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Here we highlight selected innovation related articles from around the world on a daily basis. These articles related to innovation and funding for innovative companies, and best practices for innovation based economic development.
Dear Secretary Raimondo, Dr. Olthoff, and Dr. Lander,
In 1980, lawmakers passed the groundbreaking Bayh-Dole Act and ignited four-plus decades of American innovation.
The bipartisan law enabled ...
Read more: AUTM letter to the Administration
“You have inherited a system which took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to create. Its benefits are clear to anyone who cares to look, but we need to constantly educate our policy makers, the ...
Read more: Stand Up to the Attacks on Our Tech Transfer System
In mid-February 2020, I became the CEO of Care.com. I expected a lot would change, but I didn’t expect — nor could I have predicted — that everything would. A global pandemic completely ...
Read more: The Pandemic Is Changing Employee Benefits
This is the annual startup competition run by Pepperdine University. Founders of U.S. based companies that make the Most Fundable Companies List will be invited to our gala event in Malibu in ...
Read more: Most Fundable Companies - Questionnaire
Lisa couldn’t stand it any longer. Every time she met her colleague Peter, one of the senior executives at the large retail chain where they both worked, he would begin an endless lament about his ...
Read more: Managing a Chronic Complainer
The Economic Development Administration (EDA) is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications under its FY 2021 University Center Economic Development Program competition. Open to ...
Read more: EDA Launches University Center Competition
Americans are slowly returning to their favorite mom-and-pop shops and locally-owned restaurants. With COVID-19 cases falling each day, and 14% of the population fully vaccinated, most states have ...
Read more: How Vaccines Are Saving Small Business
Tweet Post Share Save Print In 2012 MIT Professor Amos Winter was asked to develop a lighter, cheaper prosthetic leg for the huge Indian market. And not just a bit cheaper: the new limbs needed to be ...
Read more: Innovation Starts with Defining the Right Constraints
Fail fast, the adage goes, and move on to the next big idea. Most innovation managers know that few of their initiatives will succeed, so they keep multiple projects running at the same time and ...
Read more: Research: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects
Florida will start allowing people age 16 and older to be vaccinated on Monday. It’s a moment that Michael Lauzardo, deputy director of the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, ...
Read more: How One University Is Preparing for a Vaccine Blitz
This article updates our perspectives on when the coronavirus pandemic will end to reflect the latest information on vaccine rollout, variants of concern, and disease progression. In the United ...
Read more: When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? | McKinsey