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INAM and the art of finding your first industrial customer
A clever material can spend years waiting for someone to use it. Berlin’s INAM brings scientists, manufacturers and investors together around a more useful question: what would it take to buy this?
MindSpark puts teachers where the problems are
A Colorado nonprofit sends educators into the world of work, then helps them bring it back to school. The revealing details are zebra mussels, a bike shop and the clubs that got cut.
i2i Opens the Doors Between Startups and Industry
Taiwan’s Innovation to Industry turns incubator space, government programs and corporate introductions into a route to market. Its international work gives founders a practical test: who, exactly, is ready to buy?
Propel Center Is Getting HBCU Talent Into the Room
Apple and Southern Company put up $50 million to help connect HBCU students with industry. Propel’s real test is what students get to make, who sees it, and where that access takes them.
The Tourism Board That Turned C$10.2 Million Into 1 Million Trips - With an Asterisk
Destination Ontario built a public-sector growth loop from research, stories and partner links. The useful bit is not the postcard - it is how the agency measures attention all the way to estimated trips and spending, then admits where the math and the channels changed.
Mohawk College Turned the Community College Into an R&D Partner - Here’s the Playbook
The Hamilton college found a sharper edge than adding more courses: let students solve live industry problems, let employers borrow the labs, and make applied research part of the education rather than a campus side project.
A Five-Year-Old University Is Trying to Make the Business Degree Prove Itself
International Business University has gone from 11 graduates to nearly 700 in two years. Its wager is simple: a young school can earn trust faster if every course leaves evidence an employer can understand.