Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Not Specified

Source: Industry Week

Interest: $1.5 million project is first to join federal, state, and local public and private resources to create a formal applied research/manufacturing cluster...

Link: http://www.industryweek.com/articles/funds_awarded_to_expand_manufacturing_of_energy-efficient_building_technologies_22662.aspx?SectionID=2

Author: Not Specified

Source: Media Newswire

Interest: A significant federal investment in Virginia Tech, with more than $5 million provided to the university over the next five years...

Link: http://media-newswire.com/release_1126330.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: The MarkUp

Interest: Dateline Pennsylvania: university research indicates that if put into law, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) could boost GDP by more than $100 billion, and create 1.9 million jobs...

Link: http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/blog/Congressional-Candidates-Views-on-Clean-Energy-Climate-Change-PA-11.html

Author: Leyla Korkut

Source: Diamondback Online

Interest: The University of Maryland is launching the Campus Green Fund, a $200,000 grant allocating monies for students/faculty to fund their own green projects...

Link: http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/university-creates-sustainability-grant-1.1547358

Author: Pat Ferrier

Source: Coloradoan.com

Interest: The federal government should look to the Intermountain West, including Colorado and CSU, to lead the way to a clean-energy future, according to a new report issued today...

Link: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100901/BUSINESS/9010318

Author: Erich Schwartzel

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Interest: In fiscal 2010, CMU's NREC lab saw $24.8 million in sponsored research and industry-sponsored research worth $8.7 million...

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10242/1083767-100.stm

Author: David Manners

Source: Electronics Weekly

Interest: Privatran, a Texas start-up, is using technology developed at Rice University in Texas to develop memories using 5nm nanowires in their federally and generously funded efforts....

Link: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2010/08/31/49357/rice-university-and-privatran-developing-sub-10nm-memory-technology.htm

Author: Not Specified

Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Interest: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's free, award-winning SBIR/STTR Alerting Service is a nationwide resource that improves small business access to a substantial source of R&D capital for entrepreneurial ventures...

Link: http://www.pnl.gov/edo/opportunities/sbir.stm

Author: Kristi Heim

Source: The Seattle Times

Interest: Well-versed in American and Chinese business culture, China-born Q.H. Charles Duan begins, "We need to protect IP and encourage more companies to invest...and to encourage Chinese companies to come to the U.S. to make investments..."

Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2012764678_duanqa31.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: CityBizList Philadelphia

Interest: Adding to $40 million previously raised, Tobira Therapeutics, Inc. raised $14.2 million of a targeted $31.2 million in equity...

Link: http://philly.citybizlist.com/yourcitybiznews/detail.aspx?id=91611

Author: The Globe and Mail

Source: David Naylor and Stephen Toope

Interest: "...Taxpayers contribute more than $5-billion a year for regional development agencies...and for labs..." Tips & caveats for Canadian grant-seekers, professor-student hopefuls, and more.

Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/dont-swallow-these-innovation-nostrums/article1688275/

Author: Mark Andrejevic

Source: Internet Evolution

Interest: "Recent revelations about Google’s collaboration with Verizon Communications Inc...should remind us...Google is not a public utility: It’s a private, for-profit...that makes money....

Link: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=1043&doc_id=196267&f_src=internetevolution_gnews

Author: Joanna Schroeder

Source: DomesticFuel.com

Interest: Several of California’s environmental and energy laws are under fire, yet policy supporters claim they'll help generate up to $104 billion in economic activity by 2020.

Link: http://domesticfuel.com/2010/08/30/california-apollo-program-formed-to-create-green-jobs/

Author: Not Specified

Source: MarketWatch.com

Interest: Omni Bio will pay UCD approximately $440,000 accompanying a two-year contract to further evaluate the biological activity of Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT)...

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/omni-bio-enters-new-multi-year-research-agreement-with-university-of-colorado-denver-2010-08-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Author: Mirel Bran

Source: The Guardian

Interest: Say Czech-based utility group CEZ, "We want to cover 10% of total green energy production in Romania.... And to do that, we are investing €1.1 billion ($1.39bn)..."

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/31/romania-wind-power-renewable-energy

Author: Tom Breckenridge

Source: The Plain Dealer

Interest: "CSU's research dollars averaged over $20 million in recent years, a figure that Berkman and Walker want to increase..."

Link: http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/08/cleveland_state_university_striving_to_turn_research_into_jobs.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Interest: In May TPP raised £9.6 million (about $14.9 million) to fund its IP acquisition strategy. The initially five-year collaboration...

Link: http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/tpp-and-edinburgh-university-team-up-to-develop-preclinical-ip-for-multiple-diseases/81243852/

Author: Mark Chediak and Simon Lomax

Source: Bloomberg News

Interest: California’s clean energy investors are raising millions of dollars for an advertising battle with oil refiners who want to delay the state’s new law on reducing greenhouse gas...

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-20/clean-energy-investors-flash-cash-for-ads-in-california-climate-law-battle.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: DBusinessNews.com

Interest: Through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), the State of Texas invests $2 million in Life Science start-up, ZS Pharma, Inc...

Link: http://dallas.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?articletitle=FW company receives $2 million from Texas Emerging Technology Fund&newsid=217210&type_news=latest&s=sbcn

Author: Peter Key

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal

Interest: The Energy Commercialization Institute awarded $160,522 to five business-university partnerships from its Energy Sponsored Research Agreement Fund.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2010/08/23/daily2.html