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Following rapid growth, Medifast opens new R&D hub in Owings Mills
With the opening of a research and development hub in Owings Mills, Medifast is hoping to continue its rapid growth trajectory, improve its products and explore the possibility of expanding its product lineup — all right at home in Maryland. The company, which started four decades ago in Owings Mills and is now headquartered in […]
Report offers 152 recommendations for improving Baltimore’s innovation ecosystem
A report aimed at helping make Baltimore the nation’s preeminent city for “Equitech” by 2030 offers goals and steps that can be taken to advance and promote the city’s innovation economy.
WalletHub: Maryland ranks second for innovation
The study ranked the states on two factors: human capital and innovation environment.
These ‘Beta Buttons’ can only be found at Marriott’s hotel incubator
Bethesda-based Marriott International Inc.’s flagship brand, Marriott Hotels, is using a new device to solicit feedback from its customers at what it calls the world’s first hotel innovation incubator in Charlotte, North Carolina. The M Beta at Charlotte Marriott City Center gets part of its name from pre-release testing in software development. Marriott intends to use the hotel [...]
Biotech awards focus on health care innovation
A state program that supports commercialization of biotechnology research is shifting its focus, and will now favor projects that can help improve health care quality while reducing costs.
UM’s wood stove creators honored for innovation
Taylor Myers, a University of Maryland fire science doctoral candidate, and alumnus Ryan Fisher are developing a prototype of an innovative wood burning stove.
Maryland teams enlist in Innovation-Corps
The region’s latest program aimed at commercializing research and boosting entrepreneurship launched this week at George Washington University, and several of Maryland’s big-name hospitals, universities and business incubators are represented.
Maryland lagging on entrepreneurial activity
Despite a state economy ranked high for innovation, Maryland’s entrepreneurial activity is lacking, according to speakers at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Economic Outlook Conference on Thursday morning.
NFL, Under Armour and GE launch Head Health Challenge II
The National Football League, Baltimore-based Under Armour Inc. and Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric Co. on Wednesday launched Head Health Challenge II, an open innovation challenge to award up to $10 million for new innovations and materials that can protect the brain from traumatic injury and for new tools for tracking head impacts in real time.
Announcing the D.C. Innovation Corps
The new DC Innovation Corps program is accepting applications for its October cohort, program officials announced. The free program is geared to innovations coming from engineering fields, medical/health/life sciences, and physical and computer sciences, and guides researchers in exploring the commercial potential of their inventions.
Baltimore Innovation Week spotlights industry
If asked to name America’s biggest tech hotspot, many people might say Silicon Valley; a few could offer Boston’s Route 128.
Startup government?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seeking private businesspeople to participate in a new program that aims to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurship among employees and develop an environment conducive to innovation. Sounds like Uncle Sam has been following Mark Zuckerberg on Twitter.
