Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Adam Bluestein and Amy Barrett

Source: Inc.

Interest: In the late 1970s, about 500 colleges and universities offered courses in entrepreneurship. By 2005, more than 2,000 did so. Yet there has been no corresponding surge in start-up activity. "The things we've been trying on campuses have had a marginal impact, if that," says Dane Stangler, a researcher at the Kauffman Foundation. To be sure, there are individual programs that have a proven...

Link: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100701/entrepreneurship-education-beyond-business-schools.html

Author: Ari Levy

Source: Bloomberg News

Interest: Founders Fund, the venture capital firm started by PayPal Inc. co-founder Peter Thiel, raised $250 million to invest in companies focused on the Internet, science and engineering. The money will finance the new Founders Fund III, the San Francisco firm's third...

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/19/BUFV1EGQIV.DTL

Author: Not Specified

Source: Reuters India

Interest: India has come up with the world's cheapest "laptop," a touch-screen computing device that costs $35. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal this week unveiled...

Link: http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50343120100723

Author: SHAWN BERRY

Source: The Daily Gleaner

Interest: Officials hope a $6-million investment in Fredericton's Knowledge Park will help spur growth in budding high-tech fields. A funding announcement about the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Learning and Technology was made Friday. Above with a drawing of the new building that will house...

Link: http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/1148236

Author: Not Specified

Source: Colorado State University News & Information

Interest: Colorado State University and CSU Ventures have created CSU Fund I LLC, a private equity investment fund to help advance early-stage companies associated with CSU. CSU Fund I held its final close March 31. The fund has already made one investment and is evaluating several other investment opportunities. The fund is managed by CSU Management Corp., a subsidiary of the private, non-profit CSU Ventures Inc., which helps the university to commercialize new research...

Link: http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/5308

Author: ARIEL SCHWARTZ

Source: Fast Company

Interest: Want to generate innovation? Build a hub to make it happen. The U.S. Department of Energy is embarking on an ambitious plan to speed up energy innovation with a $122 million cash injection for an Energy Innovation Hub in California. Dubbed the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, the research center will do exactly as its name suggests--develop a solar energy fuel conversion system through artificial photosynthesis and bring it...

Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/1673660/does-energy-innovation-hub-will-develop-fuel-from-sunlight

Author: CR Rae

Source: The Suburbanite

Interest: Two announcements were made at a press conference held in Akron July 19. Governor Ted Strickland announced the designation of Akron as an Ohio Hub of innovations and opportunity to assist Ohio's biomaterials industry. Leaders from the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA), State of Ohio, County of...

Link: http://www.thesuburbanite.com/features/x1599840317/Ohio-Hub-of-Innovations-is-a-center-for-medical-research

Author: John Pollack

Source: New Brunswick Business Journal

Interest: The province is providing a $4.5 million interest-free loan to build a new building in the capital city's Knowledge Park that will house a Centre of Excellence in Advanced Learning and Technology, New Brunswick Finance Minister Greg Byrne and federal Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Keith Ashfield will announce this morning.

Link: http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com/journal/article/1146669

Author: Not Specified

Source: The Cypress Times

Interest: A novel approach detects genetically abnormal cells in the blood of non-small cell lung cancer patients that match abnormalities found in tumor cells and increase in number with the severity of the disease, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Lung cancer patients in the study also had many...

Link: http://www.thecypresstimes.com/article/MedicalHealth/Medical/UT_MD_ANDERSON_STUDY_TIES_ABNORMAL_CELLS_IN_BLOOD_TO_LUNG_CANCER/31785

Author: Not Specified

Source: Grants.NIH.Gov

Interest: Visit this link for more information about NIH Government Grants, policies, and announcements that might prove relevant to you and your peers.

Link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-10-234.html#SectionIII1A

Author: Not Specified

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Interest: Is Ohio emerging from the worst recession since the Great Depression - or is it mired in an economy that remains fundamentally unsound?

Link: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/07/25/ohio-cautiously-optimistic-about-economic-upturn.html?sid=101

Author: Not Specified

Source: Washington Post

Interest: Micha Weinblatt was still an undergraduate at the University of Maryland in 2005 when he and a buddy from high school started selling T-shirts with slogans and vintage graphics at the local college bar. They called their brand "Crooked Monkey" and five years later, the Potomac-based company has sold more than $2 million worth of shirts to...

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072304285.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: Active Filings

Interest: A teacher at the University of Pennsylvania is working to create a wide-reaching business incubation program to “create an ecosystem for education,” which would encourage entrepreneurs to create a corporation focused on improving education, the Associated Press reports.

Link: http://www.activefilings.com/regional-business-news/new-business-incubator-set-to-help-nurture-education-startups/

Author: Not Specified

Source: Newswise

Interest: A team of institutions led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to pursue research that could lead to a better understanding of how life started on Earth.

Link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/georgia-tech-awarded-a-20m-center-for-chemical-innovation-from-nsf-nasa

Author: Not Specified

Source: CityBizList Baltimore

Interest: Governor Martin O'Malley joined Lt. Governor Anthony Brown to convene a roundtable forum of industry leaders and experts, including medical system Presidents, Hospital CEOs, State officials and other stakeholders to discuss health care reform and innovation in Maryland. Governor O'Malley used the forum to outline the future of Health Information Technology (Health IT) in Maryland, and opportunities to move Maryland forward in the areas of health care reform and innovation.

Link: http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/yourcitybiznews/detail.aspx?id=86027

Author: Not Specified

Source: University of Dayton News

Interest: Dayton received a $3.5 million grant to help transform former corporate NCR Corp. offices into modern research space and speed the commercialization of technology developed in collaboration with the University of Dayton Research Institute.

Link: http://www.udayton.edu/news/articles/2010/07/UDRI_jobs_ready_grant.php

Author: C.D. MOTE JR.

Source: The Daily Record

Interest: The University of Maryland and Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. have entered an agreement aimed at shortening the innovation pipeline and spurring technological development. By creating “centers of collaboration,” the best scientists and engineers in both organizations can jointly research and incubate new technologies. This arrangement works...

Link: http://mddailyrecord.com/2010/07/28/um-lockheed-partnership-makes-sense-for-everyone/

Author: LA TONYA FRELIX

Source: Hattiesburg American

Interest: The cure for cancer could be in the backyard of Hattiesburg residents if Ablitech has anything to do with it. Founded in 2006, Ablitech's signature product is Versadel, which has the potential to stop cancer and most degenerative diseases through the targeted delivery of genetic material into specific cells.

Link: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20100801/NEWS01/8010348/1002

Author: Yannis Pierrakis

Source: The Science Vote

Interest: Creating new industries requires sustained investment over the long-term, continued commitment and long-term resources. The semiconductor and microcomputer industries are good examples of this lengthy and capital-intensive process. In both cases, it took up to ten years of continued risk capital investing before the industries properly took off. Virtually every other new industry since:biotechnology, personal computers,PC software, wireless communications,the Internet,have followed this pattern.

Link: http://blog.sciencecampaign.org.uk/?p=1767

Author: Andrea Belz

Source: The eCommerce Times

Interest: Universities eagerly trying to replace vanished endowment dollars will convince key stakeholders to scrape together pots of money to form modest (US$20 million) venture funds, ideally to create annuities but also to attract top faculty members.The returns of these funds, however, won't necessarily outpace those of established -- or even newcomer -- venture capital funds.

Link: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70479.html?wlc=1280752219&wlc=1282927713