intellectual property

Commercialization: UTSC's Dale reviews Vaxent's progress on Strep-A vaccine

Nov 06, 2011 at 02:25 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Vaxent, the vaccine-development company focused on Group A streptococcus (GAS), is likely to seek a commercialization partner or raise capital by 2014, said co-f.... Read More

NewsBits, Oct. 26, 2011

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

NELSON'S GREEN BRIER DISTILLERY's recently launched $500K capital raise promises to rekindle the Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey brand, now led by founder Charles Nelso.... Read More

Economist: Innovation campaign driven by pragmatism is crucial

Oct 20, 2011 at 12:25 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEANS who want to advance the state's economy and its citizens' standard of living must not "become fixated on gridlock in Washington" and must realize that the fate of.... Read More

IP imperative: MyWerx, Cumberland Center and Universities ally for iExchange

Oct 19, 2011 at 10:32 am by miltcapps

A partnership between tech entrepreneur Tim Smith and nonprofit CEO Scott Massey seems likely to ensure that the fledgling Cumberland Center becomes an action tank, rather tha.... Read More

VentureNotes: Change|Healthcare, XMi High Growth, Shareable Ink, StreamWeaver

Oct 19, 2011 at 10:32 am by miltcapps

Update: Nov. 19, 2014 11:15 a.m. - Emdeon announced it has acquired Change|Healthcare for $135MM+. Our October 2011 item is below.-Ed. CHANGE|HEALTHCARE, which provides consum.... Read More

Next Nashville Technology Council CEO is Liza Lowery Massey

Aug 09, 2011 at 01:29 pm by miltcapps

Updated 11 July 2013 11:34 a.m.: Nashville Business Journal reports NTC CEO Liz Massey has a resigned and a search is being mounted for her successor. The 2011 NTC CEO job des.... Read More

TNInvestco portfolios: Hapten, ConsensusPoint, iScreen, Cagenix updates

Aug 09, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

Several TNInvestco funds and their portfolio companies are reporting investments or hires. Rebrovick Consensus Point, the predictive-markets firm led by CE.... Read More

Angels gas-up Iridium's SmartFuel, but the venture's trip has just begun

Jun 19, 2011 at 10:49 pm by miltcapps

George Sibble, the 28-year-old founder, president and CEO of Iridium Development, got about 24 friends and Angels to put $500,000 into his startup's gas tank to launch its Sma.... Read More

Solidus' Venture Incite options ORNL technology to bring its start-up 'assembly line' to life

Jun 19, 2011 at 02:32 pm by miltcapps

VENTURE INCITE (VI), based in Oak Ridge and thus far funded by Nashville-based Solidus, has secured an option to license Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that is likel.... Read More

Dan Hammond whets VCs' appetites for 'Just A Pinch' media spin-out

May 11, 2011 at 09:22 am by miltcapps

Dan Hammond, the Nashville media-culture entrepreneur, has apparently consulted his heartland gut and decided to keep 'dancing with the one that brung him'. Hammond, the 51-y.... Read More

NEXT TN: Research-industry-capital links are key to state's intellectual-property commercialization

May 10, 2011 at 07:54 am by miltcapps

Too few Tennessee-born ideas are translating into start-up businesses, but stronger outreach and collaboration could improve upon the state's "mixed record of entrepreneurial.... Read More

Vanderbilt University picks Cleveland Clinic exec to drive transfer and commercialization of IP

Apr 27, 2011 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University is reinforcing its technology transfer and enterprise development program by appointing Cleveland Clinic Innovations' Alan Bentley to the new post of ass.... Read More

Vanderbilt science, technology translated by news pro's

Apr 27, 2011 at 10:09 am by miltcapps

Update: VU announced 25 November 2013 that Salisbury had been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.-Ed. Vanderbilt University's pursuit o.... Read More

Link: VU Engineers at ISIS run global cyber-collaborative portal

Apr 14, 2011 at 12:36 pm by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University shifts tech-transfer portfolio

Apr 14, 2011 at 11:32 am by miltcapps

Dr. Gordon Bernard Update: To read about the appointment of Alan Bentley to the position reported here, click here. The story as originally publis.... Read More

NewsBits, March 21, 2011

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:35 am by miltcapps

Rep. Shipley Clean energy 'technology grab for Tennessee': Some State lawmakers are pushing for TNInvestco and State ECD support for two pilot plants that would gene.... Read More

Latest TTDC grants meant to vault Tennessee startups beyond 'Valley of Death'

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:27 am by miltcapps

Eight startup tech firms have each won $50,000 Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC) proof of concept grants to help the companies advance toward commercializati.... Read More

VUMC scientists seek partners for neuro-drug discovery

Mar 21, 2011 at 08:07 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists, allied institutions and industry partners may be stepping-up their assault on pharmaceutical business-as-usual via VU's n.... Read More

FCA Venture Partners, TN Angel Fund bless Silvercare 3MM B-round

Mar 09, 2011 at 02:09 pm by miltcapps

Silvercare Solutions, an on-site incontinence care provider, today announced completing its $3 million B-round led by FCA Venture Partners and Tennessee Angel Fund, the TNInve.... Read More

TriStar, Limestone TNINvestco funds form Device Innovation Group

Mar 08, 2011 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

Two Nashville-based TNInvestco-funded companies, TriStar Technology Fund and Limestone Fund, have created and seed-funded Device Innovation Group (DIG), a Delaware LLC. DIG wi.... Read More