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Feb 15 | Featured Articles
The general rule of thumb is that most new businesses fail. But the
incubator model is beginning to change those statistics for companies
who seek the right kind of help.
Jan 26 | News
As the United States seeks to reinvigorate its job market and move past economic recession, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examines manufacturing's role in America's economic future through work at the institute around manufacturing.
10/18/2011 | News
The European Union Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, published annually by the European Commission, tracks the world’s top 1,400 companies and ranks their investments in R&D. The report shows global R&D investment increased by 4%, but some regions are lagging behind others in investment growth.
11/16/2010 | News
As
of March 7, 2011, Macron Chemicals will be the new brand name for
Avantor Performance Materials’ Mallinckrodt Chemicals brand. The change
follows the acquisition earlier this year of Avantor (formerly
Mallinckrodt Baker) from Covidien by New Mountain Capital. Product
functionality is anticipated to be unchanged.
11/4/2010 | News
Booz
& Company this week released its Global Innovation 1000 Study,
which details the first global corporate R&D spending drop since
before 1997, the first year studied. However, R&D intensity
increased as corporate revenues declined by nearly three times the rate
of reductions in R&D spending.
2/2/2010 | News
Y-Carbon Inc., the winner of a 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Tunable Nanoporous Carbon, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation SBIR phase I grant in the amount of $150,000 for scaling up production of its carbon nanomaterials. Y-Carbon, Inc. will occupy a new 2,000 square foot facility in Bristol, UK for its pilot plant. In the past two years, Y-Carbon has successfully transitioned from producing milligram quantities using methods developed at a Drexel University lab to manufacturing tens and hundreds of grams of material without performance degradation.
7/30/2009 | News
At Microsoft's research center in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling headquarters in Seattle.
