UniBloom, a concept for a mobile app that uses games and contests to promote improved health and fitness in the workplace, won top prize at the seventh annual Startup Weekend Bloomington event held at IU’s Cyberinfrastructure Building. Team members Joshua Hobbs, Mark Meyer-Malia and Roy Solomma earned several prizes that include a fall 2017 spot… Read more »
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PROFILE: DinnerCall mobile app, developed with backing from Innovate Indiana Fund, stands poised to place supermarkets on equal ground with fast food chains and restaurants
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — To see the business opportunity that Indiana University startup professor Gerry Hays seeks to capitalize on, just take a short stroll in your local grocer’s deli – say around 8 or 9 p.m. Slide past the bananas, the tomatoes, the shrink-wrapped potatoes – and saunter up close to the main counter where… Read more »
Three days of innovation set for CIB as Startup Weekend begins Friday
The Cyberinfrastructure Building at IU Bloomington will serve as center stage for three days of concepts, creativity — and quite possibly the seeds of a new startup company — as Startup Weekend starts at 6:30 p.m. Friday and runs until 9 p.m. Sunday. Innovate Indiana serves as a signature sponsor for the 54-hour event, which… Read more »
Gard, Armstrong to play key roles in upcoming economic engagement session at APLU annual meeting
Technology transfer is no longer the sole focus of a university’s economic development strategy. These days, institutions of higher learning are placing a similar emphasis on improving the technical talents of their graduates to meet the needs of employers and initiatives that improve the surrounding region’s overall quality of place. On… Read more »
Indiana Business Research Center welcomes economic developers, researchers to Innovation 2.0
Sometimes, it’s those who measure innovation who turn out to be innovators themselves. Such is the case with the Indiana Business Research Center and its research tool known as Innovation 2.0. Described as a “portal” to various types and amounts of data collected by federal and state sources, Innovation 2.0 offers insight into a region’s… Read more »
DiMarchi ranked among world’s top 3 translational researchers in biotech
As one of IU’s most prolific inventors, the fact that Richard DiMarchi had 17 patents granted in 2015 alone is not too surprising to those familiar with his scientific and entrepreneurial career, which spans more than three decades. However, the fact that only two researchers in the biotech field worldwide had more in that same… Read more »
NSF grant secured by IU Northwest supports promising STEM students
Students at IU Northwest who show promise in science, technology, engineering or math disciplines are now taking advantage of the university’s NSF-AIMS initiative, which seeks to increase the number of STEM graduates at IU Northwest by 10 percent over the next five years. Producing more STEM graduates is a key concern for Indiana’s economy, as… Read more »
Three IU economic development programs recognized by UEDA during annual summit in Roanoke, Va.
Three IU economic development programs were recognized on Oct. 18 during the University Economic Development Association’s (UEDA) Annual Summit in Roanoke, Va. Among 20 finalists for UEDA’s Awards of Excellence was IU Bloomington, which was selected for its partnership with the Bloomington Economic Development Corp. to launch the B-Start pre-accelerator. B-Start seeks to provide entrepreneurial… Read more »
IU-backed startup appoints Steve Carchedi as new president and CEO
The month of October brought a flurry of events to ApeX Pharmaceuticals, a company co-founded by the IU School of Medicine’s Mark R. Kelley to develop novel compounds for cancer treatment. On Oct. 10, the company announced the appointment of Steve Carchedi as president and CEO. Formerly CEO of Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, a biotech firm that… Read more »
McRobbie emphasizes internships, increased support for local and faculty-based startups during visit to IU South Bend campus
Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie took to the rooftops of South Bend on Wednesday to spread a message he has carried throughout a statewide tour to IU campuses and their host cities throughout the past year. From the top of the city’s former Studebaker Corp. assembly building, which along with Union Station Technology Center… Read more »