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University of Maine and Foster Center for Student Innovation have recently opened registration for INV 510: Innovation Engineering Accelerated course which is being offered during this upcoming fall semester. This course is open to all community members who have an undergraduate degree and current UMaine seniors and graduate students.
INV 510 is the graduate level introductory course to the fundamentals of Innovation Engineering and is the first step to earning a graduate certificate in Innovation Engineering. Upon completing this course, you will have gained the tools and confidence to lead in the creation, communication, and commercialization/realization of meaningfully unique ideas in any field. You'll learn a systematic approach to creativity, the practices and principles of precise, persuasive concept writing, and key components of commercialization/realization. INV 510 will give you the chance to help real businesses with serious needs. The class will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30-6:00.
Registration Details follow
Newly funded companies create medical innovations, help businesses improve productivity
PHILADELPHIA, PA (www.sep.benfranklin.org) – Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP) recently approved investments totaling $1,800,000 for nine early-stage Pennsylvania companies with promising technology innovations. Included in this is a $500,000 investment in Molecular Detection Inc. (MDI). MDI developed a quick method to detect drug resistant Staph infections. Investment details follow.
Ann Arbor SPARK has just released an update of available resources available
Are you interested in having a team of MBA students work on a problem for you during the fall? Each year, they accept proposals from sponsors looking to solve problems, identify new processes, or target opportunities for growth. Successful proposals:
- Address a real challenge or opportunity that has no existing obvious solution;
- Demand a set of actionable recommendations;
- Are important to the company and have strong support from senior-level management;
- Require a multidisciplinary approach; and
- May be completed in 14 weeks.
Simatra Technologies releases a new biophysical modeling and simulation tool
Georgia Tech spinout and ATDC member company Simatra Technologies has released version 1.1 of their simEngine compiler for biophysical modeling and simulation. The update to the system features improved performance on single- and multi-core processors, as well as the ability to seamlessly leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) for dramatically improved simulation speeds.
Simatra recently demonstrated how simEngine’s GPU computing features can be used to dramatically accelerate the simulation of a model of brain stimulation; in their example, a $500 off-the-shelf GPU card was used to achieve a 77x performance improvement over a single-core processor. Companies and researchers with a need for high-performance nonlinear simulation can now obtain it at a very low cost, and Simatra’s intuitive software can reduce the programming time from months to days.
Simatra makes math fast!
Source: ATDC
Are you creative and love coming up with NEW ideas?
are you adventurous and love trying NEW things?
...then this camp is for you!
July 26 - 30, 2010
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Grades 3 - 8
Campers will spend half the day innovating...
- coming up with a new kind of snack food
- running a lemonade stand
- designing a t-shirt
- creating a new board game
And half the day on an adventure...
- canoeing the Stillwater River
- climbing the rock wall
- tackling the ropes course
- swimming at the Rec Center
$220 includes all lunches
Council will advise the president on ways to foster entrepreneurship and transform laboratory ideas into new businesses and jobs
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the members of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a group that will support President Obama's innovation strategy by helping to develop policies that foster entrepreneurship and identifying new ways to take great ideas from the lab to the marketplace to drive economic growth and create jobs. Locke made the announcement at a U.S. Department of Commerce University Innovation Forum at the University of Michigan, where participants discussed the role of universities in innovation, economic development, job creation and commercialization of federally funded research.
The National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship will help build on this aggressive agenda. Members of the council include serial entrepreneurs, university presidents, investors and non-profit leaders. Steve Case, Mary Sue Coleman, and Desh Deshpande will serve as Co-Chairs. See the full list of council members below.
Tucson 12 brings you The UPSIDE, a web-based video series with one main mission... to tell the stories of people who are working to make Tucson a great city.
Great Video of the UA Tech Park
Thanks, Jessa
http://www.uatechpark.org/
Firms Offer EBC Companies Access to Leading Design Software to Speed Time to Market for Clean Energy and Environmental Technologies
SAN JOSE and SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 13, 2010 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and the Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) have forged an industry partnership to offer benefits of the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program to the EBC community so companies can innovate and commercialize their ideas more quickly.
EBC is an award-winning clean tech incubator in Silicon Valley that provides commercialization support and facilities for emerging clean energy and environmental technology companies. The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program provides Digital Prototyping software to clean technology companies to enable them to digitally design, visualize and simulate the real-world performance of products before they are built. Creation of digital prototypes can serve as a catalyst to help participants secure financing and effectively market their ideas.
Participation comes from academic institutions and companies across the state
Waltham, Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s 2010 Internship Challenge has received an overwhelming response since its February launch, with nearly 900 applicants seeking internships this summer. Over 130 companies from all sectors of the life sciences community have combed through hundreds of resumes, held numerous interviews, and selected interns to hire. Through the Challenge, 164 interns have been matched with 93 life sciences companies, a more than 50% increase from the 104 interns selected in 2009.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center’s Internship Challenge is a workforce development program focused on enhancing the talent pipeline for life sciences companies in Massachusetts while providing interns with practical, “hands on” experience that prepares them to step into the workforce ready to meet the job requirements of life sciences employers. The program is providing paid summer internships to undergraduates, graduate students, and recent college graduates from 46 different colleges and universities.
B-Bridge now distributes SCIVAX NanoCulture Plates that enable you to do 3D cell culture using conventional 2D cell culture techniques. The precise nanogrid etched on the bottom of each well promotes cell migration, aggregation, and three-dimensional assembly as spheroids with most cell lines and primary tumor cells. No gels, matrices, or other scaffolds are needed.
The specific spheroid morphology is cell line specific ranging from round dense spheres covered with extracellular matrix to spheroids with glandular structure. The morphology of the spheroids often resembles the morphology of an in vivo tumor with hollow regions and tubules. NanoCulture Plates provide an easy and robust approach to culture virtually any primary tumor.
B-Bridge is also happy to offer Gene Bridges Red/ET Recombineering Technology. Red/ET allows unlimited cloning, subcloning, and modification of DNA at any chosen position. It permits precise engineering of DNA molecules of any size, including very large ones such as BACs or the E.coli chromosome.
