innovation DAILY - Innovation America

$5M fund launched to spur bioscience startups

The city's Economic Development Corp. and the New York City Investment Fund have teamed up on an initiative to fund biomedical research that has advanced beyond academic institutions, but is not yet ...

NIACC Pappajohn Center receives national honor

MASON CITY — National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) and Accelper Consulting awarded the North Iowa Area Community College John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) ...

Business Innovation Center (BIC) showcases Indonesia's Top 100 Innovations

Business innovation has had a lot of buzz created in the last few years. The difficulty with innovation is that we all have an intuitive understanding of the topic and we aspire to be innovative, but ...

Plan to Provide Federal Funding for Early-Stage Investments Perfect for San Diego’s Innovation Economy, Says Connect’s Roth

Back in August, Connect CEO Duane Roth outlined an initiative to address a dearth of venture capital investment by seeking to develop alternative funding sources for San Diego’s early-stage ...

Economic development conference draws 1,400 people to St. John Fisher

The third annual event, sponsored by the Small Business Council of Rochester and Greater Rochester Enterprise, was intended to stir enthusiasm for the region as a place to do business. The event was ...

BW: GROWTH THROUGH INNOVATION

BusinessWeek has assembled a number of articles related to innovation. Check them all out! GROWTH THROUGH ...

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Cuts Ribbon on CommerceConnect—Department’s First One-Stop Shop

PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN—U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke opened the department’s first one-stop shop today in Plymouth, Mich., bringing together under one roof all the agency’s services to make it ...

Venture capital funding plummets 81% in quarter

Venture capital funding plummeted more than 80 percent in the third quarter, as investors clung to their cash during the recession. U.S. firms raised just $1.6 billion during the period, the lowest ...

Angel Group Looks For Wins By Setting Its Sights A Little Later

Most angel investors dream of home-run exits, funneling seed capital into young start-ups with hopes they’ll turn into Google, YouTube or even Mint.com. But the Band of Angels, an angel group flush ...

Does the Nobel Peace Prize improve the world, or is it just a money-wasting ego trip?

Do-good prize season—less glamorous than the Oscars, but contentious nonetheless. The MacArthur Fellows (often called the "Genius" awards) were announced a few weeks ago and last Friday—well, you ...

College entrepreneurship programs expand

NYC universities see a spike in enrollments for studies focusing on how students can launch and manage their own businesses. Colleges have often provided fertile ground for innovation: Facebook was ...

Resources: The New Culture of Entrepreneurship

Earlier this month at the Mass Tech Leadership Council's Innovation Unconference, I helped lead a session called "How Do We Turbo-Charge the Culture of Entrepreneurship in Massachusetts?" It ...

Why Canadian Tech Companies are Disappearing

TORONTO, Oct. 14 /CNW/ - We are wasting the productive lives of many brilliant and courageous knowledge workers and losing large sums of money doing it. This is the stark conclusion of a new study, ...

Legislators eye round 2 for Ohio Capital Fund

As the Ohio Capital Fund rounds the finish line in investing $150 million in venture capital firms, two legislators want to breathe new life into what they consider one of the state’s key economic ...

WSJ: How Start-Ups Attract Corporate Acquirers - And How They Blow It

Corporate investors and acquirers are showing more interest in potential deals after a difficult economic downturn, but start-ups can improve their chances of a favorable exit by taking some steps of ...

Innovation Valley changing recruitment strategy

KNOXVILLE — A local economic development consortium has outlined a new strategy for attracting high-tech companies. Knoxville-Oak Ridge Innovation Valley today unveiled a plan to focus on ...

Wisconsin and Manitoba work together to promote innovation & trade

Governor Jim Doyle today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Province of Manitoba and the State of Wisconsin promoting the growth of innovation through collaboration, ...

The Global Academic Innovation Network (GAIN) Announces 2020 Plan

Arlington, Va. (PRWEB) October 13, 2009 -- On Columbus Day, Richard C. Litman, the Founder of the Global Academic Innovation Network (GAIN), announced GAIN's 2020 plan to help universities and ...

New Michigan Venture Center One-Stop Shop For Investors, Inventors

The University of Michigan is among the nation's leaders in creating startup ventures based on university technology. To build on that success, UM technology transfer officials have created the new ...

Angel Investors and Venture Capital – Pipe Dreams?

Even in the best of times, venture capital was a dream for most small businesses, especially startups. Now it has dried up for almost everyone, so yes it is a pipe dream. Angel investors are more ...

Democrats Plan New Push to Tax Venture-Capital, Buyout Managers

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats plan a renewed push to raise taxes on executives at private-equity and venture- capital firms to help pay for year-end economic recovery legislation, a top ...

Venture-Capital Funds Sink to 15-Year Low

BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Venture-capital firms raised the smallest number of funds in 15 years in the third quarter, weighed down by the credit crisis. Firms raised 17 funds, the same number as in the ...

CEOs need a 360 Degrees Perspective for Growth, Innovation and Leadership- Frost & Sullivan's GIL 2009, Middle East key message

Abu Dhabi, UAE - Growing businesses in a complex environment, leading enterprises to innovate and using technology for innovation were the key themes of discussion at Frost & Sullivan's flagship ...

WSJ: Think The Worst Is Over? Think Again, VCs Say At Tech Showcase

In a classic episode of “The Simpsons,” the owner of convenience store Kwik-E-Mart, Apu, is being held up at gunpoint and shouts to a policeman in the store for help. The cop, Chief Wiggum, ...

UK - Lord Mandelson has called on businesses to continue to innovate even during the recession as the government announces an £80 million funding injection to support the cause.

The government this week announced plans to invest more than £80 million to encourage greater development of innovative technology in the UK. In addition to a £82.5 million funding injection into ...