CoreMechanics defines CoreForm as a wearable exercise product to prevent and stabilize musculoskeletal injury. The expertise needed to refine the device and measure its effectiveness is found within several disciplines at URI.
Unbeknownst to most consumers, roughly 30 percent of the potatoes harvested spoil before they reach a grocery store shelf. Boise State and Idaho State University researchers were recently awarded a one-year $413,681 Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission (IGEM) grant to develop a wireless sensor network that would be able to detect temperature, humidity levels, and carbon dioxide and ammonia levels in real time, to help with early detection of potato rot.
The Ph.D. students say Alcinous Pharmaceuticals uses computational software available free on the Internet to sort through 40 million possible drug-binding targets.
DHS S&T's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has awarded $1.3 million to 12 small businesses for 13 Phase I contract awards to develop technology solutions to Homeland Security challenges.
University of Virginia Darden School of Business Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming 22 new ventures to its 2017 Summer Incubator program.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation launched its Business Innovation and Climate Change Initiative to address one of the most singular global challenges of the 21st century
In one of the first crowdfunding studies focusing on social enterprises, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found that how a pitch is voiced and worded is much more important for social entrepreneurs than for their commercial counterparts.
Merrick Rosenberg, CEO and co-founder of Take Flight Learning (TFL), the leading DISC training company in the United States, is the recipient of the 2017 HR Consultant of the Year Award.
Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka and her co-authors detail why organizations should consider design thinking
Southern Research announced today that Lillie Ryans has joined the Birmingham-based organization as director of contracts.
Since first announcing plans to expand into the Washington, D.C., area just over a year ago, the School has successfully launched a fully enrolled Executive MBA cohort, placed 10 staff members on location in newly leased office space, laid the groundwork for deepening Executive Education relationships and programs, collaborated on vital research, and brought together top practitioners for a host of programming.
Success after law school doesn’t always mean practicing law, and J.B. Pritzker, co-founder of the Pritzker Group and Illinois Democratic candidate for governor, and Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871 Chicago, are great examples of how a legal education can offer an advantage in the business world.
Babson College’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® and Women Entrepreneurs Boston (WE BOS) invite all to attend their annual Summer Soiree on June 7—a free event to meet with, and learn more about, women entrepreneurs in the community and learn more about the program. WIN Lab applications are open until June 30.
On May 24, 2017, Babson VP for Programming and Community Outreach Jane C. Edmonds, along with the Boston Chamber of Commerce President James Rooney, Mayor Marty Walsh, and 50 Boston business and civic leaders took a trip to Washington, DC to discuss issues of race and economic mobility.
The Darden School of Business has announced the launch of the Business Innovation and Climate Change Initiative, an ambitious new project spearheaded by Darden’s Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation aimed at exploring how business innovation can be a source for pragmatic solutions to one of the world’s most urgent issues.
Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® just wrapped up its fourth year with two grand finale events in Boston and Miami, adding 37 leading women entrepreneurs to its growing alumni base. WIN Lab® participants have collectively raised nearly $5.5 million in funding since program launch in 2013. The 2016-2017 Boston cohort has raised over $1.9 million, and the WIN Lab’s first Miami entrepreneurs have raised over $1.5 million.
Two Babson graduate alumni businesses—DropZone for Veterans and GEMS Boxes—have been named finalists in the 2017 MassChallenge Boston accelerator program.
Two Olin College teams will spend the summer in an intensive 10-week venture accelerator at Babson College.
Ayan Agarwal, an Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy student and Hinsdale native, won first prize at the first-ever regional business pitch competition , “The Next Launch,” on Wednesday, May 17.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory today welcomed the first cohort of innovators to join Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast region's first entrepreneurial research and development program based at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory.
UVA Darden alumni Charles Foster, Sally Robling and Bill Hawkins joined Alumni Career Services Executive Director Jen Coleman for a discussion on the responsibility of corporate boards.
The number of women chief executives at the largest 150 Massachusetts nonprofits grew in recent years, accounting for 26 percent of those jobs, up three percent from two years ago. These findings were recently released in the report, Modest Gains, Robust Benefits, as part of the third biennial Census of Women Directors and Chief Executives of Massachusetts’ Largest Nonprofit Organizations—issued by The Boston Club in collaboration with local researchers, including Babson College Professors Danna Greenberg and Wendy Murphy.
Jefferson Lab/Jefferson Science Associates has a long-standing commitment to doing business with and mentoring small businesses. That commitment and support received national recognition at the 16th Annual Dept. of Energy Small Business Forum and Expo held May 16-18, 2017 in Kansas City, Mo.
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC), widely considered the premier conference for entrepreneurial research, was established in 1981 to provide a dynamic venue where academics and real-world practitioners link theory and practice, and to encourage and increase quality research in entrepreneurship
The Wichita State University student innovation team “Out Cold” has won the Koch Innovation Challenge grand championship. “Out Cold” is a customizable pillow with air chambers that helps reduce sleep discomfort. Team members won an opportunity to represent WSU at the National Conference & Pitch Competition, hosted by The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) this fall.
Babson, ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship, has announced the 14 teams that will be participating in the ninth Summer Venture Program (SVP) through the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship. This year the program will be held entirely in the new Babson Boston campus at 100 High Street.
Higher education allowed all three Porto siblings to turn the business their parents created into a flourishing, 21st-century phenomenon.
George L. Pla, a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist whose business and civic activities have helped communities across California, will be awarded a Cal State LA Presidential Medallion during Commencement 2017.
Two videos originally produced for the Tom Tom Festival, which showcase four startups that are recent i.Lab at UVA Incubator alumni.
A Ph.D. candidate at the UT Austin College of Pharmacy received first place in the 2017 Spring Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition for her company, NovoThelium.
In Babson College’s Van Winkle Hall, students have worked with the college to establish their very own “full-stack” living-learning community. Student entrepreneurs, software developers, and designers now live purposefully as neighbors in Babson’s E-tower, CODE, and theStudio—modeling that of a modern-day startup.
Professor Alex Cowan explains why agile thinking is so important, even essential, to innovation in organizations — in the very near future even more than the present.
The Lewis Institute at Babson College honored two entrepreneurs who have both impacted significant large scale change, thereby influencing institutional and societal mindsets at the 2017 Social Innovator awards. This year’s recipients were Michael Sorrell, President of Paul Quinn College, and Rosanne Haggerty, President and CEO of Community Solutions.
This summer, May 30 to August 4, Babson College's San Francisco campus will be offering the Babson San Francisco Summer Catalyst by Belcham. This program gives students and alumni the opportunity to connect, disrupt, and build in San Francisco through a partnership with BelCham, a government independent not-for-profit with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurial excellence in the US.
Twenty-four local startups will compete for $50K in cash prizes at CSU Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) Joel and Dena Gambord Business & Information Technology Building Friday May 12, 2017 at 3 p.m.
Two Wichita State University students placed first in the curriculum category at VentureWell's OPEN 2017 conference in Washington recently, finishing ahead of professors, administrators and faculty who were all presenting ideas on how to teach entrepreneurship.
Danny Bakewell, Sr., founder and chairman of The Bakewell Company, one of the largest African American commercial real estate development groups in the western United States, will receive a California State University honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) during its 2017 commencement.
DHS S&T has awarded $9.7 million to 12 small businesses for 13 Phase II contracts through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
The New Mexico State University system launched the public phase of its $125 million comprehensive campaign, “Ignite Aggie Discovery,” by announcing a $2.5 million gift from the Hunt Family Foundation to benefit Arrowhead Center, NMSU’s entrepreneurship and innovation hub.
BGSU graduate Fatima Camara is applying her fashion and entrepreneurship skills to launch her own fashion line
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB), the world’s largest global education network, has recognized Babson College’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship for its commitment to creating and incubating cutting-edge business innovations and fostering entrepreneurship in the next generation of business leaders. Babson is one of 35 business schools around the globe to earn the Entrepreneurship Spotlight Challenge distinction.
UIC's Innovation Center has generated more than $2.6 million in revenue working with corporations including Caterpillar Inc.
Salisbury University President Janet Dudley-Eshbach announced a $5.5 million gift from Dave and Patsy Rommel to benefit a new Center for Entrepreneurship in downtown Salisbury and support other future activities of the campus and the Perdue School of Business.
Darden School of Business Dean Beardsley’s video interview with Narayana Murthy. They discuss entrepreneurship, the importance of respect, the opportunities to grow India’s economy and the responsibility of corporations to embrace innovation and ensure society does not suffer.
Babson College, ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship since 1995 and a national leader in education return on investment, continues its innovations in affordability by offering all students an accelerated path to obtaining their undergraduate business degree.
The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with Sandia National Laboratories to speed the commercialization of next-generation technologies and gain a global competitive advantage for the U.S.
A feature exploring how many big businesses are not taking advantage of Big Data, plus a slideshow on five companies that are doing it right.
Babson College, the top-ranked college for entrepreneurship, has named influential Bostonian, entrepreneur, and angel investor David Chang the Director of its Summer Venture Program (SVP)—Babson’s world-renowned 10-week startup accelerator.
Features UVA Darden students Maximillian Huc (MBA '17) and Sam Boochever (MBA '17) - cofounders of the celebrity connection app 1Degree
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