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Berkshire Innovation Center opens new facility at Mass MoCA
State Sen. Paul Mark speaks as the Berkshire Innovation Center officially opens its first satellite campus, BIC Works @Mass MoCA Friday. The Pittsfield-based innovation center officially opened its first satellite campus, BIC Works @Mass MoCA, on Friday with an on-site grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. GILLIAN JONES-HECK…
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The urgent call for innovation and investment in maternal health
Maneesh Jain Contributor Maneesh Jain, PhD, is CEO and co-founder of Mirvie, a company pioneering the prediction of life-threatening pregnancy complications months in advance. More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci became fascinated by his anatomical dissection of the womb of a pregnant woman who had died and intended to uncover the secrets behind…
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Hoag Innovators invests $1 million in medical innovations
Newport Beach resident Robert Brunswick described Thursday night’s Hoag Innovators fall meeting as “Shark Tank” meets “Ted Talks.” Brunswick and his wife, Kitty, founded Hoag Innovators in 2017 with the goal of promoting innovation at Hoag through collective and engaged giving, he said. “Most importantly, our investments in the latest technology and research are measurably…
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UNC Charlotte gets Tech Hubs grant to drive innovation, job creation
By Inside UNC Charlotte UNC Charlotte has been awarded a Strategy Development Grant of $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration. The federal funding is part of the inaugural Tech Hubs program. The University is partnering with the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance; Centralina Regional Council; and more than 25 industry, academic institutions…
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Agri-Food Innovation Summit Puts Focus on Arkansas Ag Research
National and state leaders in agriculture, food innovation and entrepreneurship will be gathering on Thursday, Nov. 2 and Friday, Nov. 3 for the Arkansas Agri-Food Innovation Summit, according to the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. The first-of-its-kind event, meant to spotlight federal funding opportunities that can drive industry transformation, is free of charge…
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Opinion: Untangling the great policy mess of Canada’s innovation problem
Open this photo in gallery: Illustration by Domenic Bahmann David Naylor is president emeritus of the University of Toronto. He has served on federal panels addressing funding and governance of support for extramural academic research and industrial research and development. Stephen J. Toope is president of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has headed…
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Midwest Wireless Consortium Lands Innovation Tech Funding
The Biden-Harris administration announced Tuesday the designation of 31 Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs, as well as the recipients of 29 Strategy Development Grants (SDG) awarded by the United States Economic Development Administration (EDA). Both actions represent the first phase of the EDA’s Tech Hubs Program, which aims to strengthen U.S. economic and national security…
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Q&A: The state of healthcare innovation in Israel
Israel has long been a hub for healthcare innovation. Since the war began in early October, many of the countries’ high-skilled tech workers have been recruited by the military, the startup landscape has changed and companies are struggling to retain the traction they once had in furthering their innovations and garnering investment, says Eli Levin,…
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The innovation that has emerged from the World Solar Car Challenge
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge has been run and, at least in one of its two classes, won for another year. And, once again, the trophy is moving to a Dutch-speaking part of the world. The Belgian Innoptus team claimed a second consecutive victory with an inspired design incorporating a top-of-the-line battery storage unit from…
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Transcript: House Hearing on Safeguarding Data and Innovation
Gabby Miller is Staff Writer for Tech Policy Press. US House hearing on “Safeguarding Data and Innovation: Setting the Foundation for the Use of AI,” October 18, 2023, Washington DC. Source Last week, on Oct. 18, 2023, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its artificial intelligence series with a hearing titled “Safeguarding…
