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Invitation to Comment on University of California Office of the President Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Innovation Transfer

Invitation to Comment on University of California Office of the President Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Innovation Transfer

The University of California Office of the President invites comments on a proposed Presidential Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Innovation Transfer. The Policy makes revisions to the existing UC Patent Policy in response to the Regents Policy on Innovation Transfer & Entrepreneurship, which provides that the responsibility, authority, and accountability …
FECM FY23 Technology Commercialization Fund to Support Partnerships Between Industry and National Labs

FECM FY23 Technology Commercialization Fund to Support Partnerships Between Industry and National Labs

March 3, 2023 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is calling for applications for the DOE Office of Fossil Energy …
Berkeley Lab Licensee Newomics Inc. Places Its 100th Mass Spectrometry Front-end System

Berkeley Lab Licensee Newomics Inc. Places Its 100th Mass Spectrometry Front-end System

Newomics Inc. Places Its 100th Mass Spectrometry Front-end System Customers include 8 of the top 10 global biopharmaceutical companies, and …
DOE Tech Commercialization Fund Issues FY23 Call for Proposals

DOE Tech Commercialization Fund Issues FY23 Call for Proposals

The DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT)’s Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) leverages R&D funding in the applied energy programs (the …
Biosciences Inventor Deepika Awasthi Wins 2022 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition

Biosciences Inventor Deepika Awasthi Wins 2022 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition

On Oct. 27, Berkeley Lab inventors eloquently pitched their inventions in a “pitch” competition as part of an entrepreneurship training …
Sign Up for DOE 2023 Energy Innovation Corps Entrepreneurship Training

Sign Up for DOE 2023 Energy Innovation Corps Entrepreneurship Training

Energy I-Corps is a key initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), which sends teams …
Berkeley Lab Startup NexTech Achieves Milestone UN/Department of Transportation Certification for Lithium Sulfur Technology

Berkeley Lab Startup NexTech Achieves Milestone UN/Department of Transportation Certification for Lithium Sulfur Technology

NexTech Batteries, a Berkeley Lab spinoff, earns milestone UN/DOT safety certification, advancing patented lithium-sulfur technology towards commercialization. Its 5.4 amp …
Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Want to practice pitching your science-based business idea to partners and funders? Every year, IPO hosts a pitch competition (with …
Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

Are you interested in innovation training but don’t have a lot of time? The DOE Tech Talks ‘22 program, run …
Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

This Department of Energy Technology Commercialization Fund lab call seeks proposals for collaborative projects with industrial partners to develop innovations …
Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

Ansa, a Berkeley Lab/Joint BioEnergy Institute startup company managed by the University of California at Berkeley, has just raised a …