Research Commercialization Academy (BETA 0.01)

Author: Christina Farr

Source: http://venturebeat.com

Interest: Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday. The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a number of successful companies in its fifteen-year history, notably Kiva, CourseRank and Togetherville. BASES is a hotbed of social entrepreneurship, which is the practice of using business and business process

Link: http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/entrepreneur-student-fair-on-steroids-brings-heavy-hitter-vcs-to-stanford/

Author: Mary Simms

Source: http://yosemite.epa.gov

Interest: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is awarding $2 million to 25 companies throughout the nation in support of technology development toward sustainable solutions for the environment. The SBIR program is part of EPA’s Technology Innovation for Environmental and Economic Progress: An EPA Roadmap, which focuses on linking research and development, policy and finance.

Link: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/27a52eb36102b4e485257a0600578b32?OpenDocument

Author: Ryan Lawler

Source: techcrunch.com

Interest: Stanford has been a hotbed of startup activity for decades, and it’s not just the engineering department. It’s student-run organizations like the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) program. And the group, which has been instrumental in promoting startup activity at the university for the last 15 years, will be awarding $150,000 in prizes to participants from four different funding competitions this Tuesday.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/20/stanford-bases-finale/

Author: Lauren Landry

Source: http://bostinno.com

Interest: The University’s announced they’re launching the “Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education,” all made possible thanks to a $5 million investment by Northeastern alum Alan S. McKim, the founder and chairman of Clean Harbors, according to news@Northeastern.

Link: http://bostinno.com/2012/05/17/northeastern-announces-a-new-center-for-entrepreneurship-education/

Author: Lorain County Community College Foundation

Source: Lorain County Community College Foundation

Interest: The Innovation Fund, founded by the Lorain County Community College Foundation, is awarding $375,000 to six technology startup companies spread across five Northeast Ohio counties. The funding round, which is comprised of three $25,000 awards and three $100,000 awards, includes the first award winners from Lake and Stark counties. Other counties represented are Lorain, Cuyahoga, and Portage.

Link: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/17/4497499/six-startups-in-five-northeast.html

Author: Andrew Razeghi

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

Interest: The U.S. doesn’t need a new economic engine. It already has one: entrepreneurship. It’s just that we aren’t getting the mileage out of it that we could. Small businesses are instrumental to the U.S. economy. They employ 50 percent of all private-sector workers and create more than 60 percent of new jobs. The proof is present; entrepreneurs and small-business owners can revive the economy but they need more than just capital.

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-18/u-s-can-create-jobs-by-energizing-its-startups.html

Author: Lorain County Community College Foundation

Source: Lorain County Community College Foundation

Interest: The Innovation Fund, founded by the Lorain County Community College Foundation, is awarding $375,000 to six technology startup companies spread across five Northeast Ohio counties.

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/six-startups-in-five-northeast-ohio-counties-win-innovation-fund-awards-2012-05-17

Author: Steve Rosen, Tribune Media Services

Source: Chicago Tribune

Interest: Fifteen students in a business school class at the University of Missouri in Columbia displayed all those traits over the past school year while running a venture capital fund with a $600,000 pot of money. The purpose of the fund, which is completely student-run, is to identify and invest in potential high-growth start-up companies in Missouri.

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-201205141300--tms--kidmoneyctnsr-a20120514may14,0,1857503.story

Author: NCET2

Source: NCET2 Research Commercialization and SBIR Center

Interest: Two webinars that feature university technologies and partnering are scheduled for May and June. MedStar Institute for Innovation, on May 22 will talk about resilience engineering and its applications to healthcare. On June 5, the University of Minnesota will talk about Minnesota Innovation Partnerships as a new and unique approach to the way the University of Minnesota handles intellectual property with business and industry partners. Click on the link below for more information.

Link: http://center.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=351

Author: Staff

Source: NCET2 Research Commercialization and SBIR Center

Interest: STARTS TOMORROW! Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 8:00 to 9:30pm ET This course will provide you with comprehensive and practical steps to converting your research project into a commercial product. This course is based upon practical lessons from the presenter’s 28 years of real life experiences as founder or co-founder of five start-up companies, one of which was taken public through an IPO.

Link: http://center.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_joomla_lms&Itemid=53&task=details_course&id=70

Author: http://www.marketwatch.com

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com

Interest: Young entrepreneurs developing energy from waste water treatment, robots for cleaning solar panels and solar cell films with 20% more efficiency took the top prizes at the First Look West (FLoW) regional finals competition, which closed last week. At an awards celebration held at the California Institute of Technology on May 1, Stanford Nitrogen Group, Greenbotics and Xite Solar shared $200,000 in prize money.

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/200k-awarded-to-university-student-led-startups-focused-on-clean-and-renewable-energy-2012-05-10

Author: Kathryn Meier

Source: http://www.udel.edu

Interest: T3D Nanotech, LLC, a high technology startup company spun off from patent pending nanotech research at the University of Delaware, was recently awarded $1,000 in UD’s Hen Hatch competition. But that award was preceded by another honor: selection to participate in the 2012 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC). As the world’s largest and richest business plan competition, the RBPC supports the creation of new startup companies and brings together business and engineering students from the world’

Link: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/may/t3d-startup-rice-051012.html

Author: Ilya Pozin

Source: Forbes

Interest: For lots of startup founders, a big money valuation is just half the goal. Many startups are motivated by a singular drive to change the way we view and interact with the world around us. And while every startup can teach us something, the most disruptive often have the most profound lessons. Here are 10 of today’s most visionary startups to admire, and more importantly, model:

Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyapozin/2012/05/09/10-startups-changing-the-world-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them/

Author: Arundhati Parmar

Source: MedCity News

Interest: Healthcare venture capitalists are no fans of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the regulatory challenges the agency poses for medical startups and device companies. They blame many of the problems besetting healthcare investing squarely on the agency as delays caused by reviewers push investor pay day further out.

Link: http://medcitynews.com/2012/05/advice-from-a-vc-to-startups-speak-no-evil-about-the-fda/

Author: Julie Andrews

Source: AllFacebook.com

Interest: There’s that elusive Facebook effect, ramping things up again. This time, it’s the economy. It’s unwittingly urging new startups to sprout, just by existing, and by being very well liked by the masses. Geez, we may soon be calling ourselves the innovation nation.

Link: http://allfacebook.com/startup-creation_b88382

Author: Jon Campbell

Source: Poughkeepsie Journal

Interest: President Barack Obama touted the upstate economy in a speech at the University at Albany on Tuesday, saying the work at the school’s nanocenter should be a model for the rest of the nation. The state has invested heavily in the Albany nanotech complex, as well as a major GlobalFoundries chip plant in Saratoga County.

Link: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120509/NEWS/305090015/Obama-cheers-high-tech-spurring-job-growth-upstate?odyssey=nav|head&nclick_check=1

Author: Raechel Dawson

Source: BellevuePatch

Interest: Just off Bel-Red Road is a small space nestled among printing shops, auto-part dealers and a dance studio. If you look closely you’ll see a sign that says StudentRND. It is here that students create robotics, plasma speakers and iPhone applications. Student Research and Development, more commonly known as StudentRND, is a nonprofit that provides a space for college and high school students to learn, innovate and use normally inaccessible resources.

Link: http://bellevue.patch.com/articles/student-rnd-students-create-new-technology-at-bellevue-nonprofit-lab

Author: NCET2

Source: Research Commercialization and SBIR Center

Interest: Starts on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 8:00 to 9:30pm ET This course will provide you with comprehensive and practical steps to converting your research project into a commercial product. This course is based upon practical lessons from the presenter’s 28 years of real life experiences as founder or co-founder of five start-up companies, one of which was taken public through an IPO.

Link: http://center.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_joomla_lms&Itemid=53&task=details_course&id=70

Author: Julia Jacobson

Source: The Badger Herald

Interest: Most University of Wisconsin students view education as their ticket into the job market, with a career beginning just after they obtain their degree. But others are choosing to get a head-start on life outside of college by taking advantage of opportunities found on campus — by becoming student entrepreneurs.

Link: http://badgerherald.com/news/2012/05/07/programs_foster_entr.php

Author: GRAELYN BRASHEAR

Source: C-Ville.com

Interest: Critical mass. With 35 biotechnology companies currently doing business in the city, members of Charlottesville’s biotech industry say they’ve got it. Two years after the University of Virginia retooled its intellectual property regulations to encourage more researchers to move their ideas to market, biotech is bigger than ever here, and looming large in the financial future of the city and the University.

Link: http://www.c-ville.com/Article/Features/Biotech_U_Marrying_academia_and_industry_in_Charlottesville/?z_Issue_ID=11800705123312771