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Jan 6, 2015

NC State OTT has high rankings in national survey of innovation metrics

NC State’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) has once again achieved high rankings in innovation metrics collected by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).  NC State’s OTT ranks in the top…

Dec 17, 2014

Jay Narayan and Nancy Allbritton named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Jagdish (Jay) Narayan, John C. Fan Distinguished Chair in Materials Science, and Dr. Nancy Allbritton, Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, have been named Fellows of the National Academy…

Oct 22, 2014

OTT Announces Innovator and Dr. John S. Risley Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014

The Office of Technology Transfer held its 25th annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on October 21st, where it announced the winners of the Innovator and Dr. John S. Risley Entrepreneur…

Sep 23, 2014

WebAssign Named Fast50 Company

Triangle Business Journal on Tuesday unveiled its 2014 Fast 50 Awards list of the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Triangle. The Fast 50 winners were selected and ranked based…

Sep 18, 2014

Eight NC State startup companies chosen to participate in the 2014 CED TechVenture Conference

Eight of the 82 companies chosen to participate in the 2014 CED TechVenture Conference are NC State startups. As a major driver of the Research Triangle Regions innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem…

Aug 20, 2014

Aseptia Selected as 15th Fastest Growing Company for 2014 Inc. 500 List

A Wilmington and a Raleigh company cracked the top 15 fastest-growing companies in America in the 2014 Inc. 500 list. Go Energies, based in Wilmington, ranked as the 10th fastest-growing…

Jul 15, 2014

Agile Sciences lands $1.5M NIH grant for cystic fribosis therapy

Raleigh biotechnology company Agile Sciences has landed a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to help develop its cystic fibrosis therapy derived from sea sponges. Agile was spun out of North…

Jun 22, 2014

An NC State Startup Company is Commercializing a Natural Enzyme That Helps Farmers Feed The World

At this writing, the world population counter on the website of BioResource International (BRI) reads 7,109,797,785 (but only for half a second). To feed a projected world population of 9.1 billion by…

Jan 8, 2014

NC State University’s Office of Technology Transfer Formalizes Collaboration with HQ Raleigh

NC State’s Office of Technology Transfer and HQ Raleigh are excited to announce a collaborative arrangement to support the acceleration of NC State startup companies in 2014. Through this collaboration the Office…

Dec 15, 2013

AUTM recognizes WebAssign as Pioneer in Online Instructional Tools

Years ago, university math and science students often saw their homework fall into a predictably sluggish pattern. With hundreds of students in a single class, professors could take more than…