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Companies to
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Larta Institute Publications
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The 2006 Federal
Technology Funding Guide
Available
for download at no cost.
Larta Institute's annual publication is recognized as the
nation's leading survey on Federal technology funding
opportunities. The 2006
Guide
provides detailed information on Federal funding processes,
programs,
and tips
on applying for government
R&D money.
Download the Guide
here.
Other
reports available for purchase:
University Tech Transfer:
Licensing Intellectual Property from Universities
Purchase price of $99.
Universities are among the best sources of intellectual
property. This white paper from Larta Institute includes
approaches for finding and accessing university research,
recommendations for avoiding potential pitfalls when licensing
university IP, suggestions for successfully negotiating
university tech transfer agreements, and illustrations of
typical licensing terms and types of licenses. To
purchase this report, click
here.
Intellectual Property Strategies
for Wireless Technologies
Purchase price of $99. It is vital for startup
companies involved with wireless technologies to employ sound
intellectual property strategies within the context of FCC
regulations. A new Larta Institute white paper, Intellectual
Property Strategies for Wireless Technologies, details IP
strategies while addressing considerations for obtaining FCC
approval. To purchase this report, click
here.
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Q&A Session with Sanaria:
How to bring a malaria vaccine to market?
Sanaria, a
current NIH-CAP participating company, is exclusively
dedicated to the research and production of a malaria vaccine.
VOX had a conversation with David Dolberg, its Director of
Intellectual Property, about the challenges Sanaria faces and
its strategies for success in this unique market. Click on the
link above to read more about the interview with David.
What Angels Make
What exactly is the return on investments for angel investors?
Read more if you are curious about the specific success angels
have.
Published
in partnership with Innovation Pipeline.
Send comments and submissions to Stephanie Watt, Larta VOX Editor,
at voxeditor@larta.org
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Mark
your calendars for May 30, 2008: The Country's Largest
Seed & Early Stage Investment & Partnering Event is
back! The Life Sciences Venture Forum is the largest
- and longest running - showcase of early stage innovation and
entrepreneurship on the planet. It is the must-attend event
for those seeking access to untapped quality deal flow from
around the world. Now 14 years strong, Venture Forum presenting
companies are drawn from Larta's robust pipeline, and prepared
by world-class mentors to deliver presentations
focused on a solid business proposition, excellent science,
and strong growth potential for an audience of investors, partners
and customers. Larta
Institute's commercialization practice advises hundreds of innovative
companies with breakthrough technologies funded by or spinning
out of U.S. Federal Agencies, universities and research institutes,
and innovative regions from across the globe. Mark
your calendars, May 30, 2008 Santa Clara Convention Center,
and look out for more updates!
www.theventureforum.com
USDA COMMERCIALIZATION
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM NOW LAUNCHED 
Agribusiness up
your alley? Keep yourself updated on this
commercialization assistance program from Larta!
Los Angeles, CA
— November 28, 2007
Larta Institute, under contract with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, has recently launched the 2008 USDA
Commercialization Assistance Program (USDA-CAP).
The
program, called USDA-CAP, begins in January 2008 and will comprise of
training seminars, individual mentoring/coaching sessions, exposure
to potential partners/investors networks and the development of a brief
commercialization plan/roadmap which participating companies may adopt
at the conclusion of the program. This roadmap will be customized for
each USDA-CAP participant and will include clear commercialization objectives
for the company, and the steps it needs to take to achieve those objectives.
The program is geared to
provide support services to USDA's SBIR Phase II grantees,
which is now in its enrollment phase.
If you would like to learn more about the USDA-CAP, visit
http://www.larta.org/usda/.
KOREA - U.S.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BRIDGE
RECAP
Los Angeles, California- December 3, 2007
The
Korea-U.S. Technology Transfer Bridge concluded its last day of
events on November 20th, as the Koreans returned to
their home country after a warm response to the program. As a collaboration
between TechnoValue/Business Network
& Systems Development International (bnsD)
and Larta Institute, this Technology Transfer Bridge hosted a
comprehensive educational program and study tour for technology
transfer managers of various regional technology transfer
centers (RTTCs)
from Korea.
As the Network T2 program and the U.S. SBIR Mandate & Program represent a solid picture of successful
technology transfer in California, these two studies were highly
well-received by the
Korean delegation,
and set the stage for a complete and informative program on
program management and business development in this field.
Moreover, the participants were given the opportunity to grasp
issues surrounding technology transfer directly from the
research and financial points of view, upon visiting and making
contacts with several institutions such as the California
Institute of Technology Office of Technology Transfer, CONNECT,
and CommNexus. Overall, the
participants
will be looking forward to applying the valuable lessons learned
to their own areas of experience and hope to return to Larta for
future capacity building programs.
For more information
about the program please visit
http://www.larta.org/globalbridge/Korea.asp
LARTA PARTNERS WITH
YOUNG ARAB LEADERS ORGANIZATION
A new opportunity to forge a
partnership between the the Arab world and the rest of the
world!
New York-- October 22,
2007 Larta institute and Young
Arab Leaders (YAL) announced a partnership today which will
jointly develop a multi year program to stimulate and expand
innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab world. The program
will be launched formally at the next Global Action Forum in New
York in March 2008.
YAL is a network of
business professionals with a mandate to encourage leadership
values and foster the development of future Arab leaders,
contribute to regional development efforts, and help bridge the
awareness gap between the region and the rest of the world.
Details will be forthcoming at the next YAL Global Action Forum.
LARTA
INSTITUTE HAS PARTNERED WITH CHISK
to provide businesses with outsourced, cost effective and high quality office support combined with the convenience and quality assurance that comes from local contact. To learn more visit
www.larta.org/chisk
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 Watch
this space for exciting news as
Larta gets around in
the world!
December 12-13, 2007
Rohit Shukla
will be moderating the panel for "Dedicated Seed/Translational
Funding" during the Fifth Annual Global CONNECT Conference in
London, England. This conference is intended to
drive the
development of regional technology clusters through global
alliances. For more information, visit
http://globalconnect.ucsd.edu/events/london07agenda.cfm.
October 12, 2007: Rohit Shukla was a featured speaker at the
"October Symposium: Bundling Technology, Larta At Work" for the
The iBridgeSM Network, a program of the Kauffman
Innovation Network, Inc. He introduced the iBridge Network
to the project Larta Institute has been working on with the
Kauffman Foundation in regards to bundling technologies.
For more information, visit
http://www.ibridgenetwork.org/.
October 1, 2007
Neven Karlovac, Larta's Senior Advisor, recently helped organize the 1st US-Croatian
Conference on Cooperation in the ICT, Biotechnology, and Pharmaceutical
Industry in Split, Croatia, October 1-4, 2007. The conference was
attended by the executives of Croatian and American companies, NIH, and
representatives of Croatian and US government.
Click
here to read more!
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Our
picks of companies that
are making the news and already on
their way to making it big!
Fresh
Faces
SVision LLC
SVision LLC, a 2007-08 NIH-CAP participating company, recently
announced that Nikon has selected its SVCell as the analysis
software for Nikon’s BioStation CT, which is a cell culture
observation and monitoring system. Marketed under the name “CT
Analysis Software SV”, SVCell will be used to analyze
time-lapse, phase and fluorescence images acquired on the
BioStation CT. Based in Bellevue, WA, SVision is a
technology-based company that has a number of patents in
high-speed image processing, pattern recognition, machine
vision, automatic learning, spatial reasoning, and data mining
applications.
Oxford Biomedical Research Inc.
Located in
Rochester Hills, MI, Oxford Biomedical Research develops and
manufactures high quality biological reagents and assay kits for
the life science research market. The company is one of the
participants in the 2007-08 National Institutes of Health
Commercialization Assistance Program (NIH-CAP), funded by NIH
and managed and executed by Larta. Denis Callewaert, the
company’s founder, has extensive start-up experience; Oxford is
the second of four biotechnology companies he has founded.
Through the NIH-CAP, the company hopes to expand its
current market and explore licensing opportunities or joint
ventures.
Atmospheric
Glow Technologies, Inc.
One Atmosphere
Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP®) technology from this
Tennessee company that could pave the way for air purification,
biotechnology, healthcare, and manufacturing.
AGT
was chosen to particpate in the NIH-CAP program this year.
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Larta Alumni
Advanced Liquid Logic
Advanced
Liquid Logic, a 2006-07 NIH-CAP participating company, was
recently named a runner-up in the Semiconductors category for
the 2007 Technology Innovation Awards. Based in Morrisville, NC,
Advanced Liquid Logic develops products for a variety of
diagnostic and other applications based on its unique
droplet-based liquid handling technology. The Technology
Innovation Awards is sponsored by The Wall Street Journal. More
than 800 applications were submitted for this year’s awards in
12 categories and the winners were selected by an independent
panel of judges.
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Tech innovation in 2008
(CNet)
The CNet staff give their magic ball predictions for the
technology of the future in the coming new year.
1 December 2007
T.J. Rodgers'
Startup Strategy
(BusinessWeek)
The Cypress
Semiconductor CEO provides his approach to new markets, a
successful one in his case.
3 December
2007
Who owns small business?
(CNNMoney)
Pending legislation could potentially qualify VC-backed startups
for federal research grants.
3 December
2007
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December 6-7 2007:
The Venture Summit West
Venture
Summit West is a two-day gathering that highlights the
significant economic, political and technology trends
impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit West
features the most innovative and influential institutional
investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, research
analysts, financial and technology media and corporate
buyers in keynote presentations and panel debates. The
Venture Summit will also host 14 Best of Breed CEO
Showcases hand-picked from the
AlwaysOn annual top 100
private company list, and 36 other qualified six-minute CEO
pitches from companies seeking later-stage capital or
potential acquirers. The Venture Summit’s goal is to match
growth company buyers and sellers and identify the most
promising innovation-driven, growth investment
opportunities.
As a
friend of LARTA, we are pleased to extend to you a 33%
savings on tickets to the Venture Summit West.
To take advantage of
the discounted ticket price we have reserved for you, click
here
and use the promo code vsw33.
December
12, 2007:
AAMA
Connect 2007: Technology's Middle Kingdom
China's Rising Influence in Asia and the West
For years the annual Connect Conference has been facilitating
meetings between thousands of entrepreneurs, investors and
high-level executives. This event lays the groundwork for
many multimillion-dollar deals every year. Given the current
state of China's booming economy, and the changes and development
taking place in the Asia Pacific Rim, 2007 is sure to be
the most promising and invigorating conference to date.
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About Larta
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Larta Institute
Connecting People to
Drive Innovation
We manage the nation's
largest innovation pipelines. Larta Institute is a professional services firm providing
entrepreneur training, commercialization, and technology transfer
services for governments, companies, and universities.
The core of Larta's mission is to facilitate deal making
between qualified suppliers of technology and corporations seeking
outside sources of technologies as well as investors seeking
investment opportunities.
We accelerate the transition of cutting-edge technologies to the
marketplace by connecting innovators to investors and companies.
Our programs leverage our extensive network of relationships and
resources. Since 1993, companies helped by Larta Institute have
raised over $1.5 billion in capital. Our programs serve thousands
of businesspeople each year. Our electronic magazine on business
innovation is read by over 25,000 people.
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