Congratulations to the research group at Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing upon receiving over $1.85 million to create the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing. The award was announced June 26 by Intel Labs as part of a $12 million research center composed of faculty from IU and four other universities. Three researchers from the IU… Read more »
Tag: Higher Education and Innovation
Technology, traditional arts will converge at IU's Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit
Cutting-edge technology and traditional arts will converge when Indiana University takes part in the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., held June 27 to July 1 and July 4 to 8. Hosted outdoors on the National Mall, the annual festival is an exposition of living cultural heritage. One of this year’s programs, “Campus and Community,” commemorates the 150th… Read more »
Indiana CTSI and IURTC-supported Projects Series: Part 4
Now that I have highlighted three of the twelve research projects that reached the technology transfer phase of their development and filed invention disclosures with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (IURTC), I will wrap up this series of blogs by highlighting one last project. I have enjoyed the opportunity to share a few of the projects that contributed to the Indiana Clinical… Read more »
Business and engineering students partner to bring patented invention to market
Business students at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Indianapolis along with students from the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI are partnering to bring a patented invention to market. Two business students and three biomedical engineering students are joining forces to research how to commercialize a new kidney dialysis invention by IU surgeon George Akingba,… Read more »
Indiana CTSI and IURTC-supported Projects Series: Part 2
As mentioned in the first of the four blogs in this series, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI) set a record last year for supported research projects that have reached the technology transfer phase of their development, including twelve projects that filed invention disclosures with the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. (IURTC). I am highlighting four of… Read more »
IUPUI Professor Ali Jafari and Courseload win 2012 Mira Awards for Technology in Education Excellence
Saturday evening I had the opportunity to attend the 2012 Mira Awards ceremony at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. The Mira Awards are presented by TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, to recognize the state’s high-tech successes. The Mira Awards recognize excellence and innovation among Indiana’s outstanding technology industry performers and contributors, and focus attention on… Read more »
Courseload at the IURTC
Through the IURTC, our Innovate Indiana Fund has invested in Courseload, an e-text delivery platform that allows for reading and annotating textbooks. Courseload is also a tenant in the IU-Emerging Technologies Center and has recently grown into additional space in the IU-ETC. Here’s a brief description from their website: Today’s generation of students has grown… Read more »
Case Studies in Cooperation
By Bill Stephan Read this great article in Site Selection Magazine. University, business, and economic-development teams have a long history of collaboration that ranges from soft investment, such as co-development of curriculum, to hard investment, including construction of commercial research parks. Often these initiatives target start-up companies (spun from technologies developed on campus) and are… Read more »
RealClearPolitics – Learning From Japan’s Mistakes
By Bill Stephan Interesting piece by Robert Samuelson that underscores the importance of establishing polices that support entrepreneurs and new business start-up activities. RealClearPolitics – Learning From Japan’s Mistakes.
Indiana universities nearly double research spending in last 10 year – Indiana Economic Digest – Indiana
By Bill Stephan According to the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ), it became clear to state leaders about 10 years ago—when Indiana was hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs—that universities, not factories, would have to be the engines of the state’s economy going forward. Since then, Indiana’s major research universities—Indiana and Purdue—have nearly doubled their science-based research budgets, to… Read more »