Interest: East Central High School students are learning about the combination of good ideas, initiative and the risk needed to be entrepreneurs as part of a new magnet program operated through a partnership with Oklahoma State University's School of Entrepreneurship.
Interest: Five projects have been approved by the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority (BFTDA) for a University Research Commercialization Program grant to promote nanotechnology, advanced materials and energy research and development activities.
Interest: The Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority (BFTDA) approved $3.15 million in funding for five University Research Commercialization Program grants to support energy, advanced materials and nanotechnology research and development activities.
Interest: Since the economy turned down in 2008, there's been an intense focus on boosting small business as a way to stimulate job growth. Small firms, the logic goes, represent the bulk of companies in the U.S. economy and supply most of the jobs.
Interest: LineStream Technologies, a technology company that is commercializing manufacturing and energy management software developed at Cleveland State University, has closed a second round of venture capital financing, raising $5 million.
Interest: The President will announce a new proposal for a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, to build a network of up to fifteen Institutes for Manufacturing Innovation around the country, serving as regional hubs of manufacturing excellence that will help to make our manufacturers more competitive and encourage investment in the United States. The President’s Budget proposes a $1 billion investment to create this new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation.
Interest: BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI), a new regional private-public partnership focusing on commercializing market-relevant biohealth innovations and increasing access to early-stage funding in Central Maryland, announced today it has entered into a Partnership Intermediary Agreement (PIA) with the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer (OTT).
Interest: The funding for the business originally came from Brusilovsky’s parents who both work in tech. Now Teens in Tech is completely backed by corporate sponsors such as Microsoft, General Motors, and AT&T.
Interest: When making decisions to adopt Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and planning for implementation and upgrade, you need to take into consideration your budget and the subsequent impact on operations. I suggest five tips for efficient implementation and utilization of ERP solutions based on my 18 years of experience of ERP consulting at Accenture’s Seoul office. These tips may not be suitable for all companies, but surely will give a guideline to put you in the right direction.
Interest: Go to Stanford University on a map and draw a circle around the university - hockey puck one. Go to Harvard University and draw another circle - hockey puck two. Stanford and Harvard have long been known for their incubation of entrepreneurs. They have been very successful as they have enjoyed a culture of entrepreneurial wealth creation.
Interest: OhioHealth’s Research and Innovation Institute, formed in 2006, allows any of the health-care system’s physicians, nurses or other employees to bring their product ideas to life. OhioHealth doesn’t make money from the inventions, and officials said that they don’t have profit figures from the companies.
Interest: In an attempt to improve the state’s economic climate, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week that the state will invest $250 million in startup technology companies over the next five years.
Interest: Brian P. Coppola, of the University of Michigan, and Yong Zhao, of the University of Oregon, captured this theme in a provocative commentary on the Chinese and American education systems recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Interest: A team of Wayne State University graduate students and their unique energy-harvesting technology has won the $50,000 first prize in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge, judges announced Friday.
Interest: By the end of April, new laboratories will be opening up at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus to provide start-up science and technology companies with state-of-the-art equipment and a better environment for launching innovative products and services.
Interest: The state's top higher education officials are down to the wire on finalizing strategic alliance details between this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, but many said they have already developed a slew of research and business initiatives that will benefit both institutions and the state.
Interest: University of Washington president Michael Young commenting on the opening of the new startup incubator on campus where faculty, students and researchers can work on spinning out new technologies into commercial businesses.
Interest: The University of Maryland has announced 16 new technology product development projects worth $4.1 million through the Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program.
Interest: The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, the 131-year-old business school in Philadelphia, is counting on a new West Coast campus to raise its high-tech profile.
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