Interest: COLUMBIA — University of Missouri System recruiters have a new selling point for prospective students. The system now allows students full ownership rights for the inventions they create on campus.
Interest: The University of Washington is in the final stages of putting together a $20 million investment fund, backed by wealthy individuals and foundations, that will rely heavily on business students to spin more startups out of university labs, Xconomy has learned.
Interest: Two researchers from the University of Washington have received grants of $1 million each from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for demonstrating that their unorthodox approaches to fighting HIV and malaria have promise.
Interest: CHAPEL HILL, NC – A new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will provide business and technical expertise to UNC startup companies. The Innovation Fellowship Program will help launch and grow early stage university startups as well as build entrepreneurial talent for the Research Triangle Park region by funding two-year Innovation Fellows to work with fledgling companies.
Interest: Governor Charlie Crist today, continuing his commitment to strengthening Florida’s economy, announced the extension of the Florida Economic Gardening Institute at the University of Central Florida during a roundtable discussion with small business owners and institute leaders.
Interest: Ten Florida universities, 45 proposed research projects and $2 million up for grabs were just some of the factors involved Oct. 1 in the State University Research Commercialization Assistance Grants Program.
Interest: Heads of economic development agencies and universities from across Florida met late last week to formalize the still-nameless group and to begin developing a list of goals — which could include asking the state for money to support the life sciences — to present to the new state leadership.
Interest: GLASSBORO — Rowan University has introduced its first VenturePreneur in Residence, an initiative designed to introduce real-life experience to academia.
Interest: Angel investors spent less in the first half of 2010, with seed investing declining to its lowest level in several years, according to an analysis by the University of New Hampshire.
Interest: Ohio State University officials are talking up an idea for a $100 million-plus venture capital fund that’d be structured as a partnership between the state’s public universities and private industry.
Interest: Construction will begin this winter on a new wine and agricultural testing facility in Calverton to help East End growers research and develop new consumer food products.
Interest: As the much-buzzed about Diaspora, an NYU student-led project created to offer a privacy-oriented Facebook alternative, continues to take shape, NYU seems to have perfectly timed their move to offer support to similar startups. This school year marks the beginning of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, a $20 million fund designed “to spur the commercialization of technologies developed at NYU and to provide seed funding for startup companies based on those technologies.” I sat down with Frank Rim
Interest: San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, which has been raising its ninth venture fund, has a new headquarters in the upscale community of La Jolla. Avalon founder Kevin Kinsella bought the ivy-covered Copley Library for a reported $3.75 million and has been remodeling the building, now known as the Kinsella Library, for his art collection and personal memorabilia.
Interest: Partnerships between university researchers and private businesses, including those envisioned for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Innovation Park, are needed to help start companies in the Milwaukee area, speakers at a panel discussion said Monday.
Interest: Milwaukee-area philanthropist Michael Cudahy has agreed to donate $2 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the university’s efforts to purchase an 82-acre parcel on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa.
UWM wants to develop a new engineering campus and a research park/business incubator on the parcel that is northeast of U.S. Highway 45 and Watertown Plank Road.
Interest: Hyde Park entrepreneur Danny Stull wants to you help you get away from it all by spending time in a park, in a canoe or on hike. But before you get too far away, he's hoping you'll take a look at his new web site Venturepax, a hyper local site that helps you locate the perfect nearby activity.
Interest: In a visit to Cornell on Monday, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley called for a marriage between higher education and entrepreneurship to boost recovery from the recent economic downturn and to improve the local economy by commercializing University research.In a visit to Cornell on Monday, New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley called for a marriage between higher education and entrepreneurship to boost recovery from the recent economic downturn and to improve the local economy by commercializing University research.
Interest: The National Association of Seed Venture Funds, which promotes innovation capital, had its annual conference at the Marriott Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, October 13-15th. It’s an event that brings together angel funds, angel investors, seed and early stage venture capital funds, funds that invest in city, county, state and university economic development professionals, entrepreneurs, business consultants along with federal government officials from the various federal laboratories to discuss ways to fund innovation, the life blood of the United States and the world at large.
Interest: The Sheffield Hallam University graduate recently launched his own business – Art for Spaces – with the help of the University's business incubator, the Hatchery, and law firm Wake Smith and Tofields.
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