Latin America has outstanding universities and institutes conducting research in ground breaking technologies. Many times this research is aimed at understanding and solving major local and regional problems. Local institutions have a good chance of finding viable solutions given their understanding of the problematic, but governments, universities and organizations involved in technology transfer and innovation...
Securing capital for a startup to develop its technology for commercialization is not easy. Federal grants such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) have become critical in helping small businesses mature their technologies and bring them to market. The SBIR/STTR program, America’s Seed Fund, provides access to the...
The Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) facilitates the development and commercialization of ideas emanating from The University of California Riverside (UCR) and the community for the benefit of society. The licensing of proteasome and immunoproteasome inhibitors to Lodo Therapeutics is an example of UCR OTP’s success as a bridge between academia and industry. On September...
In July of 2020, UC Riverside announced a major discovery in the fight against Huanglongbing (HLB, also known as citrus greening disease). HLB is one of the most serious citrus plant diseases in the world which has already devastated 90% of Florida’s citrus groves and is threatening Southern California’s $7 billion citrus industry that contributes...
The 2020 Know Hub Ignition Entrepreneurship Training program, delivered in partnership between Know Hub Chile and UC Riverside's Office of Technology Partnerships, launches this week. 2020 is the second year of the government-funded Chilean program which aims to strengthen and promote technology-based entrepreneurship in the country. This year’s program received 66 applications for 16 openings...
On June 10th, 2020 - Valtteri Salomaki, the co-founder of EDGE Sound Research a startup developing new audio systems for immersive entertainment companies allowing users to both feel and hear sound in High Definition has been selected to participate in the LaunchPad Summer Startup Fellowship , during which college students from the U.S. and Ireland...
The Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) at UC Riverside has awarded $250,000 in grants and expert business mentorship to seven (7) Proof of Concept (POC) faculty recipients to further the development and commercialization of their technologies. Funding for these projects was provided by Eurosemillas, S.A., a Spain-based leader in the commercialization of agriculture innovations, through...
Friday, November 8th marked the completion of Know Hub Chile’s inaugural “Know Hub Ignition” program in partnership with UC Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP), which took teams of Chilean entrepreneurs through an intensive training program in customer discovery and commercialization, culminating with a week-long immersion in Riverside, California. UCR and its partner, Know Hub...
UC Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships signed a collaboration agreement with Know Hub Chile, an association of 11 universities and research institutions in Chile to accelerate technology transfer through licensing efforts. As part of the agreement, both UCR and Know Hub Chile will introduce each other’s agricultural crop plant varieties and cultivars to potential partners...
A series of campus programs for undergraduates including workshops, networking events, and one-on-one mentoring will start this fall. October 17, 2019 Student entrepreneurs at UC Riverside received an infusion of fresh energy recently when the campus joined the LaunchPad Powered by Techstars network. Starting this fall, a series of campus programs for undergraduates, led by...
National Science Foundation Promoting the Acceleration of Basic Research into Marketable Innovations By Martin Kleckner III PhD MBA, Office of Technology Partnerships Entrepreneur-in-Residence “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” At the March 12 SBIR/STTRCON19 presented by U C Riverside’s Office of Technology Partnerships, the NSF’s Jesus Soriano Molla PhD MD...
The University of San Diego (USD), in partnership with Cleantech San Diego and California State University, San Marcos, has been awarded a three-year federally matched $1.5 million i6 Regional Innovation Strategies grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (under the Department of Commerce) to scale up the capacity of the San Diego Regional Energy Innovation...
MURRIETA, CALIF. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 26, 2019 Murrieta Genomics, the genomic sequencing business incubator, has executed a Memorandum of Understanding with UC Riverside’s Research and Economic Development Office to assist researchers and entrepreneurs in developing and commercializing genomic-related applications in healthcare, agriculture and other areas of social importance. The commercialization of intellectual property from universities is...
Riverside, CA, February 12, 2019 – Globe Biomedical has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for approximately $225,000, to conduct research and development (R&D) work on a Wearable Blindness Prevention System. The system being developed will provide real-time monitoring of eye pressure, thereby tracking a patient's risk of...
The Office of Research and Economic Development at UC Riverside has awarded three faculty research projects proof of concept grants to help them move new technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace. This year, the office received 11 applications and selected six for final review. “We look for projects that promise to solve one or...
UC Riverside’s Small Business Development Center has received a $25,000 donation from MUFG Union Bank Foundation in support of its programs aiding technology entrepreneurs. The business center, which opened in downtown Riverside in April, is part of the Entrepreneurial Proof of Concept and Innovation Center, or Riverside EPIC, which provides resources for training, mentorship, and...
Milo Sensors (UCSB), Sensorygen (UCR), and Ateios (UCSD) present to 75 Fortune 500 CIOs and CTOs and share $150,000 in Seed funding. 18 University of California companies showcased. November 9, 2018 – Menlo Park, CA – Vertical Venture Partners (“VVP”) announced today the three Seed funding winners from across the University of California’s 10 campus...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - New educational nonprofit organization Project TechXploration has started up in Riverside, California with assistance from ExCITE Riverside, a business acceleration program supported by the city and county of Riverside and University of California, Riverside. The organization was established to promote careers and diversity in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics to underrepresented...
