SCIPRENEURSHIP

Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at Interfaces David L. Chandler | MIT News Office January 24, 2017 Ketchup’s sluggish pace as it oozes out of its bottle is a longstanding nuisance — but one that is about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical [..]

BIRAC Announces 10th Call for Proposals under the Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) Scheme 1st Jan-15th Feb, 2017 Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), a Section 8 ‘Not-for-Profit Company’ of Government of India, has been set up as DBT’s interface agency, to serve as a single window for emerging biotech companies. [..]

NIH Launched a New Drug Formulary For Expedite Use of Agents in Clinical Trials By: NIH News January 20, 2017 The National Cancer Institute (NCI) today launched a new drug formulary (the “NCI Formulary”) that will enable investigators at NCI-designated Cancer Centers to have quicker access to approved and investigational [..]

New Accelerating Innovation to Market (AIM) Program of UC San Diego to Expands Campus Innovation Pipeline By: Paul K. Mueller December 13, 2016  The innovation ecosystem at UC San Diego will open more opportunities for campus entrepreneurs with the launch of Accelerating Innovations to Market (AIM), an ambitious program that encourages [..]

Creating Clinical Bioengineers By: UCSD News December 10, 2016 A group of UC San Diego bioengineering students huddle around a computer screen as colored images of blood being pumped through a heart flash across the screen. The students are observing as a physician annotates an MRI of a patient’s heart and [..]

Stanford researchers say school kids can do safe and simple biological experiments over the internet BY ANDREW MYERS (Stanford News) For as long as biology has been a cornerstone of scientific education, laboratory instruction for students has begun with an introduction to the wonders of one-celled creatures under a microscope. [..]

  Pfizer Announces Expansion of ASPIRE Awards Program for 2017 to Include $5.5M in Funding for Breast and Hematologic Cancers 2016 ASPIRE Breast Cancer Research Award Winners Also Unveiled December 7, 2016  Pfizer News Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that it will expand the company’s Advancing Science through Pfizer Investigator [..]

Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research (B-ACER) Application submission deadline extended upto 15th December 2016 Recognizing that clean and efficient energy, environmental protection and energy security are among the biggest challenges facing India and the United States; the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum [..]

3 Ways to Read Your Customers’ Minds By:Maria Ross, Brand strategist, author and speaker  From entrepreneur.com Admit it. As a business owner, you know you secretly dream about prospective customers or clients reading your sales copy or seeing your Facebook ad and instantly shouting, “Yes! That’s exactly what I need! It’s like you’ve read [..]

Technology Entrepreneurship: Overview, Definition, and Distinctive Aspects Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs (1955–2011) Co-founder [..]

TechCon: Solutions by Science for Different Issues of the World Innovators and researchers tackle global issues through actionable research and collaboration. Rob Matheson | MIT News Office November 17, 2016     This weekend, an MIT-hosted conference convened inventive minds from around the world to learn about — and collaborate on [..]

RVC, Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubator Association and Global Venture Alliance agree upon Cooperation RVC, Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubator Association (ISBA), and Global Venture Alliance (GVA) plan to join their efforts in the technology area to gain mutual benefits for both [..]

The Transformative Business Model By: Stelios Kavadias, Kostas Ladas and Christoph Loch We usually associate an industry’s transformation with the adoption of a new technology. But although new technologies are often major factors, they have never transformed an industry on their own. What does achieve such a transformation is a business model that can link [..]

Successful Companies Don’t Adapt, They Prepare By: Greg Satell In 1960, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt published a landmark paper in Harvard Business Review that urged executives to adapt by asking themselves, “What business are we really in?” He offered the both the railroad companies and Hollywood studios as examples of industries [..]

Seven Books For You To be an Idea Factory By Jessica Stillman Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of great ideas don’t just pop out of thin air. Most are actually the unexpected combination of two or more concepts from different branches of knowledge. Innovation isn’t magic; it’s collision. The [..]

5 Keys for Building a Business without Money By: Michael Glauser “I want to start a business but I don’t have any money.” I hear this statement over and over again as I work with aspiring entrepreneurs. Many of them have sound ideas, but feel they need a lengthy business plan [..]

MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs By: Rob Matheson | MIT News Office MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced the creation of The Engine, a new kind of enterprise designed to support startup companies working on scientific and technological innovation with the potential for transformative societal impact. President Reif made [..]

7 Lessons On Startup Funding From a Research Scientist By Dharmesh Shah My wife isn’t in business, but she is wise in the way of funding. Just as I have experience on both sides of the funding table (as an entrepreneur and as an angel), so does she. As a [..]

How to start a data science business? By Aditya Joshi, Data Scientist Never start an ambitious project alone. It is important to know that how customers are obtained, how ruthless marketing is done, how you lure experts to hire. You need someone for managing such issues – while you continue working [..]

Starting from scratch: How do you build a world-class research lab? By: JOHN TIMMER What does it cost to build a research center from scratch these days? Gerry Rubin, who runs the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus in Virginia, estimated that his organization will spend a few billion dollars before it’s [..]

From idea to start-up – founding a company in the field of life sciences BY ANKE WILDE Founding a company in the field of life sciences is associated with high initial investments for good equipment and capable minds are required. Scientists who dream of founding a company will find the [..]

A Radical Idea for Pure Science: The Scientist-Entrepreneur David J. Teece Thomas W. Tusher Professor in Global Business, Haas School of Business As much as we celebrate new technology and treat successful entrepreneurs like rock stars, there is still a tension at many universities between the mission of fundamental research [..]

Scientific Entrepreneurship Is an Option By Sonya Clemmons Ask Dr. Clemmons is a monthly advice column for scientists and engineers who are seeking top-notch academic, career, and personal development advice. Please read the introductory article and my most recent article to see what the column is all about, and then [..]

The Entrepreneurial Bug By Alan Kotok Whereas some budding entrepreneurs start a company so that they can be their own boss or get rich quick, scientists usually have a different motivation: to transform their research findings into products or services that help people. This is what motivated three academic researchers [..]