News – Southwest I-Corps

September 8, 2022

NSF expands the National Innovation Network with 5 new I-Corps Hubs

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the addition of five new NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) Hubs that will scale the NSF-led National Innovation Network, accelerating the ...

October 29, 2020

Arable Cultivates $20M Series B To Digitize Agriculture

Arable aims to observe a crop’s development as it grows and help farmers determine when the crop needs the basics, such as more light, water, or ...

July 28, 2020

There’s a new group to know in Austin’s fight against Covid-19

By Mike Cronin – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 28, 2020, 2:36pm CDT Updated Jul 28, 2020, 2:46pm CDT Several academic, public-sector and private-sector organizations in ...

November 21, 2019

Top UT Inventions and Innovations of 2019

These UT professors have won the university’s Invent & Innovate Awards by Avril SealeUT News Feature image: From left, Christopher Idelson, John M. Uecker, M.D., ...

August 31, 2018

Teaming Up for the Innovation Roller Coaster

Originally posted at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Blog By Jose Papa, Program Associate with Texas Health Catalyst The following blog post is authored by José Papa, a ...

August 22, 2018

Get Out of the Lab!

TTUHSC researchers are turning “great” research into business ventures that provide life-changing products By Kara Bishop Photos by Neal Hinkle Original article: TTU's Health ...

October 19, 2017

How Scientific Research Transitions from the Lab to Become a Tool to Improve Patient Care

By: Nicole Lundberg Texas Tech Discoveries The story started with a simple research presentation. Suhas Pol, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas ...

August 7, 2017

UTRGV receives almost $500,000 from National Science Foundation to establish I-Corps Site

By Cheryl Taylor RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – AUG. 4, 2017 – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has been awarded $499,985 in federal funding by the National Science Foundation to ...

March 7, 2017

This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review By Greg Satell When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through ...

February 17, 2017

Southwest I-Corps Success Stories: NeoFluids, LLC

NeoFluidics, LLC was formed out of the TTU accelerator program and went through the NSF I-Corps Team program. The portfolio includes a platform microfluidic storage and dilution technology ...

November 15, 2016

Texas Tech Researchers and Innovation Showcased in Georgetown, Texas

Texas Tech researchers recently were represented at the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance's annual conference, GridNEXT. The conference, held November 9-11 in the 100% renewable ...

November 3, 2016

Midwest universities form regional innovation alliance with $3.5M award

Posted November 3rd, 2016 by the University of Michigan. Contact Jane Sugiyama, 734-763-2908 janesugi@umich.edu ANN ARBOR⎯A new four-university alliance will help researchers across the ...