Categoria: funding
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Digital Innovation Challenge for Women by Microsfot. Let’s go girls!
After a successful season one of the technology based ‘Digital Innovation Challenge for Women’, season 2 of the contest powered by Microsoft Bangladesh in association with The Daily Star, and organised by Women In Digital, has begun. The objective of this contest is to encourage women to develop new ideas, inspire them to develop new…
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$33m raised for medical research and education
More than $32.5 million was raised over a period of two years to advance medical research and education here. The monies raised will supplement government funding in innovation and research. The fundraising, which was started in September 2015 by healthcare institutions that are part of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC), culminated with the…
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Sobram recursos, faltam bons projetos
Mais recursos do que projetos inovadores para investir. Esta é a realidade encontrada hoje por boa parte dos investidores-anjo no Brasil. A dificuldade em encontrar ideias revolucionárias, bem-estruturadas e com empreendedores maduros para o negócio tem feito com que uma boa quantidade de dinheiro fique estacionada à procura de onde investir. No ano passado, o…
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Chamada Pública Conjunta Finep e NRC (National Research Council of Canada). Inscreva seu projeto!
O presente edital tem como objetivo apoiar projetos de desenvolvimento de produtos diagnósticos para a saúde humana, realizados conjuntamente entre empresas canadenses e Instituições de Pesquisa Científica e Tecnológica (ICTs) brasileiras associadas a empresas também brasileiras. Prazo para envio de propostas até: 27/11/2017 Fonte de Recurso: FNDCT Público-alvo: ICTs | Empresas Tema(s): Biotecnologia; Saúde e…
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African mobile startups can apply for UK development funding
The M4D Utilities Innovation Fund was launched in June 2013, and in two phases of funding has so far awarded grants amounting to a total of GBP6 million (US$7.7 million) to 34 organisations across four continents. To date, M4D Utilities estimates the trials have impacted over 2.5 million direct beneficiaries in underserved populations around the…
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Beijing best city for innovation in China
The Ministry of Science and Technology published two reports on Wednesday about China’s innovation status in 2016 and 2017. One evaluates the overall innovation capability, and the other is a detailed ranking and analysis of each province’s innovation conditions and resources, from funding to market. According to the reports, China’s top five most-innovative municipalities and…
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Investment Plan for Europe – EIB grants financing to Apeiron
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide financing of EUR 25 million to the Austrian biotech company Apeiron Biologics AG (Apeiron). The financing will support the development of new pharmaceutical products to treat cancer, particularly a rare type affecting children. The transaction with Apeiron was made possible by the support of the “European Fund for…
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How innovation can solve society’s problem
An innovative commons model can be exemplified by something as high tech as a new app…or something as traditional as alpine cheese-making. When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places. Excellence in innovation is as…
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Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) for Brazil
The Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP) fosters and supports collaborative industrial research and development projects with high potential for commercialization between Canada and partner countries. It also stimulates bilateral science and technology networking and matchmaking activities to further new partnerships and accelerate the commercialization of research and development. The CIIP is a “seed fund”, meaning…