by william.brah | Mar 6, 2016 | GEIR program, Incubators, Startups, Tech transfer
54% of the life science companies (including MIT spinout SQZ Biotech, pictured above), launched at the VDC were founded by foreign-born entrepreneurs that came to Massachusetts for graduate study and remained to launch a company. The Massachusetts Global...
by edelfreitas | May 20, 2015 | Focus On Founders, General, Incubators, Innovation, Internships, Mentoring, News and Events, Startups, Tech transfer
As most incubators do, we always like to catch up with our graduates to see how they have been doing since they have “left the nest” of the Venture Development Center (VDC). I got a chance to see how Dr. Jill Macoska, director of the Center for...
by vdc | Oct 25, 2010 | General, Tech transfer
Susan Windham-Bannister, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, and Dustin Armstrong, 4s3 Bioscience 4s3 Bioscience, Inc., an early-stage Massachusetts biotherapeutics company, is moving to the Venture Development Center, its first formal location. The company was...
by vdc | Oct 26, 2009 | Tech transfer
Something to be proud of: University of Massachusetts licensing income from its intellectual property income climbed to $73 million during Fiscal Year 2009, a record and a performance likely to vault UMass into the intellectual property income Top 10 nationwide,...
by vdc | Aug 17, 2009 | Tech transfer
Summer innovation camp concludes with the webinar “Advanced Essentials: SBIRs/STTRs” on August 20, 2009 at 1 pm in the VDC Presentation Room. The SBIR/STTR program is a highly specialized form of funding for those performing cutting-edge R&D that addresses the...
by william.brah | Aug 4, 2009 | Tech transfer
On Thursday, August 6th at 1:00 pm, the Venture Development Center invites you to participate in a webinar about creating a new company to diffuse results of your research. This is part of a popular series of webinars regarding intellectual property and research...