Not exact matches
Cornell recently opened a
tech campus in New York City to be closer to the startup scene and is pouring more resources
into its biotech labs and
incubators.
Other developments for O3 was its acceptance
into Tech Lab Paak, a startup
incubator for Recruit holdings, one of the largest conglomerates in Japan.
Scott's current company has three divisions: a sustainability blog network that includes the world's biggest clean energy website and reached over 5 million readers in December 2013 alone; Pono Home, a turnkey and franchiseable green home consulting service that won entrance
into the clean
tech incubator known as Energy Excelerator; and Cost of Solar, a solar lead generation service to connect interested homeowners and solar contractors.
Last year, the Coalition for Queens worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City Regional Economic Development Council to incorporate Queens
tech companies and the area's start - up community
into the state's long - term planning, and the group is urging Cuomo to make the borough the site of a business
incubator and an Innovation Hot Spot.
The budget also creates 10 «Innovation Hot Spots,» where high -
tech incubators would spin off research from universities
into private businesses.
BENANOVA moved
into its new Laboratory at NC State University's
Tech Incubator located on Centennial Campus.
The Desolenator team, led by CEO William Janssen, inventor of the technology, took second place in the Climate KiC Clean Launch Pad 2014 competition, as well as been supported by iXspark, a clean
tech incubator, and now they want to finish development, do field - testing, and go
into production with their device, so they've turned to Indiegogo to raise the necessary capital.
Thomson Reuters has brought blockchain - based legal arbitration platform, Kleros,
into its
Incubator Labs start - up programme in what appears to be an unusual step for the legal
tech and information giant.
The move is an interesting one as at present law firm
incubators have tended to focus on helping lawyers and legal
tech start - ups engage with each other for mutual benefit, bringing companies directly
into the mix and at this early stage, takes things one step further.
That trend parallels increased attention and investment in the legal technology sector by the large corporate players in the industry (e.g., Lexis's new legal
tech accelerator, Thompson Reuters Labs's new (partially) legal
tech - focused focused
incubator) and law firms» own internal efforts to develop and incorporate new technologies
into their practices and menu of client services (e.g., Davis Wright Tremaine's DWT De Novo initiative, Bryan Cave's TechX department).
Some firms, eg, Mishcon De Reya, have created
incubators to bring legal
tech into the system.
In this week's Weekend Reads, Vox gives us a taste of universal basic incomes, National Geographic breaks down the country — literally —
into economic «megaregions,» and Quartz takes you inside Google's Alphabet's Jigsaw, a
tech incubator that wants to make the world a better place and definitely isn't Google.
Starta Accelerator, an early - stage investor and business
incubator, announced it is holding a «crowdsale» to secure funding to help start - up
tech companies expand
into the US.
The news formed part of an active month for Google on the continent, with the company also partnering Nigerian innovation
incubator CcHub to run a European tour aimed at drumming up investment for
tech startups, and accepting six African companies
into its Launchpad accelerator programme.
Orange County, Calif. - based The Irvine Company, a real estate investment firm, entered
into a similar venture with start - up accelerator EvoNexus, providing free space for two
tech incubators: The Vine San Diego, in a downtown office tower for software developers, and a La Jolla / UTC
incubator for hardware developers.
The Mastercraft building presents a compelling case study: once a manufacturing facility, it has been turned
into an
incubator for small businesses with largely
tech - oriented tenants.
Google has also touched on real estate with its acquisition of smart home company Nest Labs, and its investments
into housing
tech startups such as Auction.com, HomeLight and CommonFloor via an
incubator fund.