Categoria: funding
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Ontario Supporting Creation of Innovation Hub for Students and Entrepreneurs in Mississauga
Province Providing Entrepreneurship and Start-up Business Support May 3, 2018 3:00 P.M. Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development Ontario is supporting students and young entrepreneurs who want to explore the world of entrepreneurship, turn ideas into products and businesses and develop the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur with the creation of a…
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Public funding cuts hurt Finnish innovation
The former boss of Tekes, the public funding body for technology and innovation now under the umbrella of Business Finland, says the state is doing innovation wrong. Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara led Tekes – the state business development body now called Business Finland – for more than a decade. “In Finland the thinking now is that companies…
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Salesforce Backs $100 Million Venture Capital Fund in Canada
Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management software, is investing $100 million in Canadian technology through a venture fund to support tech start-ups. The Salesforce Ventures unit set up the Canada Trailblazer Fund to help cloud-computing startups in the country, the San Francisco-based company said Thursday in a statement. First-round funding recipients include…
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Parceria entre Prefeitura e Estado viabiliza até R$ 15 milhões para desenvolvimento de tecnologias inovadoras na área da Saúde
Estão abertas as inscrições para o edital “Pesquisa para o Desenvolvimento de Inovação em Cidades Inteligentes – Grandes Metrópoles”, viabilizado pelo acordo de cooperação técnica entre a Prefeitura de São Paulo, representada pelas secretarias de Saúde e Inovação e Tecnologia, e o Governo do Estado, representado pela Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de…
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£4M FUNDING AWARDED FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY INNOVATION CENTRE
A new renewable energy innovation centre is set to be developed close to the Humber Bridge after £4m in funding was awarded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The funding will be used to build the Aura Innovation Centre (AIC), as well as provide a programme of innovation support for Humber-based SMEs in the…
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Patience: The missing ingredient in the ecosystem of innovation
Investors need to expect a long lag time between idea and take-off By Mark Dodgson & David Gann Mark Dodgson is director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland Business School. David Gann is Imperial College’s Vice President, leading Innovation. He is a member of the College’s Executive Board. Great discoveries take time to change…
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African govts faulted on research funding
Prof. Peter Ngure, the programme manager Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), hands over a certificate to Dr Léon Mugabo, a lecturer at the University of Rwanda in Kigali this week. Courtesy. The majority of African governments are prioritising political projects at the expense of research in universities and this is affecting the…
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What’s your food innovation idea?
The Bayer Cares Foundation is on the hunt for game changing startups and innovators that can transform the food and agriculture industries. And as part of next week’s Seeds&Chips event, which is the world’s premier food innovation summit, young companies can take part in the Pitch for Innovation-4-Food – from Bayer Cares Foundation. Innovators Magazine is…
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Fundos vs Start-ups: não obrigado
Não dêem mais dinheiro diretamente às start-ups, financiem antes o “ecossistema”. Nuno Brito Jorge, fundador da GoParity e sócio da Snap.partners No passado mês de março um grupo de 19 organizações europeias, incluindo fundos, aceleradoras de start-ups, scaleups (ex-start-ups que já atingiram fase de expansão) – com uma grande predominância alemã e francesa –…
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