Innovation Pipeline

Pushing boundaries. That’s the modus operandi for most students on college campuses. And it takes all forms–from social to political to technological.
Judging by the discussions at last week’s Bears Symposium on the Future of Technology, that spirit is alive and well at the University of California at Berkeley.
This year’s themes and buzzwords were not different [...]

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The connection between water and energy is inextricable. And yet planners have been largely working in the dark. Part of the problem: a lack of tools.
That’s why researchers at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico, when studying the issue for their own planning purposes, decided to develop an interactive computer model. It permits administrators to [...]

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Scientists have decided corn-based ethanol might not be the emerald bullet once thought. Last week, the journal Science reported findings which show that if corn-based ethanol were used as a substitute for petroleum-based fuels it would nearly double the output of greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier projections had estimated a shift to corn-based ethanol would reduce [...]

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All university research spinoffs are not created equal. Some get timely guidance and financial backing and are able to overcome the odds.
Why is that?
The Kauffman Foundation and the Max Planck Institute of Economics decided to take a look. They studied new proof-of-concept models at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California at San [...]

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