Awards & Recognition
Nature Medicine: Competition Aims to Revive Languishing Breast Cancer Inventions
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March 4, 2014 - The Center for Advancing Innovation's competition is reviving breast cancer inventions by NATURE MEDICINE
The US National Cancer Institute's massive portfolio contains roughly 1,800 inventions, but many of those new therapies and technologies aren't improving the lives of patients with cancer. Ethics rules prevent NCI researchers from launching companies to develop new products, and existing biotech firms often aren't willing to take risks on such early-stage research. In an effort to propel more of those inventions out of the lab and into the clinic, the NCI partnered with two nonprofits—the Avon Foundation for Women, the philanthropic arm of the New York–based beauty company, and the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), a public-private partnership aimed at advancing technology transfer—to launch a competition aimed at identifying entrepreneurs eager to develop these therapies and devices for women with breast cancer. |
Challenge.gov: Best in Business Plans/Entrepreneurship
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October 9, 2015 - BEST IN BUSINESS PLANS/ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Challenge.gov Celebrates Five Years of Open Innovation
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) hosted senior leaders and Federal innovators from across the federal government, including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and United States Agency International Development (USAID) on Oct. 8 to celebrate five years of public-sector prize competitions and open innovation on Challenge.gov. In 2013, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in partnership with the non-profit Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), and the Avon Foundation for Women launched a first-of-a-kind, international university-based competition through which 478 people were trained in the “business of science” and entrepreneurship. Through the creation of startup companies, the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge (BCSC) represented a new model to accelerate the transfer of federally funded inventions to the marketplace. In 2014, several NIH Institutes partnered with CAI to launch the Neuro Startup Challenge (NSC) which is centered on promising neuro-related technologies. |
HHS Innovates: Secretary's Pick Award in Innovation
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July 21, 2014 - HHS Innovates Award
The Center for Advancing Innovation won the HHS Innovates Secretary's Pick award for orchestrating the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge together with the National Cancer Institute and Avon Foundation. |
Federal Laboratory Consortium: Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
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November 19, 2014 - Federal Laboratory Consortium Technology Transfer Excellence Award
The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge won the Federal Laboratory Consortium's Technology Transfer Excellence award today. Thomas Stackhouse, Jenny Wong, Stephen Hewitt and Rosemarie Truman were at the event to receive the award. The challenge created a novel platform to advance breast cancer inventions by launching startups around 9 National Cancer Institute (NCI) inventions and 1 invention from Clemson University. The model can be used across Federal Labs to get more inventions commercialized. We're currently running the Neuro Startup Challenge and hope to launch 1-2 more challenges in 2015, one with NASA. |
White House: One of President Obama's "Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship"
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November 30, 2016 - FACT SHEET: Celebrating President Obama’s Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship, and Announcing New Steps to Build on These Successes, recognizes the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge
Today, in celebration of National Entrepreneurship Month, the Administration is releasing a Top 10 list of President Obama’s most significant specific actions to promote American entrepreneurship, as well as announcing new efforts to build on these successes. The President’s unprecedented focus on the role of startups in the United States’ innovation economy is exemplified by his launch of Startup America in 2011, a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the Nation. |
White House: 100 Examples of Obama's Leadership in Science, Technology, & Innovation
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June 21, 2016 - IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Breast Cancer Startup Challenge is recognized by the White House in "IMPACT REPORT: 100 Examples of President Obama’s Leadership in Science, Technology, and Innovation" under #36 of 100. On January 20, 2009, President Obama issued a simple and powerful pledge: to restore science to its rightful place. Coming into office, the President was committed to reinvigorating the American scientific enterprise through a strong commitment to basic and applied research, innovation, and education; to restoring integrity to science policy; and most importantly, to making decisions on the basis of evidence, rather than ideology. |
White House: The Center for Advancing Innovation is a "Powerful Innovation Toolkit"
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October 29, 2015 - White House, Applying the Innovation Toolkit to Bring Cancer Nanotechnology Inventions to Market
The Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer employs a range of innovative strategies to bring cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Nanotech Startup Challenge in Cancer launches to create new high-impact companies around promising nanotechnology cancer-related inventions. To support the United States as a nation of innovators, the Administration has introduced many tools to the Federal government’s innovation toolkit. As described in the Strategy for American Innovation, these tools are aimed at uncovering the best ideas, wherever they may lie, and creating opportunities for those ideas to find their way to the marketplace. It is rare to find a program that opens that toolbox as wide as the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge for Cancer (NSC2) — an open-innovation competition designed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the non-profit Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to bring promising cancer nanotechnology inventions to market. Please spread the word and participate as a mentor/advisor/team member. |
Nature Biotechnology: The Center for Advancing Innovation is the "Tinder for Startups"
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April 11, 2017 - The Center for Advancing Innovation is the "Tinder for Startups!" by NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY
This August a project will launch for matchmaking undiscovered intellectual property (IP) in oncology with talented management teams. The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) will start accepting applications for the initiative, known as the 'Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge' (FCSC), designed to spur biotech startup creation around commercially viable cancer-related IP. |
GAO: The Center for Advancing Innovation Effectively Engages Citizens for Tech Transfer
