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Want to practice pitching your science-based business idea to partners and funders? Every year, IPO hosts a pitch competition (with training and preparation offered beforehand) to give Lab entrepreneurs an opportunity to hone their skills. To help participants prepare, IPO is offering a training video, followed by practice sessions ahead of the competition.  The pitch … [Read more...] about Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Are you interested in innovation training but don't have a lot of time? The DOE Tech Talks ‘22 program, run by FedTech and sponsored by DOE-OTT and NNSA, consist of interactive virtual workshops which kick off on June 22. They are designed to be a very light lift for researchers who want to further their innovation skills, offering interactive sessions but no "homework." … [Read more...] about Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

This Department of Energy Technology Commercialization Fund lab call seeks proposals for collaborative projects with industrial partners to develop innovations of industrial decarbonization technologies, with the goal of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions of iron, steel, chemicals, and cement manufacturing. The call is for technologies currently at mid-to-late-stage … [Read more...] about Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

Ansa, a Berkeley Lab/Joint BioEnergy Institute startup company managed by the University of California at Berkeley, has just raised a significant round of financing. Read Ansa's press release. "The funding will be used to accelerate the development of Ansa’s next-generation enzymatic DNA synthesis technology based on polymerase-nucleotide conjugates, build high-throughput … [Read more...] about Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

  Innovation skills can be learned.  Through Berkeley Lab’s I-Corps Lite training program, innovators can learn to commercialize their technology or refine their new idea to maximize its impact.  I-Corps Lite is a series of four short training sessions where Berkeley Lab scientists learn from commercialization experts how to test and refine their ideas in a business … [Read more...] about I-Corps Lite 2022: Learn how to take your innovations and ideas to market