Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Jeffrey Norris

Source: UC San Francisco Science Cafe

Interest: Venture capital firms, universities and corporations need to keep exploring new ideas for collaborating more efficiently. That was the message that emerged from a panel discussion among leading Bay Area biotech leaders who met at UCSF Mission Bay on June 29. Improved ways of communicating are needed to better translate scientific discoveries into improved products and services for society, the panelists said.

Link: http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/venture-capital-industry-university-collaboration-desmond-hellmann-byers-sc/

Author: James Nord

Source: The Minnesota Daily

Interest: The Minnesota “angel” tax credit offers a tax break to small business investors.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2010/07/28/tax-credit-spurs-business-investment

Author: Cheryl Powell

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

Interest: The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron is among the big winners in a federal defense spending bill that cleared a critical U.S. House subcommittee on Tuesday. If ultimately approved by the full U.S. House and Senate and signed by the president, the measure will bring $5 million in federal money to the BioInnovation Institute.

Link: http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/health/99444194.html

Author: Dustin Walsh

Source: Crain's Detroit Business

Interest: Life Magnetics, which spun-out last year, is developing a diagnostic device that will enable hospitals to determine bacterial infections and the recommended antibiotic in six to eight hours. Other devices can determine a bacterial infection in hours, but it takes days to determine the proper antibiotic, said Brandon McNaughton, Life Magnetics' founder and chief technical officer, and assistant research scientist at UM.

Link: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100728/GEO01/100729885#

Author: Not Specified

Source: The Associated Press

Interest: An educator at the University of Pennsylvania wants to create one of the nation's only business incubators dedicated to education entrepreneurs. The U.S. Department of Education is also getting into the act with a $650 million fund to boost education innovation.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-07-27-technology-test-entrepreneurs_N.htm

Author: Not Specified

Source: The Associated Press

Interest: Computer giant IBM is teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University on a research lab to develop technologies to help governments better manage their infrastructure.

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H8P7BO0.htm

Author: Not Specified

Source: TheLedger.com

Interest: he University of South Florida Polytechnic's plan for a business incubator on its new campus has been approved by the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. The subcommittee has approved $200,000 for the project, which U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., sought, as part of a broader spending bill that funds the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Link: http://www.theledger.com/article/20100727/NEWS/7275073/1338?tc=ar

Author: Not Specified

Source: Green Car Congress / FavStocks

Interest: A team at Cornell University has developed a new highly stable and CO-tolerant platinum/titanium tungsten oxide anode (Pt/Ti0.7W0.3O2) electrocatalyst for PEM fuel cells. A paper on their work was published online 12 July in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Link: http://www.favstocks.com/new-stable-and-co-tolerant-catalyst-for-pem-fuel-cells/2521471/

Author: Elliott Blackburn

Source: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Interest: Texas Tech will receive $6.4 million to test wind turbine systems new to North America through a state grant for high-tech research, the opening phase in what the university hopes will become their foothold into the commercial wind power business.

Link: http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2010-07-26/state-grant-dwindling-pool-could-lead-techs-entry-wind-power-business

Author: Thomas Lee

Source: MedCity News

Interest: The University of Minnesota is no Pfizer or Merck. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t act more like Big Pharma. The school has begun an ambitious effort to convert its considerable drug research into actual products. The idea is to better coordinate drug discovery projects among programs like the Masonic Cancer Center, medical school and College of Pharmacy and provide expert advice and money to technologies that can eventually be licensed or spun out into startups.

Link: http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/07/university-of-minnesota-ramps-up-effort-to-commercialize-drugs/

Author: Not Specified

Source: AScribe - The Public Interest Newswire

Interest: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association have announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs who are working to commercialize research.

Link: http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20100727.115707&time=12 51 PDT&year=2010&public=0

Author: Not Specified

Source: Exchange Magazine

Interest: Kingston - PARTEQ Innovations, the technology transfer office of Queen’s, believes now is a great time to be in the “discovery development” business as the economy stabilizes and companies become less risk averse.

Link: http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2010/week30/Monday/072821.htm

Author: Jessa B. Turner

Source: UA News - The University of Arizona

Interest: The Arizona Center for Innovation grant will allow the center, located at the UA Tech Park, to purchase laboratory equipment, establish a "Mentor in Residence Program" and develop a commercialization training program that can be implemented statewide.

Link: http://uanews.org/node/33022

Author: Not Specified

Source: Soapbox Cincinnati

Interest: The University of Cincinnati is moving its entrepreneurial efforts into the future with a newly created Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and Technology Commercialization. The office merges the University's Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and its Intellectual Property Office.

Link: http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/0803UCOfficeof-Entrepreneurial-Affairs.aspx

Author: David B. Lerner

Source: DavidBLerner.com

Interest: David B. Lerner's next installment in his ongoing series on University Entrepreneurship.

Link: http://www.davidblerner.com/david_b_lerner/2009/12/the-coming-entrepreneurial-tidal-wave-university-entrepreneurship-20-.html

Author: Not Specified

Source: Angel Capital Education Foundation

Interest: Angels know that the CEO is critical to the success of any startup company. ACEF asked Tom LeFevre, a twelve-year member of The Angels' Forum in Palo Alto, CA and co-founder of Intuit, to share his perspective on assessing startup CEOs.

Link: http://www.angelcapitaleducation.org/newsletter-detail/114-id.209715312.html

Author: EurekAlert

Source: Bioscience Technology

Interest: Two lines of pest-resistant soybean painstakingly developed by a Michigan State University scientist promise healthier harvests for growers and a little green for the university too.

Link: http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/News/Feeds/2010/08/products-chemicals-and-reagents-pest-resistant-soybeans-grow-out-of-msu-research-l/

Author: BJS

Source: ScienceBlog

Interest: One of the most promising technologies for making inexpensive but reasonably efficient solar photovoltaic cells just got much cheaper. Scientists at the University of Toronto in Canada have shown that inexpensive nickel can work just as well as gold for one of the critical electrical contacts that gather the electrical current produced by their colloidal quantum dot solar cells.

Link: http://scienceblog.com/37201/new-inexpensive-solar-cell-design/

Author: Not Specified

Source: UAB.edu Media Relations

Interest: Total knee and hip joint replacement devices that last a lifetime are closer to reality thanks to recent breakthroughs in Department of Physics laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham involving specialized nanodiamonds a billionth of a meter in size. The work was jump-started last year by a grant...

Link: http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/79252/

Author: ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER

Source: Hartford Courant

Interest: Caroline Dealy trained as a developmental biologist. For more than 20 years, she studied how embryos develop. Now the UConn Health Center professor is working on a way to create cartilage cells, with a start-up company formed to help turn the research into a potential therapy and an eye toward one day helping millions of people with osteoarthritis.

Link: http://articles.courant.com/2010-07-23/news/hc-dealy-uconn-stem-cells-0724-20100723_1_cells-cartilage-developmental-biologist