A123Systems Awarded $249 Million Grant
Venture capital investment and government grants fuel the greentech explosion in the United States. However, due to the recent economic downturn, money from venture capital has been dwindling to a...
View ArticleNavigating Public Policy: NanoBusiness Alliance’s 9th Annual Washington D.C....
The 9th Annual Washington D.C. Roundtable, the official public policy forum of the NanoBusiness Alliance, will take place on March 15 – 17, 2010, with informative legislative meetings as well as...
View Article$24 Million this Week for Nanopharmaceuticals: More to Come for Nano...
This week’s feature: a VC arm of big pharma, Lilly Ventures, led a new round of $24 M in financing for nanopharmaceutical company Cerulean Pharma (Cambridge, MA-based), per media reports. The round was...
View ArticleNanotech, Cleantech, and Lerner’s Book: Give Thanks for What Government is...
Last year, Josh Lerner published another provocative book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed – and What to Do About It (Princeton...
View ArticleNano-Terra Gets an Early $17.2M Christmas Gift This Week
One of the most interesting and important nanotech high tech companies is Cambridge, Mass. platform company, Nano-Terra, which has a history now over five years and traces back to George Whitesides,...
View ArticleUpdates on Cleantech and Nanotech Venture Capital
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is participating in a statement responsive to the “No More Solyndras Act.” The gist is to not “throw the baby out with the bathwater” in “fixing” the...
View ArticleVenture Capital Investment in Advanced Materials? Need for Investment Breadth
Interesting recent article by Professor Josh Lerner on venture capital investing, including a reference to advanced materials (“The Narrowing Ambitions of Venture Capital,” September 6, 2012,...
View ArticleCommercialization of Self-Healing Coatings: AMI Funded in Round B
Miracles of nature and science are all around us, and one of them is the abilty of an organism to heal itself. If skin is cut, the skin can repair itself. Can that concept also be applied to...
View ArticleNanomedicine Showing its Value ….and the Press is Noticing
The Economist, one of the more worthy media sources these days for connecting technology to larger society, included a page on nanomedicine in its special issue, “The World in 2013.” (page 128). The...
View ArticleWhat is Cool About Additive Manufacturing? PTO Event Today Shows the Latest...
I attended today the USPTO partnership meeting on “additive manufacturing” (aka 3D Printing). The content was excellent, covering both talks and demonstrations. Companies presenting included 3D...
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