My 7, 2010
| Riverside's hi-tech start-up Terrafore Inc. is one of the 13 recipients in the nation to receive DOE's solar energy research grants
U.S.
Department of Energy announced the selections of projects for
investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop,
and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems. Riverside's
Terrafore Inc., although a small start-up, was able to garner such
prestigious grant, alongside with other well-established companies such
as Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and General Atomics.
Terrafore will be using the DOE grant of up to $1.4 million to develop an efficient and economical thermal storage system for baseload power generation that takes advantages of the energy that is transferred when materials melt and solidify. For more details on the DOE CSP R&D grants and the recipients, click here.
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April 28, 2010
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Riverside still seeks to seize economic 'destiny'
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
The Press-Enterprise
Four months into a long-range plan that aims to improve Riverside's quality of life, making it easier to recruit businesses and keep existing ones, officials say the vision for the city's future is taking shape. The Seizing Our Destiny initiative, approved last December by the City Council, ultimately aims to create high-paying jobs by bringing private businesses, the universities and the city together to plan the city's future.
Sundip Doshi, CEO of Surado Solutions in Riverside, has led efforts in the plan and is now a "champion" for the initiative to make Riverside an innovative place to do business. His firm received a $300,000 grant from the city to create 10,000 square-feet of high-tech workspaces and incubation labs for biotechnology firms in his Surado Corporate Center in the University Research Park, something he's tried to do for about a decade. He credited the strategic vision with making it a reality.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Mosquito study has investor buzzing
UC RIVERSIDE: Researchers say an odor makes humans less desirable to the pest. It may one day turn into a repellant.
By KIMBERLY PIERCEALL
The Press-Enterprise
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Feb 3, 2010
| Avisio inks deal with UC Riverside and partners with City of Riverside
Avisio, a Riverside-based technology company, has inked a deal with the city of Riverside and UC Riverside to form Innovation Economy Initiative. The goal of this partnership is to strengthen the innovation cluster in Inland Southern California. The IE Initiative will utilize a multi-pronged approach to revive economic activity in the Inland Empire, encompassing Economic Development, Education, Commercialization, Capitalization, and Foundation programs.
For more details, visit www.theie.org
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January 4, 2010
| Riverside based Start-up, Jaal LLC, received $500,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Grant
StopTheHacker.com (Jaal LLC), a Riverside based start-up, received a phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation titled "Making the Internet safer one website at a time" No. 0956747. The project will develop a novel security capability for protecting websites against hackers by providing preventive and early-diagnosis "health-care" services and will receive $500K over the span of two years.
In more detail, the proposed work targets a serious growing problem: it is reported that 90% of the total 75M websites have serious vulnerabilities, while 6000 new websites are blacklisted by Google everyday. Web-based protection is today where the anti-virus market was in 1999. The project promises to safeguard the reputation of a website starting at prices that starts at two frappuccinos a month. The proposed technology can help prevent, detect and recover from a web-based intrusion. A key novelty is that the services are fully automated and they are offered on Software as a Service (SaaS) basis outside the firewall. Therefore, there is no software to install, and no need for the customer to change anything. The proposed technology fills a gap in the current security services: it is complementary to, but different from firewalls, anti-spam, anti-virus, and web-access filtering services.
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November 6, 2009
| Professor Robert Haddon, founder of Carbon Solutions was recruited to head up UCR’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Under Haddon’s leadership, the Center invested in six faculty positions and built a state-of-the art cleanroom, generated $60 million in research support, and developed new technologies in spintronics, supercomputing, and electronics that will affect the way that science and engineering are practiced, and will vastly improve our quality of life by bringing about revolutionary advances in electronics, computing, communications, engineering materials and medicine.
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June 24, 2009
| RTCF brings "Innovation" change to City of Riverside Slogan
First introduced by RTCF leadership to the mayor, the City of Riverside has adopted a new slogan - City of Arts & Innovation. "The branding of Riverside as the ‘City of Arts & Innovation’ is particularly fitting considering the vast opportunities present in the City’s universities, businesses, technology and sciences sectors,as well as the arts community,” said Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge. “Riverside is an exciting, urban, diverse and successful City and emphasizing our arts and innovation as our official brand will allow visitors and residents alike to better appreciate what the City has to offer.”
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