Indiana University’s top research post will soon have a new leader as Fred H. Cate, an IU Distinguished Professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, has been named vice president for research. Cate, one of the world’s leading experts on privacy and security issues, will serve a two-year term and replaces Jorge José, who… Read more »
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IURTC Spin Up companies, along with startups supported by the Innovate Indiana Fund, show their stuff at Innovation Showcase 2015
About a half-dozen companies with Indiana University ties took advantage of the opportunities afforded by the state’s largest exposition for startups — Innovation Showcase 2015 — which was held July 9 at Speedway’s Dallara IndyCar Factory and was sponsored in part by Innovate Indiana. As company representatives spent the day meeting with potential investors, making… Read more »
IU study finds that academia, compared to other sectors, has generated largest increase in women-filed patents since the mid-1970s
A recently published study by an Indiana University scholar found that since 1976, the number of women who have filed patents with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office has risen faster within academia as opposed to other economic sectors such as industry, government and individual inventors. The analysis, led by associate professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto… Read more »
Startups from Spin Up program, Innovate Indiana Fund among 74 companies on exhibit July 9 during Innovation Showcase 2015
The year’s largest expo for Indiana startups — Innovation Showcase 2015 — is set for Thursday, July 9, at Speedway’s Dallara IndyCar Factory and has 74 companies lined up. At least a half-dozen have substantial ties to Indiana University, with five being products of the Spin Up program offered by the Indiana University Research and… Read more »
Summer Scholars Institute now in ninth year at IU's Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses
As the need to add more STEM-educated (science, technology, engineering, math) Hoosiers to the state’s workforce gains more and more attention, it seems only appropriate that the Big Ten Network would call attention to IU’s Summer Scholars Institute, an initiative founded by former university President Adam Herbert in 2007. The Institute is an eight-week program… Read more »
BEDC offers pre-accelerator program for IU-B, Ivy Tech students with tech business ideas
For students at Indiana University Bloomington and Ivy Tech Community College Bloomington who have an idea for a technology-related business — and want to take it to the next level — there is now B-Start. Launched by the Bloomington Economic Development Corp. and supported in part by Innovate Indiana, it involves a four-week program in… Read more »
Week of June 14-20 will mark the inaugural celebration of Indiana Entrepreneurship Week
June 14-20 marks a statewide acknowledgement of Hoosier ingenuity known as Indiana Entrepreneurship Week. Established by the state’s Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, this event is the first of its kind in Indiana. It showcases top entrepreneurial talent, promotes entrepreneurship as a profession and educates small business owners on related issues. “The inaugural Entrepreneurship… Read more »
Indiana CTSI launches new initiatives, grows project development team with $5 million from Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Five million dollars awarded to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. will be used to launch a molecular therapeutics program, a program that connects industry mentors to entrepreneur researchers and create an academic research commercialization hub for Indiana. Some of the money also will be used to… Read more »
CREED council member Subir Bandyopadhyay wins IU's Lieber Memorial Award for teaching
At an April ceremony in Bloomington, Subir Bandyopadhyay, a member of Indiana University’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED) and professor of marketing at IU Northwest in Gary, received IU’s oldest honor for teaching — the Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award. Bandyopadhyay was one of 16 faculty members and three graduate students who… Read more »
IU-funded manufacturer of metal 3-D printers completes $5.75 million seed funding round
The Innovate Indiana Fund and GE Ventures were among investors who recently contributed $5.75 million in seed funds to San Francisco-based MatterFab, which aims to use the money to develop an affordable metal 3-D printer. As commercial demand increases for 3-D printers, the traditional price for such a device is often in excess of $1… Read more »