News Round Up (June 4)

Posted on June 4, 2008 by cartier@bio

Kickstarting Startups with SBIRs

Editor’s Letter: Capital Offense

Stemina Biomarker receives $150,000 SBIR grant

Boulder-based OptTek focuses on workforce

Lt. Governor Fisher announces $2.7 million in Third Frontier grants Eight companies awarded research commercialization funds

The NIH Conference Comes to Atlanta

DOE awards SBIR grant to Athena Biotechnologies for R&D into 10% drop in ethanol processing by developing heat-tolerant bacteria

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Washington Business Journal on SBIR

Posted on May 9, 2008 by cartier@bio

Washington Business Journal
The House passed legislation that would make small businesses majority-owned by venture capital firms eligible for Small Business Innovation Research awards.
Through the SBIR program, 2.5 percent of the outside research budgets of 11 federal agencies — including the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health — is allocated for small [...]

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Putting the “I” Back into SBIR

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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