The story of SpeakEZ, Inc. shows how university technology transfer is supposed to work. A company founded on entrepreneurial spirit and academic endeavor called on IPI to lend the fledgling firm a hand in commercializing the technology (used to identify the speaker on a telephone). Working with the faculty entrepreneur, IPI transformed a great idea […]
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From Mack Truck to High Tech, for Rutgers University, IPI designed, built and successfully managed the Rutgers Business Innovation Center in a factory building where chassis once rolled down the line. Buildings like this exist all over America. What was unique was the willingness of the University, the building owner (an architect) and a university-owned
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For New Jersey City University, IPI conducted the BDI feasibility study, wrote the business plan, recruited the manager, and assisted in obtaining financing for renovation of the facility. The goal was to help start-up businesses launch from BDI as healthy, growing and viable companies which will create jobs, improve the city’s economic presence in the
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In 2000, IPI was engaged by Battelle Labs to determine the feasibility of an incubator at Central State University, an accredited Historical Black College and University (HBCU), in Wilburforce, Ohio as part of a grant from the US EPA. IPI conducted a thorough assessment analysis and wrote the feasibility study and operating plan for the
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