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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
The
pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new
drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific
innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases
long-ignored by drug companies. Many of these so-called orphan drugs
offer extra patent protections and faster government approval.
Jan 26 | News
How can you be sure that an incoming phone call is really from a customer and not an overseas criminal intent on fraud? For major financial services companies, that's a growing concern as the telephone system adopts Internet technologies—and the security issues that come with them. A startup company based on technology developed at Georgia Tech offers a solution to that challenge.
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.
Jan 24 | News
Purdue University President France A Córdova announced the launch of a new research commercialization center that will move Purdue discoveries to the marketplace more quickly, increase revenue for the university, and spur economic development in Indiana and the nation.
Jan 6 | News
Technology developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to specific locations in the eye provides the foundation for a startup company that has received a $4 million venture capital investment.
12/22/2011 | News
Online
search and advertising giant Google is teaming with investment firm
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. to develop four solar energy farms in
the Sacramento, providing electricity to power more than 13,000 U.S.
homes. Google, which earns returns on renewable energy tax credits, says
its promoting the availability of green energy for its power-energy
servers farms.
12/13/2011 | News
The
Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology
Transfer programs were both set to expire on Dec. 16, 2011. But on
Monday evening, Congress successfully negotiated a long-term
reauthorization.
10/19/2011 | News
According
to a study out Wednesday venture capitalists invested more money in
more U.S. startups in the third quarter than they did a year earlier.
Though overall investments dropped from the second quarter, the software
industry showed especially big jumps in venture capital quarter to
quarter.
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.
