Author: Office of the Press Secretary, http://www.whitehouse.gov
Interest: 28 Oct 2011 -- Through two Presidential Memoranda issued today, the Obama Administration will take steps to speed up the transfer of federal research and development from the laboratory to the marketplace, and it will create BusinessUSA, a one-stop, central online platform where small businesses and businesses of all sizes that want to begin or increase exporting can access information about available federal programs without having to waste time navigating the federal bureaucracy.
Author: Office of the Press Secretary, http://www.whitehouse.gov
Interest: Whitehouse Press Release: A memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies on "Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High Growth Businesses"
Interest: It’s a critical decision for the entrepreneur that you make before you’re sure and determines you business future: Do you do it entirely by yourself, or do you build a team first, then build the business?
Interest: The alliance will build upon the success of the current collaboration, focusing on the design and development of promoters that enable crops to express trait genes that enhance and protect yield.
Interest: Declaring that "innovation wins decades," Procter & Gamble Co. CEO Bob McDonald invited roughly 800 local business leaders at a downtown luncheon event to “find somebody in the room” who can help commercialize good ideas.
Interest: Officials from the University of Kansas and various economic development groups today unveiled the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center (BTBC at KUMC), a business incubator specifically designed to spur entrepreneurship and commercialization of KU research.
Interest: President Obama announced today an initiative that will facilitate the ability of start-up companies to license inventions for groundbreaking medical technologies for drugs, vaccines and therapeutics developed by intramural scientists at NIH.
Interest: A Washington, D.C.-based technology company announced plans Tuesday to build the state's newest ghost town to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems.
Interest: Commercial ideas generated at universities are kind of like undergraduates. The university cradles them while they’re on campus, but at some point they’ve got to venture beyond its grounds.
Interest: Harvard University’s Office of Technology Development has what it calls an “Accelerator Fund” that has been chugging along for four years now, and it has achieved some notable results.
Interest: The University of Minnesota, which has spent years resuscitating its tech transfer prowess, is now among the institutions facing a patent cliff that will dry up revenue from commercialized research.
Interest: In his recent Washington Post article “Innovation’s golden opportunity” Vivek Wadhwa opines that the translation of university research into useful products benefitting the taxpaying American public has largely failed. I respectfully disagree.
Interest: The New Economy Initiative is a $100-million commitment by 10 philanthropic partners to help efforts at collaborating, mentoring and otherwise lending a hand to young people with entrepreneurial ideas and a willingness to take a bit of risk in pursuing new opportunities.
Interest: I-GATE has opened its business hub in Livermore as part of a regional effort to assist entrepreneurs and businesses develop advanced clean energy and efficient transportation systems.
Interest: Ohio has built its manufacturing base in glass and plastic films to support the automotive industry. This existing infrastructure is now being repurposed to create materials and products for solar photovoltaic technologies. This is key to new solar power technology development and the rapidly growing commercial success of Ohio's energy community.
Interest: An innovative waste conversion technology developed at Mississippi State is moving out of the laboratory and into the marketplace, thanks to a licensing agreement between a Louisiana company and the university's Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer.
Interest: With a long tradition of exploration of medicine and biology, and a research budget that has passed $1 billion, University of Wisconsin-Madison builds on a rich history of discoveries related to drugs and nutrition: Vitamin A and B were discovered here in 1914.
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