Science and Enterprise

Category: Joint ventures/collaborations

  • External Combusion Engine Tests Burning Oil from BP Spill

    Cyclone Power Technologies Inc. of Pompano Beach, Florida reports it has performed combustion acceptability tests of crude oil recovered from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with its heat-regenerative external combustion engine. The Cyclone engine burns its fuel in an external combustion chamber, with heat from this process used to turn water…

  • Cord Blood Stem Cell Research Center Opens in Arizona

    A partnership between the Celebration Stem Cell Centre and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center — both in Gilbert, Arizona — has created a facility for cord blood stem cell research, processing, and storage. Gilbert is about 17 miles southeast of Phoenix. Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, with several other Phoenix-area hospitals, and hospitals in the Catholic Healthcare…

  • Cornell, Nanotech Company to Develop Self-Charging Batteries

    To meet an expanding demand for autonomous power for wireless sensors, MicroGen Systems LLC, of Ithaca, New York and Cornell University’s Energy Materials Center (emc2) have agreed to develop self-charging batteries that use background vibrations for their energy source. The battery, say the partners, will look like a microchip, but with a vibrating core, which…

  • Canadian Joint Venture to Produce Nanotech Fibers

    Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced a new joint venture to build a commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant. During its pilot phase, the plant, located at Domtar’s Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site, will produce one metric ton of the material per day. Nanocrystalline cellulose is an abundant nanomaterial made of cellulose fibers from…

  • Academic-Business Partnership Proposals Sought by NSF

    National Science Foundation (NSF) wants innovative ideas on energy, sustainability, and the education of next generation entrepreneurs from small business and academic institutions, and is prepared to pay $7 million for those ideas. This NSF program, called Partnerships for Innovation, aims to produce academic scientists better able to adapt their findings to practical applications and…

  • Biotech-Manufacturing Partnership to Open Biodiesel Pilot Plant

    Novozymes, a Danish maker of industrial enzymes, and Piedmont Biofuels, a biofuels manufacturer and coop in Pittsboro, North Carolina, will unveil tomorrow a new pilot plant demonstrating improved process for the production of biodiesel. The companies say this is the first pilot plant of its kind in the United States and uses a new method…

  • Algae Biofuels Project Advances from Lab to Greenhouse

    The oil and gas company Exxon Mobil Corporation and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI) opened today a greenhouse to provide more real-life conditions in their algae biofuels program. The facility is located on the SGI campus in La Jolla, California. SGI specializes in commercial applications of genomic research. SGI and Exxon Mobil researchers are using the…

  • Partnership to Develop Psychiatric Treatments

    Aestus Therapeutics in North Brunswick, New Jersey) and Eisai Inc. in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey will collaborate on research and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The collaboration will cover pre-clinical validation of potential therapeutics leading to clinical proof-of-concept studies. Aestus says it has previously identified products with the potential to…

  • GE Leads $200 Million Smart Grid Challenge

    GE and four venture capital companies unveiled a $200 million innovation challenge for ideas to improve and accelerate a smarter and more efficient electrical grid. The challenge is open to ideas from individuals or teams in business or other sectors. The ideas sought from challenge participants cover three broad themes … Renewable energy Grid efficiency…

  • New Service Connects Investigators with Clinical Trial Sponsors

    CenterWatch in Boston, Massachusetts today unveiled a new service to help pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) find and engage investigative sites worldwide to conduct phase I through IV clinical trials. Sponsors of clinical research have become more interested in recruiting investigators from more locations around the world. At the same time, says CenterWatch…