Interest: Inspired by the Youngstown Business Incubator’s enterprising spirit and open-source culture, two successful businessmen, both natives of Northeast Ohio, share their expertise with the Youngstown Business Incubator’s "budding entrepreneurs to help the eight portfolio companies commercialize their ideas and bring their products to market."
Interest: University of Maryland Eastern Shore collaborates with local companies to create high-tech jobs in engineering and aviation sciences for the Eastern Shore.
Interest: "An educator at the University of Pennsylvania wants to create one of the nation's only business incubators dedicated to education entrepreneurs. The U.S. Department of Education is also getting into the act with a $650 million fund to boost education innovation."
Interest: In response to the Obama administration’s “national innovation strategy that would help drive entrepreneurial businesses and hopefully lead to the creation of new jobs,” the newly formed Iowa Innovation Council, will “advise and work with the IDED on public policy and initiatives to spur innovation-based economic development in Iowa.”
Interest: The venture capital industry is showing signs of middle age in that it is “more cautious than ever before and hitting fewer home runs than it did in younger, leaner days. As a result, experts say, the sector is having trouble producing the robust performance long associated with it. This means investors need to look at venture capital, and its impact on their portfolios, in a new way.”
Interest: Based on a study that measures economic impacts of universities, The University of Washington’s impact on Washington state totals $9.1 billion. “For every $1 in taxpayer funds invested, the university generates $22.56 in economic activity.”
Interest: "The State Controlling Board has approved $1.8 million in state grants to help underwrite commercialization of a composite material as well as support services for technology start-up businesses."
Interest: "We hope we can start companies that will benefit the state,” said Simmons. “We want to marry high-potential technologies with people that can help get these companies off the ground and benefit the region."
Interest: "More than 381,000 people at 11,000 Michigan firms are working in high-tech, highly productive advanced manufacturing jobs - nearly two-thirds of the state's manufacturing base, according to a new University Research Corridor study."
Interest: Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center offers grants to struggling start-up companies looking to put their products out in the market.
Interest: Scientists from UC Berkeley, Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology get a $122 grant from the government to come up with a breakthrough energy that can produce fuel directly from sunlight. This grant is part of the second “energy innovation hub” set up by the Obama administration to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel and address environmental challenges.
Interest: The National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) gives Boreal Genomics Inc. and Day4 Energy Inc., $273,000 and $496,000, respectively, to fund their innovative research and development projects aimed at developing "high-tech solutions for global markets."
Interest: More and more companies are realizing that social media is a credible source for marketing research on brand sentiment. General Sentiment is one company that offers social media monitoring services.
Interest: Canada needs to strengthen its venture capital sector and information and communication technologies to catch up with other OECD countries in business sector innovation.
Interest: "The SBIR Phase I threshold has been increased from $100,000 to $150,000 and the Phase II threshold has increased from $750,000 to $1,000,000. Award amounts remain at the discretion of each agency."
Interest: Greater Louisville Inc., the metro chamber of commerce, advises University of Louisville officials to accelerate the commercialization process of its researchers' inventions, in order to keep up with the amount of technological breakthroughs.
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