AEC focuses global attention on next-gen generation
By GREGORY ZELLER // The future is imminent for AEC 2018, the Advanced Energy Conference that will unite global energy leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs in New York City on a…
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Topspin finds an inspirational Remedy in NYC
A Long Island-born investment fund with a taste for tech has acquired an award-winning Manhattan-based digital health platform. Topspin Partners, formerly headquartered in Roslyn Heights and now based in Mamaroneck,…
Old friends, new funds have ThermoLift thinking ahead
By GREGORY ZELLER // A shining star of Stony Brook University’s commercialization and innovation ecosystems is renewing ties with an old friend – and leveraging some fresh international funding –…
Composite deposit unites ThermoLift, CPC
By GREGORY ZELLER // A pair of modest research grants will help one of the shining examples of Stony Brook University’s innovation ecosystem incorporate cutting-edge materials into its mechanical design,…
Northeast clean-tech accelerator primes for 2017
From the It Takes a Nation file comes the Cleantech Open Northeast, an annual Boston-based business-accelerator program with a major-league reputation for assisting “clean technology” startups – including clean-tech startups…
Innovations, advice abound in SBU’s 2017 Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // These boots are made for talking – and now, several enterprising innovators have a firmer grasp on what to say, and how to say it, when…
Energy, life sciences pace 2017 Innovation Boot Camp
By GREGORY ZELLER // Several innovators sitting on potentially game-changing technologies have been selected for one of Long Island’s most effective commercialization crash courses. Stony Brook University has announced the…
Spotlight on ThermoLift’s Gen-2 Prototype
By GREGORY ZELLER // ThermoLift’s second-generation TC-Cycle has made a whirlwind multistate debut. Representatives of two U.S. Department of Energy laboratories traveled to Michigan in October to check out the…
The Debrief: Bob Catell’s newest application
Robert Catell has taken a board seat at Stony Brook-based anti-counterfeiting biotech Applied DNA Sciences, the latest addition to a résumé overflowing with executive accolades. A former chairman of KeySpan…
Hofstra mechatronics lift SBU startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // Well, that worked just like they drew it up. Inside three short months, ThermoLift’s strategic research partnership with Hofstra University’s Center for Innovation has engineered advanced…
Hofstra’s new approach to mechatronic mastery
By GREGORY ZELLER // An innovative Hofstra University certificate program is speeding professional engineers toward the multidisciplinary systems expertise required by 21st century dynamics. By focusing on mechatronics – the…
China patent, new tech heat ThermoLift’s summer
By GREGORY ZELLER // Technological advances and a first-ever international patent have made for a hot summer at ThermoLift, which is closing in rapidly on critical field tests for its…
A summer of endless incubation at CEBIP
By GREGORY ZELLER // Summer slowdown? Not at the Clean Energy Business Incubator Program, where a full slate of new clients and educational networking programs is giving a traditionally sagging…
Jasmine Universe is now officially a thing
By GREGORY ZELLER // World, meet Universe. Jasmine Universe, an energy-use startup developing technology to maximize efficiency in home and work environments, made its official public debut Thursday at Advanced…
Many hands on deck for ThermoLift 2.0
By GREGORY ZELLER // As you might imagine, ThermoLift’s natural gas-driven heat pump and air conditioning unit, a directed-energy device based on Vuilleumier Cycle thermodynamics, has many parts. Much like the…