By David Gard The Fall 2010 issue of the Indiana Business Review has been recently released and is now available for download. A quarterly publication of the Indiana Business Research Center at IU’s Kelley School of Business, the IBR provides analysis and insight on key economic and demongraphic issues. Particular articles of interest in the latest… Read more »
Economic Development
Water Company Becomes IURTC Affiliate – Newsroom – Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
By Tony Armstrong Very glad to have them affiliated with the IU Emerging Tehnologies Center! Read it here
President’s Economic Development Cabinet
By Bill Stephan The President’s Economic Development Cabinet, a 15-member group of distinguished business, community and faculty leaders with a broad range of experiences and knowledge in the technology and life-sciences sectors, was established to serve as economic development advisors to Indiana University President Michael McRobbie. The Cabinet meets three times a year to provide policy input and… Read more »
What do IU and the Military have in common?
By Kirk White IU has forged partnerships with the Indiana National Guard (ING) on their efforts at the Guard’s Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations (CAMCCO) to brief and train personnel deploying to Afghanistan on issues related to language, cultural sensitivity, and governance. The Guard has been entrusted with the responsibility of developing and providing… Read more »
Measuring Economic Development Without Depending on Jobs
By David Gard A recent article from Governing poses an interesting question: “can you have economic development without job growth?” At the end of the day, economic development is always about jobs. But, as the article asserts, the strategy implemented to secure new jobs may need to be about something else. Thus, if new jobs… Read more »
Interview with Bill Stephan on New Bloomington Tech Corridor
By Tony Armstrong IU Vice President Bill Stephan, Bart Peterson from Eli Lilly and other community and business leaders joined us at the IUIC in Bloomington for a robust discussion on the Life Sciences sector in Indiana. Bill was interviewed immediately after the panel discussion. We could not be more enthused about the prospects for… Read more »
Are Universities Underestimating the Economic Impact of Academic Research?
IU researchers David B. Audretsch and Taylor Aldridge argue that universities are underestimating the number of start-up companies that have formed to market university research by as much as 30 percent. Professor Audretsch, a distinguished professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Bloomington and director of the Institute for… Read more »
Four IU Start-Up Companies Named as Success Stories by the Science Coalition
Congratulations to IURTC clients CS-Keys, Fast Diagnostics, Immuneworks, and Therametric Technologies. All were listed among 100 federal funding success stories by the Science Coalition, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group that supports federal funding of scientific research in the United States. The report underlines the vital connection between university research, investment, and economic development. The 100… Read more »
What Executives Make of Innovation – BusinessWeek
By Bill Stephan A Business Week article I thought you might enjoy. As executives breathe out after surviving the Great Recession, they find they’re gazing on a New Reality. The meltdown accelerated many trends that had been merely budding pre-crisis. There has been no time for slow and steady adaptation to the pressures and challenges of… Read more »
The “Proof-of-Concept Center”: A Good Idea, But Not a New One
By Tony Armstrong The New York Times has discovered something that IU officials have known for years—that business innovation is, can, and should be driven by university research. In The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus, Bob Tedeschi describes the “proof-of-concept center” as a new model for commercializing research discoveries. At first glance, the centers look… Read more »