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Applications Now Open for
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Unsure about the next step for your business venture? We're accepting applications for our winter Accelerate cohort! Accelerate is open to teams who want to launch high-growth businesses or explore the commercialization potential of an idea.
The nine-week program takes place on Tuesdays from 3-5pm.
Apply by Friday, January 6th!
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OSU Advantage Accelerator Client Awarded $750k in NSF Funding!
The OSU Advantage Accelerator is involved with a team that was chosen to participate in the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track I: Advancing sustainable materials Solutions and Capabilities. The award is for $750k. Their technology focuses on the sustainable mining of green hydrogen in parallel with value-added critical elements from seawater for clean energy applications. Team members include: Zhenxing Feng, Chih-hung Chang, Kelsey Stoerzinger, Astrid Layton, Mark Farley, and Maria Wright
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Interested in learning more about recent accomplishments within Oregon's university innovation ecosystem?
Interested in learning more about recent accomplishments within Oregon’s innovation ecosystem? Read the Innovate Collaborate Oregon (ICOregon) 2022 Impact Brief, which highlights successes across the ICOregon university network, including startup milestones and university grants aimed at promoting innovation and economic development across the state. Readers will also learn more about innovation funding programs established by the Oregon Legislature that made many of these achievements possible, such as the University Innovation Research Fund and the University Venture Development Fund.
Read the 2022 Impact Brief.
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Application Portal is OPEN!
TiE University is empowering university students to become the next generation of entrepreneurs by educating, mentoring and inspiring university students to plan and take intelligent risks in starting a business. TiE University brings together university entrepreneurs with successful business leaders across Oregon to perfect their pitch, develop their product or service and provide a holistic approach to their startup. The program culminates with a Global Pitch Competition that takes place at TiECon Silicon Valley, one of the worlds largest investor conferences in the world.
Oregon State University startup Alerty won the 2022 Best Social Entrepreneur award.
Learn more and apply today!
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New funding opportunity promotes capacity building to broaden participation in regional innovation ecosystems
NSF’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity, or EPIIC, program is encouraging minority-serving institutions, two-year institutions, primarily undergraduate institutions and other emerging research institutions to participate in regional innovation ecosystems and potentially partner with a future NSF Regional Innovation Engine. The program will invest up to $400,000 per award over three years to develop the capacity and institutional knowledge needed to build new partnerships and secure future external funding, enabling awardees to tap into their regional innovation ecosystems.
Learn more about EPIIC
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Upcoming Events & Programs
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Office Hours: Preparing your Phase I Proposal for America's Seed Fund at NSF
Join this open-ended session to ask questions about what’s needed when creating a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) proposal. A SBIR/STTR program director will answer questions and point you to resources. Prior to this session, you're encouraged to learn more about the proposal process, then come prepared with any questions you have.
- January 5th, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time
- January 19th, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time
- February 9th, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time
- February 23rd, 2023, 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time
Register for a virtual session here.
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Virtual Lunch & Learn: Diversity in Clinical Trials
You're invited to the first program of the Oregon Bioscience Incubator's (OBI) Equity in Leadership series on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, from 12 - 1 PM.
OBI is hosting a panel discussion where they’ll bring together an Oregon clinical researcher and a representative from the biopharmaceutical industry to explain some of the challenges of engaging diverse participants and the efforts to address the systemic barriers that can deter underserved communities from participating.
Learn more and RSVP
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Innovation and Investment from Farm to Fork
Leading food brands, investors, innovators and ingredient providers will take to the stage when the global food-tech community meets in San Francisco on March 16-17, 2023.
Don't miss your opportunity to meet with food-tech trailblazers as they unpack the crucial issues facing the food industry today. Key discussions will include scaling alt-proteins, novel ways of delivering healthier, nutrient packed foods, and opportunities at the intersection of food.
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Accelerator Client Highlight
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360 Sierra Launches Camping Trailer Prototype!
Check out this great, OSU Advantage Accelerator company and then rent their 360 Sierra ultralight trailer for a great camping weekend!
Follow their startup journey on LinkedIn!
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