Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Joel Brown

Source: boston.com

Interest: It’s a sensor developed by assistant professor Xingwei Wang of the department of electrical and computer engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowell, designed to allow doctors to measure blood pressure in real time as it travels through a patient’s arteries.

Link: http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/05/09/cardiac_diagnoses_get_boost_from_umass/

Author: Anya Litvak

Source: Pittsburgh Business Times

Interest: Access to capital was the No. 1 concern voiced by businesses at this morning’s Startup America roundtable, an Obama administration initiative to increase the focus on entrepreneurship and early-stage companies.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2011/04/28/startup-america-panel-firms-capital.html

Author: Standard-Examiner

Source: Standard-Examiner

Interest: The University of Utah recently ranked first of the nation's 181 major research universities in regard to creating start-up companies based on university technology.

Link: http://www.standard.net/topics/economy/2011/04/28/utahs-economic-growth-continue-through-year

Author: DoD SBIR

Source: DoD SBIR

Interest: The Department of Defense (DoD) posted a presolicitation notice for their 2011.2 SBIR program on the Federal Business Opportunities (http://www.fedbizopps.gov) website on April 19, 2011.

Link: https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1ab8a26a0029d8a594a8d718a5554d7f&tab=core&_cview=0

Author: Renny McPherson

Source: Huffington Post

Interest: The U.S. defense and intelligence communities have traditionally been difficult markets to engage. For this reason, most early stage entrepreneurs know very little about these organizations as potential partners or clients.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renny-mcpherson/the-technology-startups-g_b_853203.html

Author: Nathan Crabbe

Source: The Gainsville Sun

Interest: Potential tenants of the Florida Innovation Hub got a sneak peak Friday at the business incubator, the first part of the University of Florida's efforts to spin off businesses from its research in the area between campus and downtown Gainesville.

Link: http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110422/ARTICLES/110429811/-1/entertainment?Title=Taking-a-peek-into-the-UF-Innovation-Hub

Author: Sahil Luthra

Source: The Brown Daily Herald

Interest: Under federal law, universities currently own faculty inventions. But while some faculty members stand with administrators in support of University ownership, others are skeptical of the system.

Link: http://www.browndailyherald.com/case-raises-questions-of-research-ownership-1.2546177

Author: Kent Hoover

Source: Phoenix Business Journal

Interest: Companies owned by venture capital firms would have much greater access to Small Business Innovation Research awards under legislation introduced in the House than they would under a bill moving through the Senate.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2011/04/14/House-SBIR-bill-friendlier-to-VC-owned.html

Author: Brian E. Clark

Source: WisBusiness.com

Interest: Speaking at the closing luncheon of the national SBIR conference in Madison, Jonathan Pearl, president and chief scientist for Perceptral, said he was dismayed by some of the aspects of a bill now in Congress to reauthorize the $2.5 billion SBIR program.

Link: http://www.wisbusiness.com/index.iml?Article=233427

Author: Melba Kurman

Source: Blogging Innovation

Interest: This article is about a special type of start-up: one that enters into a formal patent licensing agreement with a university. Getting federally-funded, cutting-edge university inventions to market via a start-up sounds like a great idea. It is.

Link: http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2011/04/easing-contractual-burdens-on-university-start-ups/

Author: PUI-WING TAM

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Interest: Raising money for start-ups is relatively easy in Silicon Valley these days. But longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists say it is still nowhere near as simple as it was in 1999 and 2000, when a cash flood fueled the dot-com bubble.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576256943537109826.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Author: Marc Iskowitz

Source: Medical Marketing & Media

Interest: The company thinks the time is right for a friendlier posture. NIH funding has decreased, and venture capital is drying up such that it's harder for researchers to fund early stage projects.

Link: http://www.mmm-online.com/pfizer-vows-to-go-50-50-in-accords-with-academic-researchers/article/200176/

Author: Northern Colorado Business Report

Source: NASVF NetNews

Interest: The federal laboratories in Colorado together with their affiliates contributed $1.5 billion to the state economy in 2010, and accounted for more than 16,000 direct and indirect jobs, a new survey shows.

Link: http://www.ncbr.com/article.asp?id=56921

Author: Diane Boudreau

Source: ASU News

Interest: In 2010, researchers at Arizona State University submitted 187 invention disclosures, received 17 patents and launched four start-up companies.

Link: http://asunews.asu.edu/20110404_techtransferazte

Author: Scott Austin

Source: Wall Street Journal

Interest: Brooks, a longtime professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until last year, has twice done what many entrepreneurs have found difficult — convince VCs to invest tens of millions of venture capital dollars in a robotic company.

Link: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/04/06/mit-prof-turned-entrepreneur-pitches-nvca-on-robotics/

Author: Melba Kurman

Source: Blogging Innovation

Interest: Start-up patenting strategies have become as sophisticated as those of incumbent companies and start-up patenting costs have reached new heights — the average reported cost of a single patent was $38,000.

Link: http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2011/04/when-university-start-ups-begin-to-patent-like-corporations/

Author: Darin Moriki

Source: Oregon Daily Emerald

Interest: Tom Osdoba, the managing director of the Center for Sustainable Business Practices at the University's Lundquist College of Business, advocated a "bottom-up" approach to sustainability.

Link: http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/university-professor-advocates-bottom-up-approach-to-sustainability-1.2146790

Author: Paul Basken

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Interest: Research universities face a long list of seemingly intractable problems.Now, Congress is cutting off budgetary "earmarks" reserved for many big-picture projects.

Link: http://chronicle.com/article/As-Budgets-Tighten-Big/126891/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Author: Robin Wauters

Source: Virtualization.com

Interest: Big Switch is commercializing network virtualization technologies based on OpenFlow, a research technology from Stanford University’s Computer Science department.

Link: http://virtualization.com/2011/04/01/stealthy-network-virtualization-startup-big-switch-raises-13.7-million/

Author: The Salt Lake Tribune

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Interest: A new report by the University of Utah pegs the economic impact of the school’s start-up companies over the last 40 years at $754 million, responsible for more than 15,000 jobs.

Link: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51503363-76/report-companies-university-economic.html.csp