Climate change and other factors such as a decreasing amount of available land for cultivation are affecting traditional agricultural production systems that in turn negatively impact our food supply and ability to feed a growing global population. It has become imperative that new agricultural innovations be created and brought to the market to ensure a...
UC Riverside and climate start-up Pluton Biosciences have partnered to advance the development of technology that increases a plant’s capability to capture CO2 and sequester it in the soil. Commercialization of the technology has the potential to create more sustainable agricultural practices and increase crop yields as an additional outcome of enhanced carbon capture, said...
UCR Program Exposes Inland Empire High School Students to Clean Tech Entrepreneurship Career Pathway 120 high school students will receive training on technology entrepreneurship applied to sustainable agriculture and sustainable transportation Technology entrepreneurship is usually associated with innovation at research universities and technology centers in the coastal counties of California. It is widely reported that...
The University of California Riverside (UCR) through its UCR EPIC program, together with its partner Eurosemillas, are launching the UCR EPIC-Eurosemillas Incubation Challenge to support deep technology-based startup companies from Latin America (LATAM) in the exploration of opportunities to commercialize their innovations in the US Market. The Challenge is a response to the needs of...
A start-up that originated from a UC Riverside professor’s research is among the companies cited in a recent scientific journal article in Nature Nanotechnology as being at the forefront of developing nanoneedle technology. The authors call Basilard BioTech one of the “major players in the evolution of a viable nanoneedle technology for sensing and clinical...
UCR's Office of Technology Partnerships is offering a new program of advanced technical assistance to Inland Empire small businesses to help them create new products for growth and competitiveness, accelerating the recovery of the region from the COVID pandemic. This program, named TACIES (Technical Assistance to COVID impacted Inland Empire Small Business), provides educational resources...
The James Irvine Foundation has awarded the University of California Riverside (UCR) Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) a $1.9 million grant to jumpstart the university’s efforts to build an inclusive, more equitable technology innovation ecosystem. The OASIS Accelerator aims to expand opportunities for Inland Empire innovators and entrepreneurs, in particular those from underrepresented groups, to...
When Mark Adams left his job in 2011 to start Inviscid with four colleagues, he took a leap of faith hoping that the product they were developing would succeed within the Autism therapy community. They bootstrapped the company putting in the time, effort, and their own capital to develop software that helps Applied Behavioral Analysis...
FarmSense, Inc. and SiLi-ion, Inc. were selected as winners of the inaugural Riverside Angel Summit, a partnership between UC Riverside, the City of Riverside, and community members. The two startups emerged from an initial group of over 50 companies that applied to the competition. Each winner received $42,000 from Citrus Seeds LLC angel investors. FarmSense...
FarmSense, Inc. and SiLi-ion, Inc. were selected as winners of the inaugural Riverside Angel Summit, a partnership between UC Riverside, the City of Riverside, and community members. The two startups emerged from an initial group of over 50 companies that applied to the competition. Each winner received $42,000 from Citrus Seeds LLC angel investors. FarmSense...
The National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, has bestowed its top honors on four professors from the University of California, Riverside. One, Richard Schrock, has been elected a fellow, and three — Hailing Jin, Cengiz Ozkan, and Anandasankar Ray — have been elected senior members of the academy. The NAI Fellows program highlights inventors who...
UC Riverside, the Government of Madeira, Portugal, and Premivalor, founders of the H-INNOVA and INNCYBER innovation hubs in Lisbon solidified a partnership aimed at expanding access to opportunities and support for entrepreneurs from the United States and Portugal. The agreement proposes collaborations in innovation ecosystem development; establishment of living demonstration sites and laboratories; joint commercialization...
The Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped the UC Riverside (UCR) team of the Office of Technology Partnerships from bringing international entrepreneurs to Riverside to showcase the region’s ecosystem to help them launch into the US market.
Four startups founded in Riverside County and developing with support of the UC Riverside Office of Technology Partnerships were finalists competing for up to $100,000 in the first Riverside Angel Summit, or RAS. The finalists are: GattaCo, Inc.: Developed in-home clinical quality blood/plasma sampling. SiLi-ion: Developed a silicon nanoparticle-driven lithium-ion battery. FarmSense, Inc.: Invented an...
A Conversation with a UCR Undergraduate The UC Riverside (UCR) Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB) Life Science Incubator on campus re-opened its doors in January 2021 in accordance with research ramp-up guidelines brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Incubator is home to regional and faculty startups and companies that need laboratory space to advance their...
UC Riverside has received a $900,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, or EDA, to provide technical assistance to small businesses to bolster the region's ability to withstand future economic disruptions. The EDA grant will be matched with $416,461 in local investment. With this grant, UCR will provide technical assistance...
The Riverside Angel Summit initiative led by UC Riverside in partnership with the City of Riverside and local community leaders aims to strengthen the angel investment culture in Inland Southern California by connecting investors to high-quality, vetted entrepreneurs. The program seeks to demystify the process of equity investment by providing interested potential angel investors a...
UC Riverside (UCR) has been a National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps site since 2017 and now, as part of a re-structuring of the program by the NSF which brings sites together in “Hubs”, will transition to be part of the I-Corps Hub West Region, broadening UCR’s program reach to provide innovators a wider network of...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu ) – University of California, Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships (UCR) has entered into a partnership with Irvine, CA firm GotoMarketUSA to help bring technologies from Scandinavia to the United States. Since 2016 the UCR team has worked in Latin America providing innovation ecosystem development support, entrepreneurial training, startup incubation in...
The University of California Riverside (UCR) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have joined efforts to accelerate commercialization of technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean through the development of the COMUNITT portal . COMUNITT, as the name implies, aims to build a strong community of technology transfer and entrepreneurship training professionals in the...
