Full- and part-time undergraduate, graduate and professional students who are currently enrolled and in good standing at IUPUI or IUPUC are invited to an hourlong workshop to learn about the JagStart pitch competition. JagStart encourages entrepreneurially oriented students to develop their ideas and present them persuasively. During the competition, which will take place in the… Read more »
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Kelley School of Business’ entrepreneurship program, faculty receive international recognition
Congratulations to the Indiana University Kelley School of Business’ entrepreneurship program. U.S. News and World Report ranked it the top program among those offered by public universities, and third overall. It also has been cited in a paper in the Journal of Small Business Management as having the greatest impact on the field. Three Kelley… Read more »
IU launches comprehensive action on addiction, partnering with Gov. Holcomb, IU Health, others
Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie has announced IU’s commitment to invest $50 million to collaborate with community partners to prevent and reduce addictions in Indiana. Announced alongside Indiana Gov. Eric J. Holcomb and IU Health President and CEO Dennis Murphy, the initiative — Responding to the Addictions Crisis — is part of IU’s bicentennial… Read more »
Two IU-based startups named New Venture Competition finalists
Congratulations to Indiana Lysis Technologies and The Bee Corp., two of the five finalists in the sixth annual BioCrossroads New Venture Competition. Indiana Lysis Technologies was founded by Dr. Jeffrey Kline and Nathan Alves, faculty in the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine. Indiana Lysis Technologies is a drug-discovery company that is… Read more »
IU travels to Washington, D.C., to present Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division’s impact on Midwest innovation
On Sept. 27, leaders from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division and other Indiana industry and academic partners traveled to Washington, D.C. They briefed representatives from the Office of the Vice President of the United States and the Office of Science and Technology Policy on the innovation ecosystem NSWC Crane has helped develop in Southern… Read more »
Subir Bandyopadhyay, IU Northwest professor and IU CREED council member, edits book on social media marketing
Congratulations Subir Bandyopadhyay, professor of marketing at Indiana University Northwest and representative on the IU Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development, or CREED. His book “Contemporary Issues in Social Media Marketing” has been published and is now available from Amazon and Routledge Publishing. Bandyopadhyay edited the book with Bikramjit Rishi, associate professor of marketing… Read more »
Congratulations to Menguin, which received support from Innovate Indiana Fund
Menguin, an online suit and tuxedo rental company, has been acquired by Generation Tux for $25 million. Menguin is one of 13 companies in the Innovation Indiana Fund portfolio. According to a news release, Menguin has experienced three years at an 800 percent compound annual growth rate. Menguin and Generation Tux will continue to operate… Read more »
IU researchers awarded $1.4 million grant to promote regional economic development
A two-year project called Regional Economic Development has received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The project will apply advanced data analytics to promote regional economic development and design policies appropriate for a particular region’s characteristics. The project will build a complex computational model that integrates data science and regional economic… Read more »
CREED meeting focused on Public Policy Institute, Manufacturing Policy Initiative and School of Public Health
The Indiana University Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development, or CREED, held its first meeting of the 2017-18 academic year Sept. 13 on the IUPUI campus. David Gard provided updates from the university, including the opening of the $45 million Arts and Sciences building at IU Northwest; partnerships in the first Internet of Things… Read more »
Salesforce’s chief equality officer to open Economic Club of Indiana’s 2017-18 luncheon speaker series Sept. 14
Tony Prophet, chief equality officer at Salesforce, will speak Thursday, Sept. 14, during The Economic Club of Indiana’s opening luncheon of the 2017-18 season. The luncheon will take place from noon-1:30 p.m. at the Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis. A member of the company’s executive team reporting to Chairman and CEO Marc… Read more »