Companies associated with Georgia Techs science and technology incubator have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital since 1999 - and in 2006 accounted for 10 of the top 25 venture deals in Georgia, including the two largest.
The incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), has turned out 112 science and technology companies since 1986 - including 31 that have been represented on the public markets through IPOs or acquisitions.
At a May 10 event held to showcase the incubators companies, ATDC graduated six early-stage firms - three Internet companies, two semiconductor firms and a developer of homeland security technology. Together, those six early-stage firms raised more than $50 million while in the incubator.
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-EADS backing of advanced aerospace research at U.S. universities and colleges has been further expanded with $200,000 in funding to support technological development for EADS North Americas Fairchild Controls Corporation subsidiary.
The new contributions of $100,000 each for the University of Alabama, Huntsville and Georgia Institute of Technology cover 12-month research activities, with options for additional year-long grants of the same amount based on study work achievements. Fairchild Controls is investing its own resources – matching these cash contributions nearly dollar-for-dollar in technical and administrative support from the company.
EADS grant for the University of Alabama supports evaluations for the
University information technology officials rated funding for technology as the most pressing issue they face, according to an annual current issues survey by the Educause higher education association.
The survey asked campus IT managers to rank a series of information technology challenges on their campus, including security, funding, identity management, and strategic planning. Funding was No. 1.
But Peter DeBlois, director of programs for Educause, said the association believes technology spending is not an isolated concern for campus CIOs.
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The Technology Business Incubator (TBI), National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), is organising a workshop on software project management tomorrow. V.K. Vipin Kumar, managing director and chief executive officer of Astra Infotech, channel partners of IBM Rational Software, is the main speaker. The TBI was set up with support of the Department of Science and Technology of the Union Government.
The TBI concentrates on new industries in the information technology (IT), electronics and IT- enabled sectors. It provides them with facilities to grow into sustainable units. At present, there are five units working in the TBI. A few more units are
February 6 - BANGLAORE - Law and IITians, a combination unimaginable? No more. IITians profane beyond research into areas such as finance and technology and venturing transposed into national law. The Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), companies IITians now to be treated. And it is a trend that can not, of course, the study of justice in this country.
"We have several IIT graduates in our society with diverse backgrounds and a wealth of experience. IITians This work in collaboration with patent agents to draft patent applications, the assessment of their authenticity," said Sanjay Kamlani, Co-CEO, Pangea3, a company LPO. It is
We feel it at the pump. Fuel prices are at record highs and so is the demand for alternative fuels. But major scientific and technological advances are still required before economically viable alternative fuels become a significant part of the U.S. energy supply.
Researchers across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus are focusing their attention on biofuels. And while most experts agree that biofuels are not the silver bullet to solve the worlds long-term fuel needs, they see biofuels as a necessary complement to conventional oil and gas.
Biofuel research at Georgia Tech intensified in 2004 with the launch of
Hes got the guts to come back to his hometown
If you happen to know Tom Stephenson of Verge Fund, a venture capital deal that was just named a Top 100 Venture Capital Firm for Entrepreneurs in Entrepreneur magazine, then you know there was a whole lotta shakin going on before the accolade came.
I like Tom a bunch. I like his story even better because theres something rather Albuquerque in it thats instructive for all of us.
First, lets revisit a theme that knows no end for me: risk taking.
The Tom Stephensons of this state in the game of
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) wants to establish itself as one of the world's premier technology centres.
The Bangalore-based centre is India's equivalent of America's MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and responsible for training more than 2,000 of the country's top brains every year.
A wholly self-contained campus sprawling across 440 acres in Bangalore, the IISc provides full scholarships to all its students - all of whom live on campus - to ensure that they are free to focus on their studies and research.
But the institute has been slower than its US and European rivals in developing opportunities for commercial spin-offs
American Pacific Corporation (NASDAQ: APFC) today announced that Fred D. Gibson, Jr., one of its current directors and retired Chief Executive Officer, has made a commitment of $1 million to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. which receives and manages private contributions made for the support of (Georgia Tech). The $1 million commitment will be used to establish a permanent endowment to support the Mary and Maisie Gibson Institute Professorship. Appointments to the Professorship will be administered by the President at Georgia Tech within any academic discipline.
Mr. Gibson will initially fund the commitment with a gift of 15,000 shares of
The Technology Business Incubator (TBI), National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C), will organise a one-day workshop on `Growth options and financial options for new entrepreneurs' on January 10.
Pankaj Khandelwal, consultant in the areas of technology commercialisation, technology diagnostics, entrepreneur development, technology research and expert databases, will be the main speaker. Mr. Khandelwal is also associated with the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, Mr. Khandelwal has worked with McKinsey, international consulting firm, for a few years.
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs, is seeking an average of nearly 100 business plans in the next two years in Ahmedabad.
Mahapatra Badri, executive director of Tie-Ahmedabad, said about 50 students from Ahmedabad, due to its organization of ideas.
Students of the city with innovative business models in ICT / ITES, health and education. Normally, business plans require an investment of R 2.00000 at 25.00000, "he said.
Students and representatives of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information and Communication Technology, National Institute of Design and its incubator, Entreprenuership Development Institute of India and its Alumni Association, Indian Institute of
Anyone who’s applied to college has dealt with the frustration of standardize testing. With the cost of failure so high, parents and grads continue to spend a lot of cash on test preparation to ensure the best results. However, there’s a crop of web startups popping up to ease the pain and we’re all benefiting from the competition.
Prepme is one online test prep company coming out of the University of Chicago’s business incubator. Founded in 2001, the company offers test preparation for the SAT, PSAT, and ACT, using an adaptive algorithm to customize the preparation course for each student.
Unlike Kaplan’s
Kolkata, December 29: A meeting of minds across the seas via a friendship board, some innovative ideas about organising farmers to grow and process aloe vera and a penchant for business plans. Thus was spawned the winning idea for the annual business plan competition of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) this year, the core of the i2I entrepreneurship festival.
Some students of a private institute in Kolkata got together with likeminded folks from National University of Singapore, who they had met on Orkut, to come up with the B-plan that won the Rs 20 lakh seed money put up by
The Technology Business Incubator (TBI), National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), is organizing a day of the workshop on the theme "Growth options and financial possibilities for new entrepreneurs", January 10.
Pankaj Khandelwal, a consultant in the areas of technology commercialization, diagnostic technologies, entrepreneurs, development, the expert in research and technology databases, is the main speaker. Mr. Khandelwal is also in conjunction with the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. An Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, M. Khandelwal worked at McKinsey, the international consulting firm, for a few years.
Pune, December 18: NEHMENS the first stage, for entrepreneurs, scientists, National Chemical Laboratories (NCL) opened Rs 5 crore Venture Technology Centre incubator. "The objective of the centre is to enable researchers at the beginning of entrepreneurship for economically viable projects and discoveries," S Sivaram NCL director, said Monday.
The idea is to remove bureaucratic problems at the beginning of a new business and at the same time, they allow you to work on their projects. "The scientists working in laboratories and on their work with the creation of a new start-up," he said.
Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research RA Mashelkar Director
The Atlanta-based graduate program Terry College of Business has replaced the college's Evening MBA program and will be known as the fast-track Professional MBA at University of Georgia. The Program will target working professionals who are rising quickly in their organizations and are looking for an MBA program that is going to help them advance their careers without any interference in their jobs. The program is currently accepting applications for the fall 2009 semester. This college will hold class sessions on weeknights and select Saturdays and will still enroll students at Terry's Buckhead or Lawrenceville locations.
"We're very confident that