Biotech landlord and developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities has purchased an office complex in Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park from Stanford University for $100.3 million.

Image: Joel Marcus is CEO of Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. 

In 2007, the European Investment Bank issued its first green bond, a EUR 600 million equity index-linked security, whose proceeds were used to fund renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. A year later, the World Bank followed suit, and by 2017, over $155 billion worth of public and corporate green bonds had been issued, paving the way for the Seychelles government to issue the first ever “blue bond” last year— a $15 million bond to fund marine protection and sustainable fisheries.

MADISON – Wisconsin’s early-stage health and life science firms and the Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) received national attention for the state’s success over the past decade in landing competitive federal grants.

Wisconsin ranked third after Oregon and Vermont in securing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2008-2017. The 23 percent win rate for applications (248 awards from 1,056 submissions) resulted in $87 million invested in the state’s entrepreneurial efforts.

Ever since the economy began to bounce back, with unemployment at an all-time low, the familiar refrain from pundits has been that growth, particularly of the higher wage variety, would head to the tech-oriented elite cities along the coasts. Yet, today, despite the headlines about Amazon’s expansions in New York and Washington, D.C., the real story is the aggressive growth taking place on a changing stage, both in terms of geography and changing labor demands.

Carlsberg beer cans are to be stuck together with glue as it becomes one of the first brewers to abandon plastic rings.

The Danish firm said the move, which has been heralded as a world-first, to attach its multi-packs with adhesive will reduce the use of plastic to package products by 75 per cent.

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Straws have become the latest target in the Government’s war on plastic, following a crackdown on single-use carrier bags and disposable coffee cups.

In the Spring statement last month, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced that the Government would hold a consultation on plastic litter, and is calling for evidence on single-use plastics, the supply chain, alternative materials and recycling opportunities.

Two-thirds of the 'planet GDP' is covered by ten economies; over 50 per cent, by the top four of them (USA, China, Japan, and Germany) representing 28.4 per cent of the world's population. From these data, it emerges that the GDP is an exclusive club that lays down rules and practices to preside over the world economy.

Entirely different from the 'Planet GDP' is the image of the 'Planet Happiness' that appears when observing the data of the World Happiness Report, which covers 156 countries. The 'top ten happy' have just over a third of the American population. The top four are Scandinavian countries.

Years ago, I worked in corporate America (and Canada), and I have often talked and written about h
ow the lessons I learned can transfer between the two types of organizations. Recently I was introduced to Pete Blackshaw, of Cintrifuse, whose story below follows a similar theme and he has great tips for entrepreneurs.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University hit a milestone in startup creation in 2018 with 223 startups, more than $350 million in funding and investments generated and more than 300 new jobs, officials announced today (Jan. 10).

“Purdue has a 150-year history of producing world-class research.  Five years ago we set out to establish an equally strong commercialization ecosystem to ramp up the translation of this research into the market and into real-world solutions,” Purdue University President Mitch Daniels said. “These efforts are clearly beginning to bear fruit, and to encourage us that these gains are just a beginning.”

Marine Antarctic animals closely associated with sea ice for food or breeding, such the humpback whale and emperor penguin, are most at risk from the predicted effects of climate change, finds a new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science. Using risk assessments like those used for setting occupational safety limits in the workplace, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey determined the winners and losers of Antarctic climate-change impacts, which includes temperature rise, sea-ice reduction and changes in food availability.

Listener Brian wrote in with a dilemma. Like many office workers, he works in an open cube environment. He’s friendly and easygoing, but finds he’s a magnet for coworkers taking a break from their own work. People pull up a chair next to his cube and chat, sometimes for up to half an hour! And when they’re not hanging out in his cube, they’re often hanging out nearby, having a loud conversation or talking on the phone. 

Each time her grandpa tried to inject a vial of insulin into his body, his pen’s plunger couldn’t reach every drop of the lifesaving solution. He had to throw the rest away.

It was frustrating because those traces can add up to hundreds of dollars wasted, which is difficult for those who lack health insurance, as he once did.

So when 11-year-old Makiyla Carrico had to create a problem-solving invention for a school competition, it didn’t take her long to think of one.

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Now that CES 2019 has ended, marketers are feverishly working to deliver presentations and POVs that justify the large contingents they sent to Las Vegas last week to chart the biggest innovative trends facing 2019. But the reality of CES 2019 is that it was not a year of “new.”

We live in an age of technology and innovation and these are key factors which determine where a country stands in terms of progress. The Innovation Cities™ Program by 2thinknow helps cities to measure and develop an innovation economy, and business to compare cities for investment.

In the coming months, Amazon will start hiring its way toward 50,000 jobs between newly announced dual second headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia. Right on their heels, Google will begin its billion-dollar expansion and addition of 7,000 more jobs in Manhattan. Two moves alone don’t make a region, but they mark a powerful vote of confidence that adds energy and momentum.

Pappas Capital has raised $85.8 million toward a venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

A. M. Pappas Life Science Ventures V attracted capital from 29 LPs.

The filing is available here.

The inaugural cohort in Dreamit’s SecureTech accelerator program, launched last summer in a bid to spot early companies in the budding cybersecurity market, spent 14 weeks getting coaching, entrepreneur-focused programming and intros to investors.

The net was positive for the seven companies involved — all of which hail from outside of Philly — according to Managing Director Bob Stasio, the former Army vet and IBM exec in charge of the accelerator.

Image: Dreamit's SecureTech program takes companies through 14-weeks of programming. - Courtesy Photo

Longtime Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Venture) is rebranding to Threshold Ventures, Axios reported on Wednesday.

The three people who helped launch DFJ in 1985 — Tim Draper; John Fisher; and Steve Jurvetson — are no longer involved with the firm.

Image: Bill Bryant. (GeekWire photo / Taylor Soper)

Artificial intelligence continues to be increasingly used throughout the general public and businesses to enhance consumer experiences. Research from Gartner predicts AI will generate a business value of $2.9 trillion by 2022. It's making doing business easier because it offers entrepreneurs several benefits that can help them grow their businesses. Here's how:

MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioForward, Wisconsin’s state association representing over 200 biohealth member companies, announced three additions to this year’s Board of Directors. The board represents many facets of the state’s diverse biohealth industry and focuses on advocating for Wisconsin’s strengths in development of integrated health solutions and academic research.