Interest: The Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University won "Excellence in Business Assistance and Entrepreneurship" at the University Economic Development Association's annual competition this past November.
This honor is important, not only for those involved with CAVS, but also for the city of West Point and the Navistar Defense plant located there.
Interest: The U is now considered the best institution for startup companies, with a research budget lower than most competing institutions.
A survey by the Association of University Technology Managers confirmed the U overtook its top competitor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the top position.
Interest: Martek Biosciences was founded through the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland in 1983. Mtech contributed a total of $25.7 billion to the economy of Maryland which helped open and maintain 5,300 jobs. It’s popular products include Synagis® of MedImmune that helps give protection to infants from getting a deadly respiratory disease and HughesNet® from Hughes Communications that brings high speed internet access that is satellite-based.
Interest: To California entrepreneur Robert Harman, the controversial Elk Run development in Pine Island, Minn., holds multiple attractions.
As the founder and CEO of a bioscience company whose business is dependent on overnight shipping, the proposed Elk Run biobusiness park’s proximity to the FedEx Express Ship Center in Rochester means faster shipping.
Interest: This year, several “Made-in-New York” clean energy companies supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) received national recognition or reached significant milestones on their work to improve the environment, reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, and increase our use of renewable energy.
Interest: The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, one of the country's biggest university technology transfer organizations, has named Hewlett-Packard's former director of intellectual property licensing as its chief technology commercialization officer.
Leigh Cagan will oversee the foundation's nine-member licensing team that works to match University of Wisconsin-Madison discoveries with companies that can develop the technology for commercial markets.
Interest: NUtech Ventures of Lincoln has reached a licensing agreement with Bayer CropScience AG, a German company, for joint research to improve wheat crops.
The agreement includes $2 million for an endowed professorship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Under the agreement, Bayer will establish the first North American wheat breeding station near Lincoln and support research and education programs at UNL.
Interest: Kansas State University will open the doors of its first building on the 38-acre Olathe Innovation Campus to the public April 26.
The exterior of the International Animal Health and Food Safety Institute is done, K-State Olathe CEO Dan Richardson said. All that’s left is finishing up indoor construction and systems testing, which he estimated would be done by March.
The $28 million, 108,000-square-foot building will house research, education and commercialization programs.
Interest: Abound Solar Inc. said Tuesday it has closed on a $400 million loan guarantee under the federal stimulus program to support expanded manufacturing in Colorado and Indiana.
The Loveland-based thin-film solar panel manufacturer also said it has raised $110 million in equity financing, for a total of $260 million since it was spun off from Colorado State University in 2007.
Interest: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization (NIREC) today announced their collaboration to accelerate the commercialization of a clean technology innovation owned and developed by the Laboratory.
“By collaborating with NIREC, Berkeley Lab can direct expertise and resources toward the rapid commercialization of a Berkeley Lab clean energy invention”
Interest: At University Research Park 2, a ribbon of concrete curb curls toward the grove of hardy trees, and graders have smoothed out paths that will become the business park's main roads.
Infrastructure work has begun at the Far Southwest Side site of what officials hope will become another engine of opportunity for the Madison area.
Interest: A Knoxville-based nuclear services company scored big in a Department of Energy competition for small businesses, winning support for two technology-commercialization projects and receiving $5.3 million in federal subsidies - almost 10 percent of the total amount awarded nationally.
Interest: The new effort is designed to help Western universities and research institutions move their university-developed technologies into industry and start-up firms. The center will offer such resources as mentoring, proof-of-concept validation, prototype guidance and access to other U. programs.
Interest: BioFlorida announces a live debate on the patenting of human genes between lawyers arguing a federal case that puts into question the validity of patents held on approximately 2,000 human genes. On March 29, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet in the Southern District of New York invalidated seven patents held by Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation.
Interest: As part of its effort to aid regional businesses, the U.S. Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced funding for 10 economic "clusters" through a new pilot program called “Innovative Economies.” The awardees will each receive a cash grant of $600,000.
Interest: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced the selection of five projects to build and strengthen "innovation ecosystems" meant to accelerate the movement of cutting-edge energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies from university laboratories into the market.
Interest: Business Leaders for Michigan and the University Research Corridor have announced the formation of a new partnership, called Accelerate Michigan, to help support efforts to make Michigan a “top ten” state for economic growth. The partnership will become one of the largest of its kind between a state’s largest businesses and research universities.
Interest: A University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor is putting together what would be the city’s first venture capital fund, to begin investing up to $250,000 each next spring in 20 to 30 local companies or in firms that agree to relocate.
Interest: A project to build one of the most advanced electron microscopes in the world was touted Friday by the White House as one of “100 Recovery Act Projects that are Changing America.” The Rutgers project was funded through a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation with additional funding through the university.
Interest: The Nanotechnology Institute last week made four awards totaling $192,000. Three of the awards are sponsored research agreements, which are meant to help create long-term partnerships between companies and researchers at universities. The other came from the institute’s Program to Support Translational Research, which provides money to help researchers take technology deemed commercially feasible by the Nanotech Commercialization Group and move it from concept to reality.
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