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 »
Year: 2017
Approaching the Summit: Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, TAI Diagnostics and Ariosa Diagnostics
Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, co-founder of biotechnology companies TAI Diagnostics and Ariosa Diagnostics, will be a keynote speaker at the Oct. 5 Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Summit on the IUPUI campus. The event will start 8:30 a.m. at Hine Hall Auditorium, 875 W. North St. Tomita-Mitchell is a professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic… Read more »
Approaching the Summit: Jesus Soriano, National Science Foundation
Jesus Soriano, program director at the National Science Foundation, will be a keynote speaker at the Oct. 5 Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Summit on the IUPUI campus. It will start at 8:30 a.m. in Hine Hall Auditorium, 875 W. North St. The event is open to the public, although registration is required. Women and underrepresented minorities… 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 »
Congratulations to Allinaire Therapeutics, which licenses IP developed at the IU School of Medicine
Allinaire Therapeutics has received $1.9 million in federal grants to support the development of treatments for lung diseases, including acute lung injury; Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency; and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. The company received a $1.67 million Phase II SBIR grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and a $213,000 Discovery Award… 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 »
B-Start pre-accelerator program to accept applications from entrepreneurs in high-growth startups through Sept. 22
Entrepreneurs who live in Bloomington, including Indiana University students, faculty and staff, are encouraged to apply for the five-month B-Start pre-accelerator program, which provides business development workshops, consultations with local experts and a pitch competition. The deadline to apply is Sept. 22. B-Start has graduated 18 companies through the program since it launched as an… Read more »