Interest: He proposed a new urban renewal area that would include Portland State University's campus and announced that the Portland Development Commission would begin targeting research and commercialization.
Interest: The Energy Dynamics Lab is devoted to finding high-tech solutions to provide improvements in United States energy security. The lab was founded in 2009 under the USU Research Foundation.
Interest: Representatives from Maryland's technology and venture capital communities congregated in Annapolis last week for the General Assembly's first hearings on legislation that would pump $100 million into a state fund that provides early-stage capital to promising state businesses.
Interest: Corridor Venture Partners is in the process of raising capital for its first fund, and is targeting Cleveland due to the city’s abundance of healthcare investment opportunities, from medical devices to diagnostics to health IT.
Interest: A North Carolina State University endowment fund established to bridge pure research and product commercialization for entrepreneurs has awarded a $10k grant to a biomedical engineering project that will use MEMS to make catheters flexible, then stiff, for stent delivery.
Interest: The Technology Commercialization Tax Credit benefits companies that commercialize technology developed through research by a Louisiana university. For example, a pharmaceutical company received the refundable tax credit for using LSU research to develop cancer treatments.
Interest: Utah State University has had boots on the ground here for four decades. But it wasn’t until last fall that it put a distinctive new footprint in the community with the opening of the Bingham Entrepreneurship & Energy Research Center.
Interest: The National Cancer Institute will use $10 million this year to fund 10 small businesses in the later stages of developing diagnostics, therapeutics, and imaging tools for cancer and seeking help in moving these products toward commercialization.
Interest: Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel said today he plans to create a new task force to promote economic development efforts related to the defense industry. The news comes on the heels of a University of Michigan study on the defense industry in the county and opportunities for growth.
Interest: There’s a perfectly good reason why Iowa should be the center of cellulosic ethanol development in the United States, according to project stakeholders and state officials.
Interest: Ohio University and its inventors have sold partial royalty income rights to its license for the growth hormone antagonist drug SOMAVERT® (pegvisomant for injection), to a private equity firm managed by DRI Capital Inc., pursuant to a five-year agreement that could net the institution and its inventors up to $52 million for new biomedical research and technology commercialization initiatives.
Interest: Although the deal was sealed in late December, the details about leading pharmaceutical company Roche’s purchase of Marcadia Biotech, a small company specializing in treatments for diabetes and obesity, were officially released at Roche’s annual report during the first week of February.
Interest: BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and TORONTO, Feb. 15, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Canada) announced that they have entered into a research agreement and licensing option for vasculotide, an investigational compound to treat chronic wounds.
Interest: State Senator Beth Bye (D-West Hartford) joined Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, acting UConn President Philip E. Austin and a host of other legislators and educators today to cut the ribbon on a brand-new $49.5 million Cell and Genome Sciences Building at the University of Connecticut Health Center here which employs hundreds of local scientists while accelerating research into disease cures and therapies.
Interest: Pure organic compounds that glow in jewel tones could potentially lead to cheaper, more efficient and flexible display screens, among other applications.
Interest: The Oregon Wave Energy Trust rolled out a new Oregon Wave Energy Commercialization Program this week, announcing a partnership with Portland State University's School of Business Administration.
Interest: The Obama administration has hewed to one particular theme during the rollout of Startup America, its new plan to boost high-growth startups: No new taxpayer funds will be deployed.
Interest: The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center was awarded $450,000 for a university research commercialization grant aimed at developing an industry and university network for building the state’s energy sector
Interest: Illinois Senate Bill 107 will authorize the Illinois State Treasurer to invest an additional 1 percent of the state’s portfolio into venture capital funds, bringing the total authorized to 2 percent.
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