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TechConnect World-National Innovation Summit-National SBIR Conference 2014, Innovation Partnering Program:
» Call for Innovations • Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2014

 
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TechConnect World Summit, Expo & Conferences 2014

June 15-19, 2014 • Washington, DC 

» Website: Now Accepting Innovation 
Submissions.


National Innovation
Summit, & Showcase 2014

June 15-19, 2014 • Washington, DC 

» Website: Now Accepting Technology Submissions and Offering Partnership Opportunities.


National SBIR/STTR Conference

June 16-18, 2014 • Washington, DC 

» Website: Now Accepting Innovation and Showcase Submissions.

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Technology News: Advanced Materials |
Electronics & Sensors | Pharma & Biomaterials | 
Energy & Efficiency
| Tech & Commercialization | Fed Funding

Advanced Materials

TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Environmentally Safe Plastic Microbeads for Cosmetics - College of William & Mary, TechConnect World-National Innovation Summit 2013 Awardee, Washington, DC.


Electronics & Sensors

Staying cool in the nanoelectric universe by getting hot - Research hints that nanodevices in microcircuits can protect themselves from heat generation; could boost computing power without large-scale changes to electronics.

Fujitsu Simulates 3,000-Atom Nano device, a Threefold Increase- Supercomputer used to calculate electrical properties in approximately 20 hours.

TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Peel-and-Stick Process: Fabrication process for thin film electronics on universal substrates - Stanford University, TechConnect World-National Innovation Summit 2013 Participant, Washington, DC.


Pharma & Biomaterials

MIMETAS and Galapagos to Develop Human Disease Models On-a-Chip - The two companies have entered into a research collaboration on the development of organ-on-a-chip-based human disease models for new medicine development.

TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Modular Biocompatible Materials for Medical Devices and Wound Healing Applications - DiazaMED, TechConnect World-National Innovation Summit 2013 National & Global Innovation Awardee, Washington, DC.


Energy & Efficiency

Solar-power device would use heat to enhance efficiency - New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.

TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Embedded Photonic Crystals for Use in LEDs and Lasers - University of California at Santa Barbara, TechConnect World-National Innovation Summit 2013, Washington, DC.

EV Infrastructure:
Special Joint Webinar with National Grid and Austin Energy
Complimentary Webinar! Space is Limited! Register Today!


Investment & Commercialization

National Innovation Summit, Washington DC: Final Call for Innovation Submissions - Co-located with TechConnect World and National SBIR/STTR Conference, join North America's largest technology-to-commercialization event in the nation's capital. Submissions due January 31.

Wal-Mart Pledges $10 Million in Innovation Funding for US Manufacturing - Announcement was made by Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon during the US Conference of Mayors in DC this month.

Federal Funding Opportunities

National Science Foundation (NSF):

Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation
Deadline: February 21, 2014

Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability
Deadline: February 24, 2014

Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering
Deadline: April 8, 2014

Department of Energy:

Hydrogen Delivery Technologies
Deadline: February 14, 2014

Vehicles Technologies Incubator
Deadline: February 28, 2014

Department of Defense:

DIA Innovation - Agency Wide BAA
Deadline: November 26, 2014

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA), Energy Conservation Applications for the US Navy
Deadline: November 30, 2014

National Institute of Standards and Technology:

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program
Deadline: February 14, 2014

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