Interest: President Barack Obama signed an authorization for an additional $129 million to reform operations at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency that admits it has stifled American innovation and impeded the creation of millions of jobs by failing to keep up with a huge backlog of patent applications.
Interest: Under a compromise negotiated in the Senate, small companies that are majority-owned by venture capital firms would once again be eligible for Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Interest: N.C. State University is teaming up with IBM on a faster, more effective way to identify potential investors and businesses that can take the inventions of the school's scientists into the marketplace.
IBM, which has an estimated 10,000 employees in Research Triangle Park, is providing analytics software that the university's technology transfer office will use to search out and analyze...
Interest: "In each of the last two centuries, American innovations have revolutionized the world. We believe that the 21st century should be America's century as well. America's innovative potential remains the foundation of its future prosperity. We believe in the power of new ideas to create..."
Interest: Nationwide, Obama's stimulus funds are helping boost the number of graduate fellowships in science from 1,200 historically to 2,000 this year, and to 3,000 in the next three years. And the administration says the entire $787 billion stimulus program has saved or created 2.5 million to 3.6 million jobs since it was signed a year ago -- numbers that its opponents dispute, especially as unemployment remains at a relatively high 9.5 percent.
Interest: The program will be led jointly by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and is billed as a collaborative effort among federal agencies funding science research and universities and other institutions conducting such federally funded research. It is intended as a "multi-phase project that will evolve with time in response to the demands of stakeholders."
Source: Georgia Institute of Technology, Research Communications
Interest: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $3 million to the Georgia Institute of Technology to fund a unique research program on stem cell bio-manufacturing. The program is specifically focused on developing engineering methods for stem cell production, in order to meet the anticipated demand for stem cells....
Interest: “This fund reflects the collaborative spirit and forward-looking leadership that has typified West Michigan over the years,” said John Kerschen, Charter Group principal who will manage the fund with co-principal Dale Grogan, in a press release.
Interest: Glenn Steele, director of MSU's Sustainable Energy Research Center, said the commercialization of giant miscanthus is a great example of how the university center uses sound scientific research to seek practical energy solutions.
Interest: “This has got to be the future of our economy,” says Mike Skaggs, executive director of the Nevada Commission on Economic Development. “We’ve got to build companies around the brain cells of the people who live here. It’s of utmost importance.”
Interest: Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Commerce tapped UW-W to administer a $5.9 million grant to help entrepreneurs start companies and small businesses expand in six state line counties.
The university’s responsibility for the grant...
Interest: The sensor is about the thickness of a playing card and a bit smaller. A number of the silicone encased cards would be stuck to structural components of a bridge to monitor and provide real time information on a structure's "health"...
Interest: The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, in collaboration with Anne Arundel Health System and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, has established a new network of academic and community-based clinical researchers, the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network. The JHCRN, which will provide new opportunities for research collaborations, is designed to accelerate the transfer of new diagnostic, treatment and disease-prevention advances from...
Interest: Intellectual property commercialisation specialist IP Group (LON:IPO) has invested in a clean-tech business which has been spun out of the University of Cambridge. Amantys Ltd is developing new technology to improve the efficiency, reliability and the cost of wind turbine converters.
Interest: Yet-Ming Chiang, a researcher and founder of A123 Systems, has developed a new battery design that he claims could make electric vehicles much cheaper. Chiang has started a new company to commercialize the battery technology called 24M. The researcher says that the new battery he has designed could cut costs of...
Interest: It was not too long ago when Chicago was considered a stagnant business community. Of course, while the presence of the Mercantile Exchange and Board of Trade spawned off tons of start-up financial trading firms to make Chicago a hub in that industry comparable to New York and London, the tech start-up scene in Chicago was lacking. What makes a truly successful tech start-up environment?
Interest: countless innovative business models emerge as old ones crumble: Amazon.com , eBay, Apple, Dell, McKinsey, Swatch, Nestlé just to name a few. A.G. Laffley (P&G's CEO) in his book The Game Changer describes their innovative business model generation program and techniques. But, the term is controversial. For fun, go to Google and type in ``define: business model.'' You'll come up with hundreds of definitions ranging from clear-cut to extremely vague and confusing....
Interest: The Pennsylvania Office of Technology Transfer Partnership Intermediary Network (OTTPIN) is a web portal deal management tool for Technology Managers that provides a single location for viewing patents, leads, and the deals and opportunities managers currently have in progress.
OTTPIN is a web portal that specifically fosters interactions between Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Partnership Intermediaries (PI), facilitates Patent Pipeline...
Interest: U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced 43 cutting-edge research projects that aim to dramatically improve how the U.S. uses and produces energy. Funded with $92 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the...
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