The Office of the Vice President for Engagement was pleased to have the opportunity to recently host the State of Indiana’s two leading economic development officials on the IU Bloomington campus. Indiana Secretary of Commerce Victor Smith and Indiana Economic Development Corporation President Eric Doden visited the IU Technology Park and toured the start-of-the-art Cyberinfrastructure… Read more »
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IU Kelley School's Leading Index for Indiana 'ambivalent' in September but edged up slightly
The Leading Index for Indiana (LII), defying the generally poor economic news, edged up slightly in September, moving from 99.5 in August to 99.7 this month. The LII, developed by the Indiana Business Research Center, is designed to reflect the unique structure of the Indiana economy. It is a predictive tool that signals changes in the direction of… Read more »
Recession and competition are changing Indiana’s social assistance nonprofits, IU report shows
Indiana nonprofit social assistance agencies are feeling the effects of the Great Recession and the increased competition from for-profit firms, a new report from Indiana University shows. Employment in Indiana’s social assistance industry grew almost every year from 1995 to 2009, even during recessions in the early 2000s and the Great Recession that began in… Read more »
Cash awards offered for innovators at IU's School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University will collaborate with Schurz Communications, an Indiana-based multimedia company, on an innovation challenge beginning this semester. Hoosier undergraduates, graduate students and faculty will be asked to consider real-world digital solutions and opportunities for 21st-century media companies. There will be sizable cash prizes for winning prototypes that meet agreed guidelines. Beyond money and resume enhancement, participating… Read more »
Hoosier Healthcare Innovation Challenge conference – July 13
The Hoosier Healthcare Innovation Challenge will be from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday, July 13, at the IU School of Informatics at IUPUI. This event will bring together leaders from Indiana’s healthcare, technology and entrepreneurial communities to foster cross-sector collaborations aimed at improving patient care, reducing healthcare costs and continuing to establish Indiana as… Read more »
Informatics team lands $1.85 million from Intel to study IT as social, cultural phenomena
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 »
CourseNetworking Launches
I’m happy to announce that the CourseNetworking social media site went live yesterday. Also known as theCN, it’s a great open source learning platform that will help teachers and students connect. The IURTC works closely with theCN founder Dr. Ali Jafari, a serial entrepreneur who has been very successful taking his innovations from idea to… Read more »
Introducing IU researchers to the idea marketplace
The IU Research and Technology Corp. is ramping up efforts to introduce IU research faculty to the process of patenting and commercializing their novel ideas. Coming up on March 8 on the IUPUI campus, Joe Trebley, director of Startup Support and Promotion at the IURTC, will be speaking on the topic. He’ll outline the steps involved in… 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 »
The Indiana CTSI boosts health science innovations
Hoosiers are catching on: Indiana is becoming a hotbed of health science innovations. A big reason is the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, or Indiana CTSI. This bench-to-bedside research group includes scientists from IU, Notre Dame, and Purdue as well as from companies such as the Cook Group and Eli Lilly. The CTSI provides… Read more »