After stints as a quant trader for Natixis, Kil was recruited back to Sentiment Alpha, which was ultimately
spun out of the research project.
Not exact matches
In 1998, he
spun ImmGenics Pharmaceuticals
out of research at UBC and raised $ 20 million before the firm was acquired by Abgenix Inc., a collaborator
out of California.
However, Astro Teller, X's leader, insists that cybersecurity has been on the backburner for several years at X. Creating
research projects to tackle the planet's biggest problems that can be
spun into independent companies has always been the goal, not just creating
out -
of - this world technology for the sake
of grabbing headlines.
Currently, companies that are testing autonomous vehicles — such as Waymo (
spun out of Google's
research division), Uber, General Motors, and others — have to make their own maps.
The corporation was
spun out of the Ontario Institute for Cancer
Research (OICR) to develop and advance late pre-clinical, Phase I or early Phase II potential products.
Founded in 2009, Sparq is a
spin -
out of power electronics
research performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Inno
research performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada
Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Inno
Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Innovations.
1) I (Whitney Tilson) attended the always - excellent Ira Sohn conference on Monday and, as often happens, Bill Ackman and David Einhorn stole the show with two outstanding, incredibly - well -
researched ideas, long Howard Hughes (which has been one
of my largest positions since it was
spun out of GGP when it emerged from bankruptcy after the credit crisis) and short Core Laboratories (CLB), respectively.
As it turned
out, this «
research paper» was nothing but a «review
of literature,» a repacking
of what others had already written, with the academics putting their own negative
spin on it.
Peter Facey, director
of research, said: «The three major parties all committed themselves to democratic reform
of the House
of Lords at the last general election; they can not
spin or dissemble themselves
out of this commitment.
And
research spun out of neuroscientist Linda Watkins's group at the University
of Colorado in Boulder is testing a new pain drug that may tame glia in the spinal cord by blocking a signaling protein on their surface.
Renovo is a Manchester University
spin out, founded by Mark Ferguson and Sharon O'Kane, that is
researching prevention
of scarring and wound healing.
«I am very pleased that this exciting result emerged in a cooperation
of a doctoral candidate
out of my group at the Graduate School
of Excellence «Materials Science in Mainz» together with co-workers from Kaiserslautern and our colleagues from Konstanz, with whom we collaborate within the Priority Program «
Spin Caloric Transport» funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG),» emphasized Professor Mathias Kläui, director
of the MAINZ Graduate School
of Excellence based at Mainz University.
The new ideas coming
out of academic
research groups tend to be developed by small, private
spin - off companies before they are bought up or licensed by larger companies.
The university's technology transfer office, UST Inc., has helped churn
out nine
of the 33
spin - off companies from U
of S
research pursuits in the last 10 years, some
of which have been biotech related.
Singer singled
out active learning as an educational strategy that
research shows is effective, demonstrating the example
of a bicycle wheel that could be held by its axis while being
spun.
Their Boise, Idaho - based
research institute, funded via technology
spin - offs coming
out of their work, aimed at solving foundational problems in cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
To increase the proportion
of invention disclosures, patents, licenses and
spin outs recorded by Ireland that are linked to SFI
research
«Southern
Research also had notable success with the creation,
spin -
out and ultimately the sale
of Brookwood Pharmaceuticals.
The tangible outcomes
of the Integrated Imaging Institute's
research projects are the publication
of research journal papers, and the development
of software and tools that can be
spun out to the wider imaging community.
The company, which was
spun out of The Scripps
Research Institute in San Diego, CA, is based on the work
out of Dr. Daniel Salomon's lab, where he continues to lead the R&D efforts.
A new innovation fund is investing in start - up and
spin - off companies born
out of the public
research sector that have potentially life - changing, high - yielding ideas.
But theres good news, whatever your level
of obsessive compulsive behavior: Over the last decade or so, a flurry
of research (some with high - tech imaging tools that let doctors peer into the brains
of people with OCD) has yielded a better understanding
of why some peoples disturbing thoughts and odd habits
spin out of control.
If Apple made a bid for
Research in Motion, it could take a leaf
out of Google's book by
spinning out the business to avoid antitrust conflicts, and spark a real smartphone war.
In the past, they've put
out such
research reports as I thought I wanted an ETF or how top ten active funds are allegedly better than index funds that for the most part tried to pass along marketing
spin as serious
research and provided us with plenty
of grist for the mill.
During this time he co-founded a number
of digital start - ups and a technology
spin -
out from British Telecom's
research and development labs, which was acquired by a large Silicon Valley tech corporation.
In one sense, though, we do agree with Muller's quote: nobody has stolen his private emails and
spun them
out of context to make his
research look bad.
-- Regardless
of whether any specific approach works
out, all that original
research will pay for itself in
spin - off technology, even if it turns
out, by hindsight, that CO2 remediation wasn't necessary.
UK universities lead the way in many types
of research and development, and by creating
spin -
out businesses they are able to commercialise this work, which is much more desirable than seeing the hard work picked up by businesses that had no role in its development.
Success breeds success, and with professional advisers, investors, and Scotland's universities and
research institutes all part
of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, a successful
spin out company can have a beneficial effect for everyone.
Spun out of bioengineering
research at UC Berkeley, Correlia Biosystems is able to analyze microsamples
of blood, making it «easier to get more data from a tiny drop.»