After seeing a need to develop support infrastructure and resources to assist new companies accelerate and succeed in the community, the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno created a new summer course, Launchpad. Launchpad was designed to help startups with ties to the University accelerate their businesses, while simultaneously providing students with [...]
Novel innovations from inventors around the state of Indiana will be on display at the 2021 Purdue Technology Showcase. This year’s theme is “State of Innovation.” The Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization is hosting the annual showcase, being held virtually this year Feb. 10-11. Registration by Feb. 9 is required to receive the link for joining the showcase. [...]
While there seem to be some people who are natural-born entrepreneurs, most aspects of entrepreneurship can also be learned along the way. Many universities and business schools across Europe are actually offering quite good courses and curriculums on that topic. Below we’re introducing you to the 30 best business schools and universities for entrepreneurship in Europe. The [...]
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UTSA has launched a chapter of Venture Mentor Service San Antonio, designed to match experienced mentors with newly minted business ventures led by the next generation of entrepreneurs in the city. A joint collaboration between UTSA and UT Health SA, VMS-SA is managed by both UTSA’s Office of Commercialization and Innovation and UT Health SA’s Office of [...]
Elizabeth Jaworski, Ph.D., who studied biochemistry and molecular biology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has taken innovation from the lab bench and transformed it into a business. During her doctoral program, she worked with a professor who invented a technology for next-generation sequencing sample processing. Elizabeth Jaworski, Ph.D., TMC Biodesign 2020-2021 Fellow [...]
Western has recruited some of the top PhD graduates, medical students and residents from across the country to be part of the sixth cohort of its Medical Innovation Fellowship (MIF) program. While some adaptations will take place because of COVID-19 restrictions, the program will still be host to all participants on campus over the course of the [...]
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Change is certainly afoot at both Duke University and N.C. State as well as other Triangle institutions as well as at UNC-Chapel Hill. Here’s a look at what’s happening as well as an infographic breaking down related programs. WHAT’S HAPPENING AT DUKE “We have added curricular and extracurricular summer programming to engage [...]
he Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago is expanding the undergraduate track of the nationally ranked Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge startup accelerator program by partnering with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The College New Venture Challenge will now serve the startup track of the University of Illinois’ City Scholars program, giving students [...]
By definition incubators foster growth, and that’s what officials at UC Riverside hope its newest scientific project will do. The school’s Wet Lab Incubator opened its doors to the Inland Empire’s entrepreneurial community at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 21. The 3,000-square-foot facility, the first of its kind in the region, will be available for local [...]