Interest: A Calif.-based start-up that makes a collaboration Web site where students can ask questions, such as the specifics of an assignment, of their classmates, professors and teaching assistants.
Interest: Research universities with an organizational climate that actively supports commercialization and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers are more likely to produce invention disclosures and patent applications, according to a Baylor University study.
Interest: When 1st Resource Group Chairman F. Conrad Greer, P.E. had an idea for converting stranded natural gas to liquid fuel, he knew his own company was too small to build a laboratory, hire technicians and fund years of research in order to make that happen.
Interest: The research was developed at Carnegie Mellon UniversitybizWatch . The company was founded in 2010 by Rodrigo Carvalho, Lukas Bouvrie and Francisco Uribe.
Interest: Founded as a spinout from the University of Virginia, EpiEP moved to New Haven in June of 2010 upon receiving a $1 million commitment for the $1.5 million funding round from Connecticut Innovations, the Nutmeg State’s quasi-public agency responsible for technology investing and development.
Interest: West Des Moines leaders celebrated the graduation of one tech company from the city's business incubator last week and welcomed another startup into the fold.
Author: National Institute of Standards & Technology
Source: National Institute of Standards & Technology
Interest: A new report* sponsored by the U.S. Commerce Department (DOC)-the results of the first independent study of its kind in almost 10 years-describes both barriers and effective strategies for the transfer of technology developed in federal laboratories to industry for commercialization.
Interest: My entrepreneurial students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, often ask my advice regarding their career choices. However, rather than discussing specific opportunities, I find that I often spend most of my time sharing general tips related to their professional success, irrespective of their particular career paths.
Interest: The Cambridge Innovation Center is different. Across the street from the campus at MIT, and with a view of Harvard, the innovation center is about the space. Oh, and the products and companies it has spawned—from biotechs and clean energy to one of the most important mobile-computing platforms on the market today.
Interest: Can entrepreneurism be taught? Or is it buried down deep in the DNA of business owners? Actually, there is at least one school of thought– literally– that says you can teach someone to be a business owner.
Interest: University of Utah students are earning more than just grades. Intellectual-property rights developed at the school generated licensing fees of more than $54 million over the three-year period from 2007 to 2009.
Interest: A report that focused on analysing the economic impact of the Purdue Research Park network and its associated Purdue Technology Centers on the four communities in which they reside and on the State of Indiana as a whole has indicated that there is an annual economic impact of $1.3 billion to Indiana’s economy.
Interest: Economic leaders hope ideas springing from the University of Notre Dame, with its recent emphasis on research, can rev the economic engine of the city and region.
Interest: A wide-ranging partnership between Johnson Controls and the University of Wisconsin will create three energy storage research laboratories in Milwaukee and Madison, in a bid to put the state on the map as a center for development of next-generation batteries.
Interest: Dr. Michael Heller of the University of California San Diego is a brilliant scientist who discovered a new way of synthesizing molecular structures. Eager to exploit the commercial applications of his discovery, he founded a medical technology firm and filed for a patent.
Interest: As a professor of medicine, Ben Littenberg spent years studying the quality of health care in a conventional academic way — doing research and publishing the results. Then a few years ago, he and two colleagues came up with an idea for improving diabetes care that ultimately nudged him into a new role: entrepreneur.
Interest: Johns Hopkins University plans to send its technology transfer team to tech and biotech companies in Montgomery County at least once a month in order to better promote commercialization of university-developed technologies.
Interest: Through a collaborative partnership to expand cleantech entrepreneurship in Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the State of Colorado have formed the Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development (CREED) in Golden, Colo.
Interest: Shane Farritor had no plans of becoming an entrepreneur, but things changed in 2006. “This started with an alumnus (Globe Wireless chairman and CEO Ken Jones) from the university who is on the dean’s advisory board," said Farritor, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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