and its peer state institutions scrambling to find other funding sources for millions of research and infrastructure dollars.
Interest: University of Minnesota students hoping to launch environmentally-friendly start-ups, will soon have another opportunity to fund their ideas.
Interest: A former Republican senator from New Hampshire, Warren Rudman, helped create the Small Business Innovation Research program, which requires that 2.5 percent of large federal research-and-development budgets be directed to small businesses.
Interest: A little-known policy council has garnered immense influence with Gov. Nikki Haley - a fact made clear at a budget briefing a week before Haley took office.
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