A TEDCO program designed to help universities turn research into commercial activity funded seven startups and 26 technology assessments during the last fiscal year, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation announced. TEDCO used $4.2 million through the Maryland Innovation Initiative last ...

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When the University System of Maryland set its strategic plan for the next 10 years in 2010, it hoped to double the system’s externally sponsored research and development funding from $1.2 billion to $2.4 billion. Instead, as federal dollars have ...

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The Neuro Startup Challenge aims to create new startup companies that could help commercialize brain-related inventions developed by the NIH.

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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.

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The Johns Hopkins University has joined more than a dozen other prominent research institutions on a partnership with Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group.

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A program of the Maryland Technology Development Corp. awarded $6.4 million to 67 startup companies and university-backed research projects during fiscal 2014.

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Maryland public universities are trying to get better at commercializing professors' and students' research. But in 2011, the universities did not get much bang for their buck.

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After about 10 years and $500,000 in research and development, Joe Foley hopes his explosive-neutralizing technology will be ready to come to market within a year and a half. Foley, who co-founded Boonsboro-based ES&T Inc. in 2005, has been working ...

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The issue is called technology transfer, and it has not been one of Maryland’s strengths. For all of the state’s success in attracting research dollars to an array of universities and institutions with world-class experts and facilities, it has not ...

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