The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is a facility dedicated to the research, development, commercialization, and deployment of renewable energy and energy [...]
The National Institute of Health (NIH) is investing $248.7 million in new technologies to address challenges associated with COVID-19 testing. NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) [...]
The COVID-19 crisis is highlighting how it can fuel innovation and collaboration across different sectors all over the world to address the pressing needs that we are all facing. Here are a few [...]
Medical Researchers, Life Science Companies, and COVID-19 Survivors Launch a National Campaign to Drive Blood Plasma Donation. Working together under “The Fight is in Us” campaign, this group is [...]
The U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dan Brouillette recently announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will be awarding 256 grants totalling $53 million to 211 small businesses in 35 states and the [...]
Last year, the Government launched the American Artificial Intelligence Initiative to support AI innovation that will increase prosperity, enhance national security, and improve quality of life [...]
Scientists at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory are launching a project to apply machine learning methods to a myriad of health and environmental datasets to try and predict COVID-19 [...]
Despite the issues in the United States health system, health innovation is an area that the U.S. has excelled in the past. The U.S. intellectual property laws and drug approval processes are [...]
The COVID-19 Pandemic has generated a myriad of responses in the business community. What has been truly inspirational however, is the response of the private sector in demonstrating strength, [...]
In a statement released yesterday, the U.S. Department of Defense officially adopted a series of ethical principles surrounding military applications of Artificial Intelligence. The adoption of [...]
Minnesota Invention Index - October 2020
The Invention Index measures a country’s or state’s innovation output by comparing GDP growth with patent production growth. Minnesota Invention Index October 2020: 1.52% (B grad [...]
Minnesota's Patent of the Month - October 2020
Nobody likes turbulence when flying — that unpleasant, anxiety-inducing shake of the plane after the windows suddenly darken. We know that weather can affect the quality of a flight, but did you know the aerodynamics of a plane can be affected by something called [...]
