News & Events
Newsletter Archive
First Edition - July 2008
EVENTS
2nd Annual TechBA EXPO - June 9, 2009
RCIC/TechBA Networking Event
November 13, 2008 - RCIC/TechBA Networking Event - El Paso, Texas. Please click here.
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.
July 18, 2007 - Innovators 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
CHILE News
Experts Outline Keys for The Entrepreneur - Business incubators continue gaining ground in the country, based on their practical and theoretical experience (Expertos detallan claves del emprendedor).
Inetec presentó su Reporte 2008
English translation of the above El Sur article:
(Key Concept: Always Think Big)
Title: Experts Outline Keys for The Entrepreneur
Subtitle: Business incubators continue gaining ground in the country, based on their practical and theoretical experience
Never have low expectations, have a big vision, compete with the best technologies in the world and maintain a high level of tolerance for failure and rebound from mistakes. This is some of the advice from Glenn Robinson and Norman Kaderlan, North American professionals from the IC2 Institute of The University of Austin, with regard to aspects related to entrepreneurship. Robinson and Kaderlan were present at the launch of Management Report 2008 by INETEC, the business incubator of INACAP, to which they are offering consulting services, as well as to 10 other institutions.
In their words, many of the conditions that favor entrepreneurship are related to cultural traits, that is, to ways to understand the business world, concepts that, in general, in the Anglo Saxon world, are more ingrained. The experts have been working to deliver their know-how since last year, after reaching an agreement with CORFO regarding evaluation criteria for the incubators. Based on these criteria, an evaluation was conducted, and a high level of motivation and intellectual background was discovered, albeit little real-world experience.
Subsequently, staff were trained at the IC2 Institute of The University of Austin, Texas, and since that time, positive impacts regarding the way to approach future development has been observed.
One of the problems encountered is that many of the inventors of new technologies are not aware of the how-to’s of commercial development, which makes entrepreneurship difficult, and it is here that business incubators help greatly, as well as establishing connections with the universities for the research and development that they generate.
Sandra Espinoza, director of INETEC (which has been in operation for two years and has an operational network in five of the 25 campuses), highlighted the importance to the incubator of participating in the program developed by the experts, specifically emphasizing the methodology.
There are more limits with regard to people than to possibilities, especially in the middle class segments, where important knowledge for us has begun.
TECHBA News
UT planning to build a business innovation center in Mexico
Mexican companies find success
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)
Korean News
UT-South Korea Province Sign Agreement to Launch UT-Gyeonggi Innovation Center
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
India - Varadachari implants new life with bio-release micronutrients
India benefits from Lockheed program (Click here)
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)
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