Posted on April 2, 2009 by cartier@bio
The economic news this week wasn’t all doom and gloom – Google announced Google Ventures, a new venture capital fund that will finance biotechnology start ups, among other things.
According to Google Blog:
At its core, Google Ventures is charged with finding and helping to develop exceptional start-ups. We’ll be focusing on early stage investments across [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by cartier@bio
We’d like to welcome readers of SBIRGA to our blog. If you have read our material, you will understand that we remain neutral on the issue of grant amounts. We do, however, support agency flexibility. It should be left to the experts to determine what award amounts are appropriate for promising new projects.
This is [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by cartier@bio
What is State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI)?
It is a national nonprofit organization based outside of Columbus, OH, that is dedicated to leading, supporting, and strengthening public-private efforts to improve regional economies through science, technology and innovation. Part of SSTI’s mission is to serve as a neutral convener for discussion and advancement of key issues [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2008 by cartier@bio
Putting the “I” back — that is the “I” in innovation. While we consider SBIR program to be critical to the commercialization of biotechnology for our industry, it is clear that others do not share this view ordiffer on the ways in which this problem should be fixed. For example, Kristie Prinz wrote [...]
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