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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. They can then join the team, and work with the crowd to further develop the idea.

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JumpStartFund Launches First Ever Crowd-Powered Portal For Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Helping solicit new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities and other R&D organizations countrywide. It gives members access to the disruptive power of the crowd to vote, comment and refine, and impact ideas in development to help build viable companies. How its online incubation works.

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6 Drivers For Aspiring Entrepreneurs To Finish School

Startup Professionals Musings

Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. They provide peer group organizations, usually called incubators, with free resources, practice environments, and outside mentoring that can help you learn and pivot with minimal cost.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups. A common question Monti receives is who would own the intellectual property rights if an employee develops a new product or service at the accelerator.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

When doctors implant devices to replace a patient’s missing bones or support damaged bones, those devices were probably designed, developed, and/or manufactured in Warsaw. These institutes of higher learning are encouraging innovators to develop work to impact the everyday lives of people around the world. The results?

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