Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: TIM DEVANEY AND TOM STEIN·

Source: http://www.innovationamerica.us

Interest: The top startup accelerators in the world - programs like TechStars and Y Combinator - receive a couple thousand applications for just a handful of spots each session. It’s harder to get into one than Harvard or Stanford. So how do you do it? You could Google “how to get into a top accelerator” and see what advice you find. Or, better, you could pick the brain of a recent graduate. Trouble is, those guys are busy trying to grow their companies. They don’t have a lot of time to sit down for a ch

Link: http://www.innovationamerica.us/index.php/innovation-daily/22718-get-your-startup-into-a-top-accelerator-4-insider-tips?utm_source=innovation-daily---your-daily-newsletter-highlighting-global-innovation-news-and-trends&utm_medium=gazetty&utm_campaign=07-1

Author: JESSICA LEBER

Source: http://www.innovationamerica.us

Interest: Aldea Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology startup developing an emergency treatment for alcohol poisoning, seemed like an attractive investment to venture capitalist David Coats. But he didn't rely on a hunch—he consulted the computer model he'd built.

Link: http://www.innovationamerica.us/index.php/innovation-daily/22727-a-machine-to-pick-startup-winnersn-technology-review?utm_source=innovation-daily---your-daily-newsletter-highlighting-global-innovation-news-and-trends&utm_medium=gazetty&utm_campaign=07-10-

Author: J.D. Harrison

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com

Interest: Start-up crowdfunds political ads: Social Teeth has brought crowdfunding to the political campaign process, allowing users to upload independently produced campaigns to which others can then submit donations. If the advertisement reaches a pre-set funding goal, Social Teeth buys the necessary air time.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/get-started-obama-urges-extension-of-tax-cuts-new-start-up-crowdfunds-political-ads/2012/07/09/gJQAmRG7YW_blog.html

Author: Howard Pankratz

Source: The Denver Post

Interest: The University of Denver Office of Technology Transfer has formed a partnership with the Innovation Center of the Rockies to help commercialize inventions and intellectual property developed by DU researchers.

Link: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21043442/du-partners-organization-commercialize-inventions

Author: Scott Kirsner

Source: http://www.boston.com

Interest: The latest winner of MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, CloudTop, has moved to Palo Alto to take part in the Y Combinator summer program for startups. A number of Boston-area entrepreneurs and investors tried to persuade the CloudTop team to stick around, though it sounds like no one offered to write a check.

Link: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/07/cloudtop_mit_100k_winner_moves.html

Author: LAURA A. SCHOPPE

Source: http://techcrunch.com

Interest: On May 22nd, Sens. Moran and Warner were joined by Sens. Rubio and Coons in introducing Startup Act 2.0, a revised version of legislation proposed last December that contained questionable provisions to allow university professors to choose their own agents to help transfer their technology rather than be tied to their home university’s technology transfer office (TTO)—the so-called free agency provision.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/07/startup-act-2-0-free-agency-is-still-there-still-a-problem/

Author: Lillia Callum-Penso

Source: http://www.greenvilleonline.com

Interest: Entrepreneurs get a boost from nonprofit run by retired executives. Clemson Elementary third-grade teacher Susan Nunamaker developed the Money Cents for Kids program to teach students how to negotiate costs and develop marketing for the businesses they've created.

Link: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20120707/BUSINESS/307070011/Incubator-helps-nurture-small-business-growth?nclick_check=1

Author: Sarah Schmid

Source: http://www.xconomy.com

Interest: The University of Michigan’s Tech Transfer office and the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) have announced that they will partner on a new, collaborative office inside Tech Transfer’s Venture Accelerator. The partnership, the first of its kind for the MVCA, will give the organization’s members direct access to the startups and technology spun out of university research.

Link: http://www.xconomy.com/detroit/2012/07/06/u-m-tech-transfer-office-mvca-announce-partnership/

Author: FRAN SPIELMAN

Source: http://www.suntimes.com

Interest: Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces that ThinkChicago, a program started last year to bring the best and brightest students from around the Midwest in conjunction with Chicago Ideas Week, will double in size.He made the announcement at 1871, a space for digital startup compaines.

Link: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/13489965-418/mayor-intent-on-making-chicago-a-start-up-city.html

Author: Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC

Source: Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC

Interest: GeneAssess, Inc., a New Jersey-based biotechnology company, has received a commitment of up to $500,000 from Foundation Venture Capital Group (FVCG), Inc., to validate FRY, a cancer molecular signature gene discovered by GeneAssess scientists that could provide a more accurate diagnostic biomarker for cancer staging.

Link: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/29/4599159/foundation-venture-capital-group.html

Author: http://blog.sfgate.com

Source: http://blog.sfgate.com

Interest: Berkeley’s Skydeck, a 10,000-square foot office space in the penthouse of the city’s tallest building, offers stunning views to inspire the 14 startup teams that it houses. Each startup team includes current or recently graduated Cal students, and their projects span from iPhone apps to medical devices to innovative new computer software. Location, it seems, is important for the success of these new businesses, which appreciate the Skydeck facilities and their prime spot in Downtown Berkeley for

Link: http://blog.sfgate.com/inberkeley/2012/06/25/in-berkeley-startups-benefit-from-university-on-their-doorstep/

Author: Eric Savitz

Source: Forbes Staff

Interest: One of the brilliant things about the Internet is how easy it is for anyone, anywhere to start a global business. Everyone can be an entrepreneur, and thanks to the passage of the JOBS Act, everyone can be an investor. The JOBS Act is a good step in creating a nonpartisan, positive agenda for economic growth, so it’s worth giving a close look at how this bill passed.

Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/06/25/the-jobs-act-how-to-ensure-it-pays-off-for-entrepreneurs/

Author: http://technology.iafrica.com

Source: http://technology.iafrica.com

Interest: Nearly $1.5-billion was raised for over a million different campaigns around the world last year by 452 different crowd-funding sites, according to a recent industry report from research firm Massolution. That number is expected to grow exponentially once US regulators approve a recently-passed law that allows regular people to buy stock in a startup company using crowd-funding.

Link: http://technology.iafrica.com/news/technology/802372.html

Author: Dow Jones.

Source: http://online.wsj.com

Interest: Kickstarter projects are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, but the crowdfunding platform is impressive in aggregate.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120621-712576.html

Author: Anthony Clark

Source: http://www.gainesville.com

Interest: FloridaWorks received a $11.95 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to duplicate its entrepreneurship training program in seven other Florida workforce regions. The regional board for Alachua and Bradford counties was one of 26 recipients for grants of $1 million to $12 million and totaling nearly $147 million for projects to teach skills needed to return to work.

Link: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120618/ARTICLES/120619593/1002/news?Title=FloridaWorks-to-clone-training-program-with-grant-

Author: Stephanie Reitz

Source: http://today.uconn.edu

Interest: Over the past several weeks, more than a dozen UConn students and newly minted graduates have returned to campus equipped with notebooks, business plans, and entrepreneurial ambitions. As winners and selected runners-up in this year’s inaugural Innovation Quest challenge at UConn, they’re now getting the equivalent of master classes from experts to help them build their businesses.

Link: http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2012/06/from-patenting-inventions-to-persuading-investors-student-entrepreneurs-getting-hands-on-help/

Author: Carnegie Mellon University

Source: Carnegie Mellon University

Interest: Carnegie Mellon University's Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund (OFEF) has awarded $500,000 to 10 startup companies from across the U.S. to assist them in growing their business ventures. Announced last year, the fund was established by CMU alumnus and Flip Video Camera creator Jonathan Kaplan and his wife, Marci Glazer, to provide early-stage business financing and support to alumni who have graduated from CMU in the last five years. Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1f3SW)

Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/carnegie-mellons-open-field-entrepreneurs-fund-awards-grants-to-10-greenlighting-startups-companies-across-the-us-159560635.html

Author: Mary Moore

Source: Boston Business Journal

Interest: The University of Massachusetts has awarded $750,000 in grants to faculty members working on six research projects, from testing robotics systems to new skin cancer imaging technologies, UMass reported Monday. Projects include big data, robotics, bioinformatics and behavioral sensing.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2012/06/18/umass-awards-750k-for-faculty-research.html

Author: Seema Mody

Source: http://www.cnbc.com

Interest: Recently, Stanford University’s BASES group, along with San Francisco start-up YouNoodle, hosted a start-up competition where 100 entrepreneurs from around the world presented to a panel of judges and sponsors including Sequoia Capital, Perkins Cole, and Intel Foundation’s Desafio Intel. The winner of the competition was Ryan Marschang. His start up, Invisergy, uses a special technology to convert any transparent surface into an inexpensive electricity-generating device.

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47865082

Author: Union-Tribune

Source: Union-Tribune

Interest: The JOBS Act and crowd funding — are they the new paradigm? The act is designed to allow small companies to go public with less red tape and fewer Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. Crowd funding is a model that allows the little guy, the small investor, to invest in promising young companies and give himself the opportunity to lose his shirt, same as the big guys who bought Facebook at $38 per share.

Link: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/19/tp-crowd-funding-boon-or-blow-for-venture-capital/