Tag: entrepreneurs
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University, Startup Develop Low-Power, High-Impact Display
A collaboration between University of Cincinnati’s (UC’s) Novel Devices Laboratory, and startup company Gamma Dynamics LLC, also in Cincinnati, Ohio have created an electrofluidic display that provides a full color, high-impact image at a fraction of the power needed for current color hand-held and tablet devices. Electrofluidic displays use colored liquids to display the various…
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Survey: University Startups, Products Keep Pace in 2009
The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the association of institutional technology transfer professionals, released yesterday its 2009 licensing survey, showing the volume of startups and new products last year about the same as in 2008, but the number of new patents filed in the U.S. dropping. AUTM’s survey says personnel at universities, research institutes,…
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Postdocs: Commercialization Important, But for Others
Post-doctoral researchers in the Washington, D.C. area recognize the importance of commercializing research, where scientific results can benefit the local economy, but most postdocs surveyed have little interest in running their own business once their research fellowship ends. That’s the finding of a study published in the current issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based…
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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…
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GPS-Linked Training Shirt Gives Data for Runners
A Spanish company has developed a training shirt fitted with sensors, Bluetooth transmitter, and GPS receiver to provide runners with real-time data on their performance and route, either in training or competition. The company, emxys, is a startup enterprise in Alicante, Spain, but also taking part in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Business Incubation Centre…
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Startups License Academic Research to Combat Counterfeiting
Two startup companies completed exclusive license agreements with University of Arkansas – Little Rock (UALR) to bring to market technology developed by UALR’s Nanotechnology Center that offers anti-counterfeiting solutions for manufacturers. UALR says the technology will enable companies and government agencies to authenticate items with an invisible and unique code that is virtually impossible to…
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Kauffman Awards $500K Grant for More Women-Owned Startups
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri announced today a $500,000 grant to Astia, a business accelerator in San Francisco, California that works with women-led startups, to encourage the formation of more high-growth entrepreneurial companies owned by women. The organizations note that data show women start more than 50 percent of all businesses,…
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Marine Current Meter Helps Fishing Industry, Oceanographers
A University of Rhode Island (URI) oceanographer in Narrangansett has developed an inexpensive meter for measuring currents near the bottom of bays, rivers and other shallow waters that is helping lobster and oyster producers, as well as other oceanographers, do their work. Vitalii Sheremet, associate marine research scientist at URI, used his expertise about currents,…
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council to Hold First Meeting (Updated)
Xconomy is reporting that the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship will hold its first meeting today in Washington, DC. The group, formed in July, will advise the executive branch on new policies “that foster entrepreneurship and identifying new ways to take great ideas from the lab to the marketplace to drive economic growth…
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Awards to Honor Postdoc Entrepreneurs
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) have opened the call for nominations for the 2011 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs working to commercialize research. The deadline for nominations for both awards is 27 September 2010, and the deadline for submission of…