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SBA Announces 14 New Awards (One in Montana) for Regional Innovation Network to Drive Nationwide Small Business Growth, Job Creation and Innovation

Shadow Ridge Analytics https://shadowridgeanalytics.com/ will support small businesses in the advanced engineering and critical materials industries in Southwest Montana.

University of Montana Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Core Facility Open House – Friday afternoon September 6 – Missoula

The CBSD core facilities provide instrumentation for protein production and purification, structure determination by X-ray and electron diffraction methods, high-resolution fluorescence imaging, mass spectrometry and proteomics, and computer-aided drug discovery. They are staffed by PhD level scientists who can assist with experimental design and implementation to meet your research and development needs.

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

Academic institutions incubate novel ideas and are important innovation partners for companies, but getting products out of universities and onto the market can be challenging. A study by Maria Roche illustrates how researchers might be getting in their own way.

Billionaires spending a fortune to lure scientists away from universities

The wrinkle is that for decades, many drug discoveries have not just originated at colleges and universities, but also produced profits that helped fill their endowment coffers. The University of Pennsylvania, for one, has said it earned hundreds of millions of dollars for research into mRNA vaccines used against Covid-19. Under this model, any such windfall would remain private.

How to Build Tech Hubs in the American Heartland

Regions in the US interior are well-positioned to revive their manufacturing industries with new technology.

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Blocky – Startup with Montana State University ties wins $1 million to commercialize software

Following up on a first round of SBIR funding the company received in 2018, the new grant will allow Blocky to refine its software and expand the range of its applications and services, which focus on increasing throughput and decreasing costs of blockchain transactions, according to Heinecke, Blocky’s CEO.

University of Montana vaccine research expands, The UM Center for Translational Medicinesoon to conduct clinical trials

“Finding the right students and staff who are interested in working on vaccines has been great,” Evans said. “UM provides us with great students and a great environment.”

Why tech transfer brings companies ‘more than innovation’

Technology transfer is more common than you might think, in part because the government has thousands of available technologies (patents) covering markets where thousands of companies do business.

Term Sheet Recommendations for Launching University Life Science Startups

Here is a set of best practices, meant to benefit universities and VCs more broadly.