Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • Commerce Dept. Makes Science-Tech Commercialization Awards

    Six U.S. technology R&D organizations are the winners of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s i6 Challenge, a competition of ideas for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.  Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced the winners today at an event on regional innovation clusters co-hosted by The Brookings Institution. The i6 Challenge identifies the nation’s best ideas for technology…

  • Partnership to Develop Sensors for Wound Infections

    ECI Biotech, a developer of diagnostic sensors in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Systagenix, a medical device company specializing in wound care solutions based in the U.K., have agreed to produce sensors to improve the diagnosis and treatment of chronic wound infections. The agreement covers licensing and manufacturing of diagnostic wound sensors, which ECI Biotech says will…

  • Rawlings, Cleveland Clinic to Research Sports Concussions

    Rawlings, a sporting goods manufacturer in St. Louis, Missouri says it has joined with the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute in Cleveland, Ohio in an interdisciplinary research collaboration to study the causes of concussions along with other sports-related head and neck injuries. Cleveland Clinic’s Spine Research Laboratory will conduct independent testing using research equipment manufactured and…

  • Researchers Getting Genetic Help for Biofuel Production

    Researchers from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Cargill are examining genetic materials from a cow’s digestive system to help break down plant fibers for conversion into biofuel. To convert corn stover and switchgrass into biofuel, the plant fibers must first be broken down into sugars. But cell wall polymers are cross-linked in various ways that…

  • Intel, Irish Research Institute to Collaborate on Electronics

    Intel Corporation and Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland have signed a research collaboration covering several fields related to electronics. The agreement also provides Intel with a license to commercially develop technology created through the collaboration with Tyndall. Under the agreement researchers from Tyndall and Intel will investigate new materials, devices, and photonics technologies that…

  • ABB, GM to Research Spent Car Batteries for Grid Storage

    ABB, a developer of power and automation technologies in Cary, North Carolina, and General Motors will collaborate in a research and development project focused on uses for electric vehicle batteries once their useful life in the vehicle is over. The project will examine the reuse of spent lithium-ion battery packs from GM’s Chevy Volt, as…

  • Chinese Solar Company, NREL Sign R&D Agreement

    LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of solar wafers and photovoltaic products in Xinyu City, China and Sunnyvale, California, says it signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for collaborative research and development activities on silicon materials and photovoltaic devices. Under the agreement, the LDK Solar…

  • Dow, Wageningen to Collaborate on Potato Genome

    Dow AgroSciences, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Plant Sciences Group of Wageningen UR (University and Research Center) in Wageningen, the Netherlands agreed to study how a technology developed by Dow can improve the starch quality of potatoes, a food and industrial crop. Dow’s process, called EXZACT Precision Technology, provides…

  • Spanish-French Team Tops Wine Bottles with New Composite

    The Spanish research institute Tecnalia, in Bizkaia (Vizcaya), has developed a new material to replace plastic and cork as stoppers for wine bottles. The project developing this new composite, called PLACOTOP, includes the companies Plásticos Urteta in Spain and Rescoll-Societé de Recherche in France, and is funded in part by the European Commission. Plastic stoppers…

  • Water Blade Technology Developed to Disable IEDs

    A device developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel that helps American troops in Afghanistan disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Sandia licensed the technology to TEAM Technologies Inc., also in Albuquerque. The company made its first shipment of some 3,000 new water…