Efforts to launch an engineering program on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus recently were approved by IU’s Board of Trustees during its most recent meeting — a move that now places the program before the Indiana Commission for Higher Education for consideration. The program will be housed with the… Read more »
Year: 2015
FundSponge and Merchant's Garden share $200,000 as co-winners of BEST competition
FundSponge, a company that helps small nonprofit organizations raise money as people shop online, and Merchant’s Garden, a model for bringing environmentally friendly, out-of-season produce to restaurants, groceries and homes in urban environments, are co-winners of IU Bloomington’s 2015 BEST competition. BEST is the world’s largest investment competition offered by a university to its students,… Read more »
Team presentations for IUPUI's Innovation-to-Enterprise program scheduled for Friday
Final team presentations for five student projects within IUPUI’s Innovation-to-Enterprise Commercialization (ITEC) program will take place Friday (April 24) in Room 3009 of the Business/School of Public and Environmental Affairs Building at 801 W. Michigan St. in Indianapolis. Created in 2011, ITEC is a student-centered, multidisciplinary, active-learning initiative that that combines research, entrepreneurial and business… Read more »
PrecisionHawk, NASA collaborate to develop air traffic control system for UAV operations
PrecisionHawk, an IU-funded venture that deploys unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to collect and analyze data for various commercial users, recently announced it is working with NASA to develop a traffic management system for such aircraft. Earlier this year, the company — which maintains part of its workforce in Noblesville and counts the Innovate Indiana Fund… Read more »
IU-funded app maker Haven introduces home maintenance assistant on Apple's iTunes store
Haven, an IU-funded developer of a mobile and Web application that helps homeowners maintain their property, launched its product Wednesday on Apple’s iTunes for iPhone users in the Indianapolis market. The tool uses a personalized, intuitive reminder and tracking system that alerts users to potential home maintenance issues before they occur — such as changing… Read more »
American manufacturing struggles are the focus of a new SPEA public policy initiative
Why has the United States lost much of its manufacturing base? What public policy and private sector steps would help industry? Why are some areas of U.S. manufacturing thriving, are others are in decline? These questions are the focus of a new public policy effort launched by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, with… Read more »
Indiana app for natural disasters, emergencies tops Texas entry to win Hackathon challenge
Red Alert Indiana, the father-son team of John and Isaiah Schevola, was recently named grand champion of the Indiana vs. Texas Challenge, a “hackathon” that challenged students, faculty, industry professionals, entrepreneurs or talented citizens in both states to develop applications for public agencies that can benefit the public-at-large. Organized by the Indy Chamber and TechPoint… Read more »
Co-developers of Ebola drug ZMapp, IU-based treatment for PTSD among speakers at JCEB's first Innovation Conference at IU-Bloomington
The Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology’s inaugural Innovation Conference at IU-Bloomington is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., April 24 in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. It will feature speakers who cover topics related to commercializing academic research, including how to launch a business through IU’s Spin Up program. Additional topics… Read more »
The Combine churns into Bloomington once again to harvest innovation, entrepreneurship
Hundreds of inventors, investors and other creative types will converge on the Bloomington Convention Center on April 8-10 for The Combine, an annual conference where coders, creators and culture meet capital and decide to start a company. At least, that’s the idea. Throughout the past five years, The Combine — sponsored in part by Innovate… Read more »
IU-licensed drug for fragile X syndrome to be developed, marketed for Europe, Middle East
Indianapolis–based Confluence Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Vienna-based AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG have reached an agreement to co-develop and market an Indiana University-licensed drug throughout Europe and the Middle East to combat the most commonly known genetic cause of autism. There are currently no approved treatments for the social and communicative impairments that accompany fragile X syndrome,… Read more »