Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Barbara Wieland

Source: Lansing State Journal

Interest: Have you ever come up with a good idea and jotted it down on a scrap of paper, only to forget the idea later? Maybe you've pondered how much to charge for Grandma's china at a garage sale and wished for an easy way to find a fair price.

Link: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20101108/NEWS03/11080321/1004/NEWS03

NEWS – For Immediate Release

Fighting Counterfeits with Nanotechnology
Arkansas startups announce exclusive license agreement with UALR,

will bring unique new patent-pending technology to market

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (September 13, 2010) – Two new Arkansas-based companies announced today their intention to bring to national and international markets a profound advance in anti-counterfeiting solutions.  The solutions use recent advances in nanotechnology and are based upon an exclusive production licensing agreement recently signed with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Federal Funding to Start

or Expand an Enterprise

SBIR (and its cousin STTR) is BY FAR the most advantageous entr’ee into serious federal contracting that has ever existed - EVER!!! Products and services (even lessons learned) developed under SBIR can be purchased on a sole-source basis by the federal government (all of it, not just the awarding SBIR agency) with no dollar, time or firm size limits - NO LIMITS!!!

We have now seen a number of sole-source follow on contracts of well over $500,000,000 (yes that's $0.5 billion) to SBIR firms, because they were SBIR firms. In fact, there is even some legislation already passed, with more working its way through the halls of Congress, to allow and encourage the prime systems contractors to work with SBIR firms – even on a sole-source basis.

Author: Kevin Bertram

Source: JackCentral

Interest: Gov. Jan Brewer visited NAU on Oct. 15 to announce the 2-year-old partnership between the university and the Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (NACET) would be getting a major financial boost, $1 million, drawn from Arizona’s share of the 2009 federal Recovery and Re-investment Act, more commonly known as the “stimulus package.”

Link: http://jackcentral.com/news/2010/11/nacet-nau-receive-grant/

Author: Jon Swartz

Source: USA TODAY

Interest: Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just closed fundraising for a second tech fund of $650 million -- more than double its first, completed in June 2009, for $300 million.

Link: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/11/andreessen-horowitz-vc-firm-raises-whopping-650m/1

Author: Daniel Fisher

Source: Forbes

Interest: The federal government lavished $90 billion on university researchers last year. Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, is doing her best to turn her share of that investment into successful businesses. It can be an uphill battle.

Link: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1122/champions-free-enterprise-krisztina-holly-ivory-tower.html

Author: Randy Tucker

Source: DaytonDaily


Interest: DAYTON — The University of Dayton has established a new investment fund to help students and alumni get start-up businesses off the ground.

Link: http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/new-fund-to-help-ud-grads-start-ups-993233.html

Author: WENDY LEE

Source: Star Tribune

Interest: A historic business library in downtown St. Paul may become home to the city's next business incubator.

Link: http://www.startribune.com/business/106572533.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUdcOy_nc:DKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUbPi87EK_g:D_vqnH_nchO7DU

Author: Don Dodson

Source: The News-Gazette

Interest: A new Champaign-based venture capital fund has invested in two businesses, committed to a third and expects to invest in a couple more by year's end.

Link: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/151787762

Author: CATHRYN ATKINSON

Source: The Globe and Mail

Interest: Serial entrepreneurs have a huge advantage over newcomers to the startup game because they bring a potent combination of experience, reputation and contacts to the table.

Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/grow/new-product-development/serial-entrepreneurs-profit-from-past-mistakes/article1783755/

Author: Robert Gray

Source: El Paso Inc

Interest: A budding biomedical technology company located in Southern California is considering moving to El Paso. A company exec says the business environment is much healthier here.

Link: http://elpasoinc.com/readArticle.aspx?issueid=310&xrec=5799

Author: Tribune Staff Report

Source: South Bend Tribune

Interest: The University of Notre Dame and Purdue University are teaming up with state officials to offer Indiana’s first business plan competition targeting startup ventures and emerging companies in nanotechnology.

Link: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101102/News01/101109942/-1/googleNews

Author: Alicia Wallace

Source: DailyCamera

Interest: Michael Joyce was 7 years old when Neil Armstrong took "one giant leap for mankind." Joyce, who is now heading up a Boulder-based aerospace company, distinctly remembers the moon landings being prominently featured on his family's black-and-white TV set.

Link: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-business/ci_16478463

Author: John Seelmeyer

Source: Northern Nevada Business Weekly

Interest: The spotlight slowly is moving onto efforts to create homegrown jobs as a base for northern Nevada’s economy. No one ever doubted the importance of entrepreneurial companies to create jobs, but organizations such as the University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada Commission on Economic Development and the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada these days are stepping up their efforts to provide more support to startup companies with big ideas.

Link: http://www.nnbw.com/ArticleRead.aspx?storyID=16210

Author: DILEEP RAO

Source: The Miami Herald

Interest: With 18.5 million people, Florida has 16 Fortune 500 firms. Minnesota has 71 percent fewer people and 30 percent more F500 firms. Per capita, Minnesota has the highest number of F500 companies in the country. But in the last 25 years, Minnesota has not produced a single Fortune 500 company. Are there lessons for Florida from Minnesota's past success, and recent loss of its ``secret sauce?''

Link: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/01/1899006/how-can-florida-produce-more-fortune.html

Author: Kelli Whitlock Burton

Source: The Boston Globe

Interest: Soren Hansen’s first marine lab was in the closet of an apartment in Orono, Maine. The University of Maine graduate student wanted to breed saltwater tropical fish in captivity and shared his idea with a few skeptical faculty scientists.

Link: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/11/01/breeding_nemo_maine_lab_flourishes/

Author: CBS

Source: CBS Local Media

Interest: A $3.5 million state grant has been secured to create the new Agriculture Consumer Science Center at the Calverton Business Incubator.

Link: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/29/farming-and-science-team-up-on-long-island/

Author: Allissa Kline

Source: Business First

Interest: The University at Buffalo’s forthcoming Clinical and Translational Research Center and Biosciences Incubator in downtown Buffalo is set to receive a $4.6 million appropriation from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2010/10/28/ub-cyclotron-awarded-46m.html

Author: The Gov Monitor

Source: Governor of Florida

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.

Link: http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/florida-invests-2-million-to-expand-business-economic-gardening-institute-41449.html

Author: NIST MEP

Source: NIST MEP

Interest: Inventory and guide to sources of financing growth at new and existing companies.

Link: http://www.manufacturing.gov/pdf/10-21 Growth Financing Guide 4th_edition_REVISED.pdf