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• Study finds students outpace faculty in innovations, analyzes ‘nascent academic entrepreneurs’

  
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  A new study of “nascent academic entrepreneurs” funded by the Kauffman Foundation has concludes that it’s more likely that PhD students, not faculty, form the initial idea for a new technology that forms the basis of a start-up. Though these academic spinouts eventually resemble other typical technology ...
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• Biopharmaceutical Royalty Rate Analysis: Essential Benchmarks for Dealmaking

  
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  Executives involved in any aspect of dealmaking know it’s hard to find real-world data on deal terms such as royalty rates, milestones and up-fronts. A new tool from BioWorld solves this problem. Biopharmaceutical Royalty Rates Analysis: Essential Benchmarks for Dealmaking analyzes hundreds of licensing deals ...
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• One of Harvard’s largest-ever donations aims to boost tech transfer

  
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  The Blavatnik Family Foundation is granting Harvard University $50 million to help bridge the gap between university-based biomedical research and the launch of new therapies and products. The gift is one of the largest of its kind to be granted to Harvard in recent years, and it comes at a time of significant cuts in ...
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• Veredus Labs and A*STAR develop novel blood test for tropical diseases

  
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  Veredus Laboratories, a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics in Singapore, has developed the first molecular diagnostics biochip that can identify 13 different major tropical diseases from a single blood sample. These illnesses include dengue fever, malaria, chikungunya, and hand, foot and mouth disease. Veredus teamed ...
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• Inspired by fly’s eye, researchers create camera with nearly 200 lenses for wider view

  
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  Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a digital camera modeled after the fly’s eye, with nearly 200 tiny lenses for a sharp and exceptionally wide field of view. Shaped in a rounded half bubble and outfitted with a range of electronics and sensors, ...
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• Columbia start-ups hit the jackpot in Vegas with CES demonstrations

  
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  It’s not something every TTO does (it may in fact be a first), but Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) is more than pleased that it recently backed the promotion of five of its start-ups at the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. “We feel Columbia got great branding at the event, and it was also ...
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• New app makes it easier for startups to stay in touch with its investors

  
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  Raymond Luk, entrepreneur and founder of the start-up accelerator Year One Labs, has launched a new mobile app that helps start-ups keep in touch with their investors. “Every angel investor has had this experience,” Luk explains. “You have this weird, awkward scenario where you’re sending an e-mail, asking, ...
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• MIT expands start-up accelerator program to include students from abroad

  
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  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will expand its accelerator program for student entrepreneurs by adding six teams from overseas that will come to the U.S. this summer to try to launch start-ups alongside the local students in the program. The additional teams have been pooled from Russia, Turkey, Canada, ...
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• Marketing Writing Workshop for Tech Transfer Professionals next week

  
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  Virtually every tech transfer office has scores of promising innovations needing partners and licensees to bring them to the marketplace. Yet many TTOs don’t have a single dedicated marketing professional to help bring these innovations to light. To make matters worse, while technology managers are well-versed in ...
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• Program enlists MRC to serve as mentor for other European TTOs

  
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  Tech transfer group MRC Technology, the commercialization arm of the UK’s Medical Research Council, has announced it will become the first organization to host the ENTENTE Professional Exchange Program, an initiative to bolster tech transfer in universities, hospitals and other research institutions throughout ...
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• Tech transfer institute to open in Alberta, bringing both excitement and skepticism

  
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  A new tech transfer institute is opening in Alberta, Canada that will help researchers and students from any campus in the province take their innovations to market. So far unnamed, the institute will spin off new companies, help diversify the economy and generate revenue for campuses and businesses. Funding for the ...
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• 7 steps to finding and maintaining to right start-up mentor

  
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  Martin Zwilling of the entrepreneurial blog Startup Professional Musings recently posted advice for founders seeking “the right start-up mentor.” One thing many start-ups don’t consider, Zwilling notes, is that a good relationship with a mentor means putting in some effort of one’s own, “both in nurturing ...
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• Australian researcher’s hi-tech optical filter makes its way to market

  
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  Dr. Jochen Schroeder, a researcher at the University of Sydney, has developed a computer programmable optical filter that can shape light in highly sophisticated ways. The Australian company Finisar has picked up Dr. Schroeder’s invention and attached it to an existing Finisar programmable optical processor called ...
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• New biotech incubator model gives start-ups drug candidates to develop

  
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  A new biotech incubator in Cambridge, MA, aims to generate more successful start-ups by equipping them from the start with drug candidates for orphan diseases licensed from universities and research institutions. The incubator is called Cydan, and it is the pet project of life sciences veteran David Mott. He managed ...
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• Commercializing Mobile Apps: Effective Management of Legal Threats and Challenges

  
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  The explosion in sales of smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices has given rise to a market for mobile apps that forecasters predict will exceed $25 billion by 2015. For university TTOs, this presents a tremendous opportunity for new revenues as well as new relationships with the hundreds of students and ...
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• 5 lessons U Colorado learned from running a start-up competition

  
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  The University of Colorado recently finished its 5th annual New Venture Challenge Championships (NVC), and school officials are sharing what they’ve learned about start-up contests over the years. “Few things inspire like seeing entrepreneurs — especially students — solve problems by creating new ...
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• U Utah, RocketHub collaborate to launch new crowdfunding platform for universities

  
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  One of the most productive technology transfer operations for start-up creation in the nation — the University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Office — aims to refine its process even further through a collaboration with crowdfunding platform operator RocketHub. The pair just launched the University Tech ...
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• AngelList releases equity crowdfunding service

  
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  The investor-startup matchmaker AngelList has unveiled its highly anticipated equity crowdfunding service to site users. Once available to only a handful of companies, the AngelList Invest service is now accessible to any start-up that’s raised at least $100,000 in seed funding, as well as to accredited angel ...
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• U of Illinois tech transfer arm expands staff, boosts funding

  
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  IllinoisVentures, the tech transfer arm of the University of Illinois (UI), has announced it is expanding with new administrative staff and a boost in funding for university-based start-ups. Nancy Sullivan, director of UI-Chicago’s tech transfer office, will become co-managing director at IllinoisVentures with John ...
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• 5 tips from VCs on how to craft a start-up pitch

  
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  Experienced players in the start-up game tend to agree on what makes for a winning pitch. According to the website Mashable , it comes down to five key tips: 1. Start with a great company: Selling your company takes precedence over boasting about your business plan or sales technique. “Great investors can see ...
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