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The Pentagon projects exploring ways to end pandemics - 60 Minutes - CBS News

The military wants to stop pandemics. Many of the innovations and breakthroughs deployed to combat COVID-19 began years ago as Pentagon-funded research programs to protect soldiers, some spearheaded ...

SEC Announces Dr. James Crowe Wins 2021 Faculty Achievement Award for Vanderbilt University - SECU | SECU

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (April 8, 2021) – Dr. James Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine, has been named winner of the 2021 SEC Faculty ...

To encourage innovation, Congress should pass two bills protecting important R&D tax provision | TheHill

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have expressed a desire to bring the country together and work on a bipartisan basis to help the economy recover as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. If ...

Higher ed makes America the innovation capital of the world. Here's why

At the outbreak of the pandemic, no one could have predicted that Americans would have access to three highly effective vaccines within a year. No one, that is, except our nation's scientists. ...

Let’s talk about gaslighting and fundraising | TechCrunch

“Most of the startups I give advice to about how to raise venture capital shouldn’t be raising venture capital,” an investor recently told me. While the idea that every startup isn’t ...

The value of distance learning for capability building | McKinsey

Seemingly overnight, COVID-19 has triggered a radical reworking of work. Long-percolating digital transformation plans accelerated from months to days, as companies scrambled to move customer-facing ...

U.S. University R&D Funding Falls Further Behind OECD Peers | ITIF

In 2013, ITIF found that America was no longer the lead nation in terms of funding university research—nowhere near it, in fact—despite having world-leading research universities that have been ...

5 New Venture Mistakes That Can Cost You The Business - Startup Professionals Musings

Although every startup is unique, there are certain common avoidable mistakes that can lead to legal complications which jeopardize the long-term success of the business. I’m not suggesting that ...

Is Remote Work Getting Stale? Here's How to Freshen It Up

For many years, remote work was an amenity. It was something startups and young companies offered as a way to attract top-flight talent and stand out in a crowded job market. Now? Remote work is an ...

Questions I Asked Myself Before Leaving My Job - Rolling Stone

Many people are tempted by the prospect of starting their own company. Entrepreneurship brings the opportunity to be your own boss, solve your own problems and create your own rules. ...

3 Expert Tips For Thinking Differently As An Entrepreneur (And Why Your Brain’s Needed)

It’s no secret that entrepreneurs think differently than the average person. After all, it takes a lot of ingenuity (not to mention guts) to launch your own business and build it from scratch to ...

6 Keys To Finding The Right People For A Winning Team - Startup Professionals Musings

If you are a new business owner or entrepreneur, you are likely to be creative and willing to take a risk, and you robably assume that most potential team members have the same mindset. ...

6 Ways To Improve Your Chances Of New Venture Success - Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur wants to know how they can improve their odds on the road to success, and why some entrepreneurs seem to be able to squeeze success out of even a marginal business case. Most ...

‘Maybe The Largest Venture Capital Opportunity In History’: Money Pours Into Climate-Focused Proptech

Venture capital firms this year have begun raising hundreds of millions of dollars that they plan to deploy into proptech startups aimed at taking on climate change by making buildings more ...

AUTM letter to the Administration

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 ...

Stand Up to the Attacks on Our Tech Transfer System

“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 ...

Nation’s first quantum startup accelerator, Duality, launches at UChicago’s Polsky Center and Chicago Quantum Exchange | University of Chicago News

The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Chicago Quantum Exchange today announced the launch of Duality, the first accelerator program in the ...

The Pandemic Is Changing Employee Benefits

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 ...

Most Fundable Companies - Questionnaire

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 ...

GE is developing a COVID-19 detector that fits in an iPhone

Is there COVID-19 on this train car? Is there COVID-19 in this restaurant? Is there COVID-19 at this grocery store? Is there COVID-19 . . . in me? These are the questions we’ve been asking ...

Managing a Chronic Complainer

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 ...

Why does your nose run when you exercise? - Canadian Running Magazine

Exercise-induced rhinitis: you may not have heard of it, but you might have experienced it. EIR is a common disorder associated with one or more symptoms including sneezing, a runny nose, nasal ...

The Future Of Boston's Innovation Economy | Radio Boston

Last week, we talked about the 400 year history of Boston innovation. Thursday, we continue the conversation, focusing on the present and future of Boston's innovation economy. We're joined by ...

EDA Launches University Center Competition

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 ...

Behind the growing footprint of Maryland's 55K-employee life sciences industry - Technical.ly DC

Long home to federal institutions like the National Institutes of Health and leading universities, suburban areas like Montgomery County have long been home to a cluster of talent and companies ...

Do you still need to wear a mask after COVID-19 vaccine? Yes, experts say. Here's why.

Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is one important step toward a return to normalcy, but there are a few things about post-vaccination life that can feel like an adjustment for some people after ...

How Vaccines Are Saving Small Business

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 ...

3 Types of Vacations That Will Make You a Better Entrepreneur

These days, we could all use a vacation. But while everyone has been working from home, some feel this reality is more like living at work. According to a May 2020 Washington Post article, nearly ...

Innovation Starts with Defining the Right Constraints

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 ...

Moore’s Law and the Indian venture capital, startup ecosystem | VCCircle

These are exciting and invigorating times for the venture capital and entrepreneurship landscape in India. We are witnessing multiple large fundraises and exits. On the whole, the ...

Understanding Major Metropolitan Domestic Migration | Newgeography.com

It has been clear for years that net domestic migration to and from major metropolitan areas (over 1 million population) has been characterized by moving out of costly areas, like Los Angeles, the ...

Research: How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects

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 ...

VC Firms Poured $9 Billion Into LA Companies in 2020 | Los Angeles Business Journal

Amid one of the most tumultuous years in recent economic history, Los Angeles companies managed to land $9 billion in venture capital funding in 2020. According to a new report from CBRE Group Inc., ...

House Science Committee Introduces Act to Double NSF Budget and Create Technology Directorate - ASME

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives recently introduced the “National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Future Act,” which would more than ...

How One University Is Preparing for a Vaccine Blitz

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, ...

5 Perceptions On How Many Business Friends Are Enough - Startup Professionals Musings

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend” and even changed it from a noun to a verb. On Twitter and Facebook, many young people follow hundreds of ...

Here's What Will Actually Convince People to Get Vaccinated | Time

One of evolution’s cleverest tricks was giving us a sense of shame. It’s a miserable feeling—low, humbling, publicly discomfiting—but it’s supposed to be: if you do something lousy you ...

Connected DMV, a Driving Force Behind Montgomery County’s New Global Pandemic Prevention and Biodefense Center · BioBuzz

Identifying gaps and bridging them—that’s what Connected DMV’s President and CEO Stu Solomon does best. And now he and his partners are turning their attention to one of the globe’s most ...

When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? | McKinsey

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 ...

United States Underwrites Lion’s Share of Global Pharma Costs

By Paul Brennan While it may not be ‘politically correct’ to discuss, the majority of the world’s drug developments and innovation are underwritten by the United States (U.S.). The U.S. is the ...