VanDyne SuperTurbo, Inc., Receives National Science Foundation Award - READ ARTICLEFORT COLLINS, Colo., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- VanDyne SuperTurbo, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been awarded $149,000 for a Phase One SBIR project by the National Science Foundation to explore the recovery of wasted exhaust heat from a gasoline engine and its catalytic converter by transferring waste heat energy to the crankshaft via the Company's SuperTurbocharger.As a result of the project, the Company will validate energy recovery from the waste heat going out the tail p... More

Researchers partner with business for solutions to global needs - July 13, 2010 By Shelley WidhalmREAD ARTICLEResearchers at Colorado State University, with the help of the city of Fort Collins, are avoiding the ivory tower.Instead of writing white papers that get filed away, researchers in a variety of academic fields are moving their ideas from the campus to the marketplace by way of a supercluster — an alliance of researchers and business experts who identify a global need and work with industry partners to develop and market the solution.What this lo... More

Solar panel maker must prove low production cost - June 2010 - READ  ARTICLE Abound Solar promises to bring a big new industry to central Indiana, but first the company has to prove its manufacturing efficiency.Colorado-based Abound will receive $400 million in federal loan guarantees to scale up production at its Longmont facility and to add a second factory, the unused Getrag-Chrysler transmission plant in Tipton. The company says it will hire 900 to 1,200 people in Indiana, but first, it must focus on successfully scaling up its exi... More

Off the Grid - Bamboo Bike Makers Crafting Environmentally-Friendly DesignsREAD  ARTICLE  HEREIt’s not the kind of place you can just wander into. The off-white stucco building has a vacant feel and no sign out front. The entrance opens into an empty hallway that is just wide enough for one person, and zigzags a few times before ending at the back of the building. Their door is on the right.The address and phone number of the shop cannot be found anywhere online or in the yellow pages... More

Turning bamboo into two-wheelers - Fort Collins-based manufacturer is bornREAD ARTICLE For sale: Strong, lightweight bicycles hand-constructed with quality components paired with the finest bamboo in the world. Unique ride guaranteed.                                              Panda Bicycles co-found... More

Colorado Solar Project - Going Solar Is Harder Than It Looks, a Valley FindsREAD  ARTICLEALAMOSA, Colo. — The nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, as oil spews unchecked from BP’s wrecked well, makes this high mountain valley seem even more idyllic than it is. Energy here, from the sun, is free, abundant and clean. For generations of farmers, and the hippies in the 1970s who went off the grid with their sun-powered water-heaters, and most recently the large-scale solar companies that have come looking ... More

Entrepreneurship Goes Global - read articleJune 7, 2010  Among the global economic upheavals of the past two decades, here’s one worth cheering about: the worldwide spread of entrepreneuriship. Anyone who doubts that should have headed to Monaco last weekend for the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony.The 42 countries represented at the event included China and several former Soviet-bloc nations - places where starting a private business was illegal not so long ago. In other countries, the weakening of t... More

Six entrepreneurs in running for Bard Center cash award - read articleThe Bard Center for Entrepreneurship has announced six finalists in acompetition for creating business plans. The center, part of the businessschool at the University of Colorado Denver, will award $10,000 to thewinner next week. The competition is for early-stage, Colorado-basedcompanies that have not yet received angel or venture-capital funding. Thefinalists:CaraSolva: It's a provider of Web- based business systems for long-term andassisted-care facilities, hospices, host homes an... More

Cleantech Roadmap receives economic development grant - read articleDENVER - The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association received an $80,000 grant to develop a Cleantech Roadmap for the state.The grant, from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration, provides the final funds for the $200,000 project, according to CCIA Executive Director Christine Shapard.Other entities providing financial support for the roadmap include the Colorado Economic Development Commission, the Colorado Governor's Energy Office, the Metro Denver Ec... More

RMI2 aims to expand FastTrac effort - read articleBY DAVID YOUNG • DavidYoung@coloradoan.com • May 26, 2010 Following the success of Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative's new FastTrac TechVenture, intended to provide new entrepreneurial ventures in the clean-energy, bioscience and technology industries a leg up as they're starting out, the organization is looking to take the program statewide.RMI2 Chief Executive Officer Mark Forsyth deemed the seven-week course, which ended Saturday, a great success. He hopes to make the... More

Europe and the Entrepreneuer - European SME Week launchedread articleTuesday, May 25, 2010ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News A pan-European campaign for small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, started Tuesday to encourage, inspire and motivate more people to become entrepreneurs.The European SME Week, initiated for the first time in 2009 by the European Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry, is a decentralized campaign with diverse events organized by business associations, support providers, region... More

Indian Incubators - Indian Agri-Business Development through network of Incubatorsread articleHyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, May 21, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- The world is ever changing and it needs constant innovations to keep up with change. Innovators and entrepreneurs have created the world's most prominent companies. The Indian economy depends largely on agriculture and there is need for innovative interventions and enhanced entrepreneurial initiatives. The Indian Council of Agriculture and Research (ICAR), the apex... More

NYC and SUNY Downstate announce first phase of development at BioBAT - May 20, 2010read articleMayor Michael Bloomberg and other local dignitaries have announced initial development of the first 56,000 square feet of what will eventually be 486,000 square feet of commercial bioscience space at the City-owned Brooklyn Army Terminal in the Sunset Park neighborhood, overlooking Upper New York Bay. For the full City news release and video of remarks by the mayor and others, click the first link or at the NYCEDC website here. Architectural renderings are here. Wall Str... More

Fort Collins company working on dengue fever shot - Inviragen to begin vaccine trialsread articleMay 19, 2010 - The Coloradoan -A Fort Collins biotech company will begin its first clinical trials of a vaccine against dengue fever, a disease that threatens more than 3.6 billion people living in or traveling to tropical and subtropical regions.Inviragen, a 2008 graduate of the Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative in Fort Collins, got the necessary approvals Monday to go ahead with the trials, Inviragen CEO Dan Stinchcomb said.The technology was dev... More

RMI2 Improves Economy - RMI2 improves our economic resilienceRead Article The Coloradoan May 16, 2010 - Kudos to the Fort Collins City Council for its support of the Rocky Mountain Innovation. Their vision makes RMI2 a critical part of a pipeline that is creating new local companies and establishing Fort Collins as an economic leader.By facilitating Sage Advisor volunteers and business-sponsor supported programs such as the Kauffman Foundation's entrepreneur FastTrac training, RMI2 helps ensure that local entrepreneurs... More