Monday, December 05, 2011
The Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research (the Institute) announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with NanoPhotonica, an early-stage Orlando-based company that develops nanomaterials for next generation video displays, solar cells, and a range of other photoelectric devices. The Institute works with Florida's research universities and institutions to support new company and job creation. The goal of this program is to bridge funding gaps for early-stage companies and enable them to attract additional capital from angels, venture capital firms and others. ..
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
A timely reminder of the promise of public higher education has emerged in a most unlikely place: the plains of the far north.
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
Historically, there has been a clear distinction between the roles of
public-sector research and corporate research in the discovery of new
drugs and vaccines to solve unmet medical needs. Public-sector research
institutions (PSRIs) have performed the upstream, basic research to
elucidate the underlying mechanisms and pathways of disease and identify
promising points of intervention, whereas corporate researchers have
performed the downstream, applied research to discover drugs that can be
used to treat diseases and have then carried out the development
activities to bring the drugs to market. The intellectual property that
protects the investment in developing these drugs is created in the
applied-research phase. ..
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
As the US economy slowly rebuilds and the smoke from
four years of charred capital starts to dissipate, we can discern the
shape of the next 20 years of job growth. What we see is an economy
unlike any we’ve ever known. ..
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
In November 2010 Karen Holbrook was charged with heading up international
initiatives for the University of South Florida. With the addition of
this role she now oversees the Office of Research & Innovation and
USF World (formerly International Affairs) to create an integrated,
system-wide global research strategy for the university. ..
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Innovation is more important today than land, location or cheap labor in
the new global economy, and experts who spoke Monday at a symposium in
Tallahassee offered ideas on how this area and Northwest Florida can
compete for a share of that business growth. ..
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Monday, April 04, 2011
What good could possibly come from studying a nematode's libido? Or a
shark's sense of smell? And who in the world would want to collect
samples of sweat from treadmills at the gym? Those are all studies
that have been undertaken by Florida universities over the past few
years. And school officials say the studies can do a lot of good.
Florida's public and private universities spent almost $1.7 billion on
scientific research and development in 2009 (the last year figures are
available), the 10th highest amount in the country. ..
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Universities nationwide are banding together to fight federal cuts to
research that they say could hurt jobs and ultimately delay the
development of new products that could move the nation forward. ..
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011
With a federal budget battle showdown underway, science looks like
collateral damage, say former federal officials, with proposed cuts to
research that they consider severe. At stake, they warn, is the nation's
long-term economic growth. ..
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Monday, February 28, 2011
BioFlorida hosted its 4th Annual BioFlorida Legislative Day
in Tallahassee on Feb. 16 to address the concerns and future needs of
Florida’s biotechnology and life science companies. The event was
attended by 21 BioFlorida members who met with 20 legislators serving on
substantive and appropriations committees that have jurisdiction over
issues of importance to BioFlorida and its member companies. The group,
which is the trade association for Florida’s bioscience industry that
represents more than 200 member companies and research organizations in
the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device fields, also heard
presentations by Chancellor Frank T. Brogan of the State University
System of Florida; Rebecca Rust, director of the Labor Market Statistics
Center at the Agency for Workforce Innovation; Florida TaxWatch; and
from the Legislative Biotech Caucus. ..
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