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Four accelerators are driving the Long-Range Vision goal of moving knowledge gained at Stanford into policies, technologies, medicines and best practices that are implemented in the world – Stanford Impact Labs, Innovative Medicines Accelerator, Transforming Learning Accelerator and the proposed Sustainability Accelerator. Stanford’s Long-Range Vision lays out the future direction for the university’s research, education and impact. Read our updates about those initiatives and their progress. [...]

In research and development, there is a place known as the Valley of Death – it’s the gap between applied research and viable products. To help bridge this gap so that powerful, useful research can make an impact on the market and improve quality of life, Auburn University’s Office of the Vice President for Research and [...]

The University Technology Licensing Program (UTLP) received approval from the US Department of Justice on 13 January. The UTLP forms a pool of intellectual property and scientific patents from the US’s leading institutions and aims to encourage licensing deals between these universities and Pharma companies for the commercialisation of the universities’ emerging technologies. The program [...]

Normally, when you hear about innovation in R&D, the focus is on the “R” and not the “D.” There’s a tendency to assume that lab-based scientists do the really creative research, whereas clinical development is a fairly straightforward, check-the-boxes activity. There’s a kernel of truth in this otherwise unfair assumption. Just as the basic design [...]

The program gives discoveries an extra push through the development pipeline to bring technologies to the stage where they are ready for further investment, from either a startup or a larger company. “Princeton researchers work at the leading edge of discovery, forging new directions by pursuing original ideas,” said John Ritter, director of the Office of Technology [...]

Applications for a new virtual fellowship that supports underrepresented talent will be open later this month. Founded in December 2020, Visible Hands is a 14-week program that provides funding, company-building services and an ecosystem of industry experts to people whose gender or racial identity is severely underrepresented in the tech industry. According to the program's website, [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The ways in which student engagement initiatives have changed as a result of the remote learning environment and the lessons learned that can be leveraged for future out-of-classroom experiences were discussed during the Board of Trustees Committee meeting on Outreach, Development and Community Relations today (Feb. 18). Administrators from the Penn [...]

The world’s first venture capital fund to use conservation technologies from Oxford University was announced Tuesday by venture capital firm Global Accelerated Ventures (GAV) and Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialization arm of the school. The Oxford GAV Conservation Venture Studio (OXGAV) has funding from a $25 million special purpose investment vehicle (SPV). The [...]

The transatlantic, not-for-profit medical accelerator, Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) at University Hospitals, has collaborated with leading venture investor, Advent Life Sciences ('Advent') in the launch of the Advent-Harrington Impact Fund. Advent's new impact fund, structured alongside Advent Life Sciences Fund III, brings a total of $215 million to advance breakthrough discoveries into novel treatments for the benefit [...]