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EVENT Aug 30: Entrepreneur Rob Arnold Shares “the Roadmap from Innovation to Start-up”
Join us on Aug 30 for a talk on navigating the road to start-up. Sure, inspiration and hard work are essential ingredients of a successful start-up, but so is a proven roadmap for getting from point A to B. In C4C’s upcoming talk, Rob Arnold, former President and CEO of Geospiza, Inc. and current C4C entrepreneur-in-residence, walks us through the stages to transform your promising… View More
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11 University of Washington Professors Recognized for Successful Commercialization
University of Washington President Michael Young today announced the appointment of 11 new members to the university’s prestigious Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows (EFFs) program. This year’s appointees, who will join seven continuing Faculty Fellows, have been selected for their success in translating their research into products and therapies, initiating groundbreaking programs for translation, or collaborating with industry, as well as their ability and motivation to… View More
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UW Launches Technology Start-up Incubator, aims to double start-ups over three years
The University of Washington today unveiled a new business incubator that will provide startup businesses access to critical lab and office space on the UW campus for their work. The incubator is one key element in a larger commercialization initiative announced by President Michael Young today that will double the number of startups produced by the UW – from an average of 10 a year to 20 – during the next three years. Continue reading … View More
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UW project that recycles forest slash piles selected for NSF commercialization grant
Students at the University of Washington have teamed up on a startup that promises to turn slash piles of forest refuse into biochar, a crumbly charcoal-like product for farmers that helps their soil hold water and nutrients. The National Science Foundation chose the project for an Innovation Corps grant in October. I-Corps is a new NSF program launched this fall to support commercialization of technologies developed at universities. With the help of former C4C Entrepreneur-in-Residence Jeffry Canin, the student-led team developed a business plan that brought together people from across the UW campus. Continue reading … View More
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Professor Buddy Ratner’s Latest Device Delivers Nutrition Diagnosis in Minutes
UW Bioengineering Professor Buddy Ratner believes his lab’s latest device could be a powerful tool, capable of addressing health and child development issues by delivering a blood test in minutes to some of the most remote parts of the globe. The results can then be displayed on a mobile phone or tablet computer within minutes, instead of the 24 hours typically required. Continue reading … View More
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Tom Clement leads Cardiac Insight in targeting stroke risk
Tom Clement has a strong history as one of the region’s top medical device entrepreneurs. In 1998 he co-founded Pathway Medical Technologies and served as CEO until 2008. Tom was also previously a founding employee at Heart Technology, which grew to more than $100 million in annual revenue and 550 employees before becoming acquired by Boston Scientific. Tom joined Cardiac Insight in 2011 after leading… View More
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UW’s Oren Etzioni Calls for a Search Shake-up
University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Professor and 2011 UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow Oren Etzioni’s recent article in the Journal Nature calls for researchers to think outside the keyword box to improve Internet search engines. In 2003, Etzioni’s research into more intelligent search algorithms led him to launch Farecast – a web service that aggregates data of airline ticket fares and predicts future… View More
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Shwetak Patel Featured in July Cover Story of Wired Magazine and Named a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Wired magazine profiled UW Computer Science and Engineering Professor Shwetak Patel, focusing on the research that led him to develop his startup Zensi, now a part of Belkin, for their July cover story. The story explores current applications of feedback loops – a process that Wired summarizes as providing “people with information about their actions in real time, then giving them a chance to change… View More
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Voltaic Electric Vehicle Drive Train Takes First Place at UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
The winners of this year’s University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge were announced at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall this past week. The winning projects were selected by a panel of more than 90 industry representatives from both public and private enterprises, including Boeing, Siemens and Sound Transit. The grand prize went to a project developed by UW undergraduate engineers who invented an electric vehicle… View More
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University of Washington Announces New Entrepreneurial Fellows Program
SEATTLE – A new program initiated by Interim President Dr. Phyllis Wise recognizes the University of Washington’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers. Eight UW faculty members appointed as members of a prestigious group of UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows (EFFs) have achieved success in translating their research into products and therapies, initiated groundbreaking programs for translation, or collaboration with industry. The program and the inaugural EFFs… View More
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