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December 11, 2017 - VABeachBio Innovation Challenge Is On!
The City of Virginia Beach and the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development have partnered with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to launch the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. This is an unprecedented, open innovation challenge that will launch 20 startup companies focused on creating therapeutics, vaccines and devices for veteran-related illnesses including cardiovascular, neurological disorders, diabetes, oncology and regenerative medicine.
June 29, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Establishes Ambassador Program
The world's largest virtual startup challenge-based accelerator, the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), is launching an ambassador program.
June 23, 2017 - Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation joins Forbes Nonprofit Council
Forbes Nonprofit Council is an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives in successful nonprofit organizations.
June 21, 2017 - The challenge is to beat cancer A challenge has been launched at the world's biggest biotech event to advance 100 breakthroughs in fight against cancer.
June 20, 2017 - Biomedical "Shark Tank": Virginia Beach bets $500,000 on program to bring new businesses
Do you have what it takes to launch a new biomedical company? Think "Shark Tank" with a twist: The opportunity to launch a business around an existing invention.
June 20, 2017 - 100 Breakthrough Cancer Inventions from 100 Companies? BIO and CAI are Betting On It
There are more than 150,000 inventions that are “sitting on the shelf – because of lack of funding, they’re not de-risked enough, or because they’re not ‘discoverable’ by oustiders,” said Rosemarie Truman, founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI).
June 19, 2017 - BIO Partners with the Center for Advancing Innovation in the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotech trade association, is teaming up with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to engage the biotech community and assist in promoting the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), a unique initiative designed to advance and commercialize 100 cancer inventions for the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.
April 27, 2017 - Virginia Business.com: Another renaissance? Many major project unfold as region diversifies its economy
As part of the city’s efforts to expand its bioscience sector, Virginia Beach also is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge.
Announced by Mayor Will Sessoms at the Virginia Biotechnology Association’s conference in the city in early April, the challenge is designed to bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions into startup companies.
The initial competition will put a big emphasis on aiding veterans. Inventions will be selected to target and improve veteran health care, and veterans will be given priority in competing to run the companies.
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March 21, 2017 - VABeachBio Innovation Challenge seeks to grow industry's veteran presence
Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. The initiative will bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions from research labs into successful startup companies.
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March 16, 2017 - Virginia Beach Economic Development Announces Launch of VABeachBio Innovation Challenge
The City of Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation, a firm that has created more than 80 companies and more than 2,000 knowledge-based jobs by turning federally funded inventions into startup companies, to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge.
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January 24, 2017 -FLC publishes the NIH Startup Challenge Model
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) published the NIH Startup Challenge Model highlighting CAI's process, successes, notable results, and feedback from our successful startups. "The Startup Challenge Model is a technology transfer strategy with potential to help simultaneously advance multiple federal inventions from discovery to commercialization."
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November 30, 2016 - FACT SHEET: Celebrating President Obama’s Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship, and Announcing New Steps to Build on These Successes, recognizes the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge
Today, in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Month, the Administration is releasing a Top 10 list of President Obama’s most significant specific actions to promote American entrepreneurship, as well as announcing new efforts to build on these successes. The President’s unprecedented focus on the role of startups in the United States’ innovation economy is exemplified by his launch of Startup America in 2011, a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the Nation.
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October 17, 2016 - The Center for Advancing Innovation has been featured in a GAO study: OPEN INNOVATION: Practices to Engage Citizens and Effectively Implement Federal Initiatives
The Center for Advancing Innovation and its startup challenge model has been featured in a GAO study to identify open innovation strategies to address complex and cross cutting challenges facing the federal government. The report identifies practices that help agencies effectively implement open innovation strategies, and how those strategies have affected agency performance. More on page 33 of the document
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July 14,2016 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Partners with the Founder Institute to Increase Founders’ Probability of Success
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), which leads the world’s preeminent global challenge-accelerator program to commercialize federally funded inventions, announced a new partnership with the Founder Institute, the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.
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June 21, 2016 - IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge is recognized by the White House in "IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation" under #36 of 100. On January 20, 2009, President Obama issued a simple and powerful pledge: to restore science to its rightful place. Coming into office, the President was committed to reinvigorating the American scientific enterprise through a strong commitment to basic and applied research, innovation, and education; to restoring integrity to science policy; and most importantly, to making decisions on the basis of evidence, rather than ideology.
December 11, 2017 - VABeachBio Innovation Challenge Is On!
The City of Virginia Beach and the Virginia Beach Department of Economic Development have partnered with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to launch the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. This is an unprecedented, open innovation challenge that will launch 20 startup companies focused on creating therapeutics, vaccines and devices for veteran-related illnesses including cardiovascular, neurological disorders, diabetes, oncology and regenerative medicine.
June 29, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Establishes Ambassador Program
The world's largest virtual startup challenge-based accelerator, the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), is launching an ambassador program.
June 23, 2017 - Rosemarie Truman, Founder and CEO of The Center for Advancing Innovation joins Forbes Nonprofit Council
Forbes Nonprofit Council is an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives in successful nonprofit organizations.
June 21, 2017 - The challenge is to beat cancer A challenge has been launched at the world's biggest biotech event to advance 100 breakthroughs in fight against cancer.
June 20, 2017 - Biomedical "Shark Tank": Virginia Beach bets $500,000 on program to bring new businesses
Do you have what it takes to launch a new biomedical company? Think "Shark Tank" with a twist: The opportunity to launch a business around an existing invention.
June 20, 2017 - 100 Breakthrough Cancer Inventions from 100 Companies? BIO and CAI are Betting On It
There are more than 150,000 inventions that are “sitting on the shelf – because of lack of funding, they’re not de-risked enough, or because they’re not ‘discoverable’ by oustiders,” said Rosemarie Truman, founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI).
June 19, 2017 - BIO Partners with the Center for Advancing Innovation in the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotech trade association, is teaming up with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to engage the biotech community and assist in promoting the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), a unique initiative designed to advance and commercialize 100 cancer inventions for the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.
April 27, 2017 - Virginia Business.com: Another renaissance? Many major project unfold as region diversifies its economy
As part of the city’s efforts to expand its bioscience sector, Virginia Beach also is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge.
Announced by Mayor Will Sessoms at the Virginia Biotechnology Association’s conference in the city in early April, the challenge is designed to bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions into startup companies.
The initial competition will put a big emphasis on aiding veterans. Inventions will be selected to target and improve veteran health care, and veterans will be given priority in competing to run the companies.
News
March 21, 2017 - VABeachBio Innovation Challenge seeks to grow industry's veteran presence
Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge. The initiative will bring together entrepreneurs, industry and inventors who will compete to turn inventions from research labs into successful startup companies.
Press Release
March 16, 2017 - Virginia Beach Economic Development Announces Launch of VABeachBio Innovation Challenge
The City of Virginia Beach is partnering with The Center for Advancing Innovation, a firm that has created more than 80 companies and more than 2,000 knowledge-based jobs by turning federally funded inventions into startup companies, to create the VABeachBio Innovation Challenge.
News
January 24, 2017 -FLC publishes the NIH Startup Challenge Model
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) published the NIH Startup Challenge Model highlighting CAI's process, successes, notable results, and feedback from our successful startups. "The Startup Challenge Model is a technology transfer strategy with potential to help simultaneously advance multiple federal inventions from discovery to commercialization."
News
November 30, 2016 - FACT SHEET: Celebrating President Obama’s Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship, and Announcing New Steps to Build on These Successes, recognizes the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge
Today, in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Month, the Administration is releasing a Top 10 list of President Obama’s most significant specific actions to promote American entrepreneurship, as well as announcing new efforts to build on these successes. The President’s unprecedented focus on the role of startups in the United States’ innovation economy is exemplified by his launch of Startup America in 2011, a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the Nation.
News
October 17, 2016 - The Center for Advancing Innovation has been featured in a GAO study: OPEN INNOVATION: Practices to Engage Citizens and Effectively Implement Federal Initiatives
The Center for Advancing Innovation and its startup challenge model has been featured in a GAO study to identify open innovation strategies to address complex and cross cutting challenges facing the federal government. The report identifies practices that help agencies effectively implement open innovation strategies, and how those strategies have affected agency performance. More on page 33 of the document
Press Release
July 14,2016 - The Center for Advancing Innovation Partners with the Founder Institute to Increase Founders’ Probability of Success
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), which leads the world’s preeminent global challenge-accelerator program to commercialize federally funded inventions, announced a new partnership with the Founder Institute, the world’s premier idea-stage accelerator and startup launch program.
News
June 21, 2016 - IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge is recognized by the White House in "IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation" under #36 of 100. On January 20, 2009, President Obama issued a simple and powerful pledge: to restore science to its rightful place. Coming into office, the President was committed to reinvigorating the American scientific enterprise through a strong commitment to basic and applied research, innovation, and education; to restoring integrity to science policy; and most importantly, to making decisions on the basis of evidence, rather than ideology.
October 29, 2015 - White House, Applying the Innovation Toolkit to Bring Cancer Nanotechnology Inventions to Market
The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer employs a range of innovative strategies to bring cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Nanotech Startup Challenge in Cancer launches to create new high-impact companies around promising nanotechnology cancer-related inventions.
To support the United States as a nation of innovators, the Administration has introduced many tools to the Federal government’s innovation toolkit. As described in the Strategy for American Innovation, these tools are aimed at uncovering the best ideas, wherever they may lie, and creating opportunities for those ideas to find their way to the marketplace.
The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer employs a range of innovative strategies to bring cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Nanotech Startup Challenge in Cancer launches to create new high-impact companies around promising nanotechnology cancer-related inventions.
To support the United States as a nation of innovators, the Administration has introduced many tools to the Federal government’s innovation toolkit. As described in the Strategy for American Innovation, these tools are aimed at uncovering the best ideas, wherever they may lie, and creating opportunities for those ideas to find their way to the marketplace.
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