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 »
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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 »
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 »
How do you create an Innovation Economy? Find out here.
By Tony Armstrong Ask the average citizen about Silicon Valley, and they’ll probably reference Apple, Google, or Xerox. Ask them about the Hoosier State, and they will likely mention John Mellencamp, the Indy 500, and basketball. It’s a perception problem, but it’s also an opportunity. Indiana University researchers have been quietly forging scientific and technological… Read more »