Interest: A popular strategy -- one with less potential risk than raising money from donors (especially when that money comes with strings attached and from sources that some in academe find problematic) -- is to trade on the intellectual capital of faculty members by bringing the fruits of their scholarly work to market.
Interest: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that universities cannot automatically own the rights to the inventions that result from federally financed research.
Interest: In recent years, many NSF-funded research projects have resulted in discoveries that have been commercialized via start-up companies that employ thousands of people. The benefits to society are tremendous but often go unrecognized outside of the academic community.
Interest: Hundreds of academics from more than two dozen countries are gathered at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management Thursday, today and Saturday to ask and sometimes answer questions about entrepreneurs.
Interest: A Colorado State University electrical and computer engineering professor will spend the next three years developing a new airborne radiometer to demonstrate new technology for a planned NASA Earth observation satellite.
Interest: U.S. Senator Scott Brown received a warm welcome Friday morning when he met with a group of entrepreneurs at the Cambridge Innovation Center. The Innovate America Act encourages collaboration between industry and academic centers by expanding the Basic Research Tax Credit to include all industry-funded university research.
Interest: Economic historians looking back at this period will be hard pressed to avoid commenting on the influence of at least one data point: from 1980–2005, firms less than five years old accounted for all net job growth in the United States.
Interest: An upstate New York university is doing more than investing in students. It’s investing in their startups. In lieu of tuition, Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., is offering young entrepreneurs with established businesses the chance to attend the school through a combination of financial aid and selling a portion of their business to the school.
Interest: Venture capitalists sure do look good in suits. Ask anyone who attended the IBF MedTech Investing Conference at the swanky Graves Hotel in downtown Minneapolis last week. But external beauty aside, do they bring any real value — read money — to early stage medical technology firms?
Interest: Accelerating the pace of innovation and entrepreneurship – and finding the money to fund it –has become a top agenda item of the region’s foremost CEOs.
Interest: Three months of 18-hour workdays without pay. An endless amount of greasy takeout food. Countless fitful naps on the office couch. And for the seven entrepreneurs behind TripLingo, it all came down to this moment. Would Apple accept their foreign-language app and put it out for sale to millions in its iTunes store, or would it turn them down?
Interest: The United States needs new, bold science innovation to address the challenges facing people and the planet—and to create jobs and a strong economy. Yet what is glamorous in popular business culture is not science innovation, but rather bold pitches, business innovations, fast and big exits.
Interest: For months, Brookhaven National Lab was staring at the face of devastating House budget cuts of $1.1 billion that threatened to cut the staff by 930, or one third, and potentially discontinue the operations of internationally renown facilities like the RHIC particle accelerator.
Interest: The U.S. economy has always been driven by innovation, with high-tech research, development, and commercialization spurring economic growth. We have relied largely on our universities as the training grounds for the high-tech workforce.
Interest: The economic downturn had a significant impact on the US economy, and the technology transfer industry was no exception. With licensing revenues declining and VCs largely sitting on the sidelines, many tech transfer offices decided to take action.
Interest: The Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN) is a project of SSTI funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish and support a virtual nationwide community of nonprofit Venture Development Organizations (VDOs).
Interest: Speaking at the U.S. Economic Development Administration's (EDA) Southwest Region Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Albuquerque, N.M., U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development John Fernandez today unveiled a new website to connect Venture Development Organizations (VDO) in America's regions and accelerate economic development efforts that promote growth and job creation.
Interest: Senate President Donald E. Williams Jr., joined by state lawmakers, industry leaders, and University officials, on Friday announced plans to build a multi-million dollar technology park on the University of Connecticut campus.
Interest: Many entrepreneurs who face this issue focus on the capital rather than who or what may be attached to it. Assuming investors are attracted, the entrepreneur may find that those investors are the wrong partners, both for personal and professional reasons.
Interest: In what could be the missing resource for growth-oriented business start-ups, the Innovation Lab is ready for a public unveiling this week, although a number of businesses are already taking advantage of the resource.
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