News & Events

EVENTS

May 2, 2008 - Moot Corp Competition - One of the distinguished judges for MOOT Corp  is GCG's Assistant Director, Paul Zukowski.  Please click here

April 22, 2008 - TechBA Expo - Meet over 30 top-tier technology businesses - Network with international and local high-tech communities - Develop strategic relationships with technology businesses - Visit exhibits of innovative technologies, products and services. Please click here for press release 

October 30, 2007 - The University of Texas at Austin and the Gyeonggi Province of South Korea are taking the first steps to launch a program to promote entrepreneurship, identify promising technology start-up companies and introduce them to the United States market.  Please click here for press release 

October 18, 2007 - The Hungarian Investment and Trade Development Agency and IC² Institute's Global Commercialization Group present "Hungarian Trade and Investment Seminar" at the Hyatt Regency in Austin.  Co-sponsors of the event are The Office of the Governor Economic Development & Tourism, U.S. Department of Commerce/Austin U.S. Export Assistance Center, The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, The City of Austin and The International Partnership of Austin.  For more information, Please click here. 

August 27, 2007 - Bangalore Tech Expo

BANGALORE: Three winners of Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme signed deals on Thursday.

Maharashtra State Seeds Corporation Ltd has partnered with Cottor Plants (India) Pvt Ltd to license its pollution-free cotton seed delinting technology. Cottor will provide the Corporation with international manufacturing, marketing and distribution.

Another winner, Sustainable Technologies & Environmental Projects Ltd has signed an agreement with K M Sugar Mills (India) to supply caged catalyst conversion systems to convert sugar mill waste to petroleum.

Zeus Numerix Pvt Ltd inked a worldwide marketing and distribution pact with Adroitec Information Systems. Adroitec will sell and service Zeus Numerix's full line of numerical simulation software products. For more information, please click here.

A selection of the technologies are feature below, please click on the links for more information.

Pollutin-Free Cotton Seed Delinting Plant

Nitrifying Bio-Reactor System

Caged Catalyst Conversion of Waste to Petroleum Fuels

July 18, 2007 - Innovactors Competition- Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Federation House, Tansen Marg, New Delhi.

Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program Innovators Awards.  IC²'s Global Commercialization Group (GCG), Lockheed Martin and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will be hosting this competition.  For more information, please click here.  

June 28, 2007 - IC² Institute and The Univeristy of Texas at Austin were honored at a reception held in Monterrey, Mexico on Wednesday, June 28, 2007. The Honorable Governor Gonzalez Paras of Nuevo Leon recognized UT alumni in the region and the involvement and success of the IC² Institute (thru its Global Commercialization Programs) in conjuction with the INVITE Technology Commercialization Program. In attendance were US Ambassador Antonio O. Garza Jr., UT President William (Bill) C. Powers, Jr., UT-VP of Research, Juan M. Sanchez and UT- Robert A. Peterson, Associate VP Research (IC² Fellow), and IC²  Global Commercialization Programs, Ex. Director, Sid Burback.

NEWS

INVITE News

INVITE and IC² Institute's  GCG calling for 2008 applications (Click here to download application form)

November 2, 2007 - Higher Education Notes - The University of Texas via IC² Institute's GCG Partnership in South Korea.  (Click here for press release)

Hungary News 

Venture Capital Finances Hungarian Innovators (Click here for Hungarian news article) 

Hungarian spy mouse to conquer the world (Click here for Hungarian news article)

Some can continue in incubation (Click here for Hungarian news article)

ValDeal 1.5 Billion HUF on innovation (Click here for Hungarian news article)

Innovation worth 1.5 billion HUF for ValDeal (Click here for Hungarian news article)

Billions to finance Hungarian Science Projects (Click here for Hungarian news article)

India News

Please click on the following link for a 2 minute video aired in December by the TSR Channel in France and Switzerland. This broadcast appeared after an article on T.R. Rao’s Caged Catalyst Conversion of Waste to Petroleum Fuel innovation in Le Monde newspaper was published a few days prior. (Click here)

English Translation of the TV news broadcast of T.R. Rao’s Caged Catalyst Conversion of Waste to Petroleum Fuel innovation: “Waste is still not transformed into something else, but things could change very quickly. An engineer has just created a new technology, a machine to transform plastic waste into petroleum.” “Mr. Rao is the alchemist of the New Age. He has found a way to transfrom plastic waste into black gold within a few hours. Thanks to this machine the plastic melts and becomes vapor before going through the catalyst. All the genius is there—a simple 50cm wide cyclinder transforms the vapor into fuel. The catalyst only takes into consideration the atoms of carbon and hydrogen. There is no need to know whether it’s wood or plastic or any other thing—whatever you introduce into it you will either get petrol, gas or both. The fuel just needs to be collected and filtered. It’s a process that very economic and simple and has the attention of two people from the Netherlands. Their company, after several tests decided to sign a contract with the engineer in order to commercialize this technology in the entire world. It’s a process that seems so simple in how it transforms plastic into gas or petrol. We visited many of the companies and plants of the competition with huge devices, but none of them could function or provide the same result. Four companies have already purchased this technology and rather than throw away their waste they will convert it to produce electricity. Right now the competition is rare and the market that would be provided with this innovation could be $3 billion in three years. The fabrication of this technology is a big secret—and well kept for many years to come. In countries like India, which is the first consumer of plastic in the world, to transform plastic into fuel could bring them a lot of money and reduce pollution.”

Fourteen Indian Entrepreneurs Awarded for Innovative Technologies (Click here)

Lockheed Martin award for 14 Indian innovators (Click here)

Indian Innovators get Lockheed Martin Award (Click here)