Blog Posts - InnovationNew Jersey

ANGELS, OTHERS, REACT TO NEW OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY ANGEL TAX CREDIT EXPANSION

8/5/2019

From New Jersey Tech Weekly
The program, which provides a tax credit for a percentage of an angel investor’s investment in a qualifying emerging New Jersey tech or life science business, will help attract early-stage and growth capital for innovative New Jersey companies. Under the expanded program, the available tax credit has now increased from 10 percent to 20 percent of a qualified investment, with an additional 5 percent bonus available for investments in a business located in a qualified opportunity zone or in a low-income community, or investments in a business that’s certified by the state as minority- or women-owned. Please read more here.

Realogy launches voice-powered digital assistant for agents

8/2/2019

From NJBIZ
Madison-based Realogy Holdings Corp. launched Agent X, a real estate focused Alexa Skill. Agent X will be available to Realogy’s affiliated agents from Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker NRT and ERA at no additional charge to them. Read more here.

Tech Trends: Avis’ Amin, Fetch’s Steinberg explain how Big Business, startups can team up

8/2/2019

From ROI-NJ

At the April Association for Corporate Growth New Jersey meeting called “Large Corporate Connects with Early-Stage Innovators,” startup founders got a glimpse of a real-life interaction between an enterprise like their own and a big company. The candor was refreshing. Not everything goes smoothly when startups and large companies interact, but the results for both parties are often worth the effort. Please read more here.

Rodney Priestley named Princeton vice dean for innovation

7/31/2019

Rodney Priestley, professor of chemical and biological engineering and a leading researcher in the area of complex materials and processing, has been named Princeton University’s vice dean for innovation, effective Feb. 3. The newly created position provides academic leadership for innovation and entrepreneurship activities across campus. Please click here for more.

Innovative tiny laser has potential uses in drug quality control, medical diagnosis, airplane safety

7/29/2019

In a major step toward developing portable scanners that can rapidly measure molecules on the pharmaceutical production line or classify tissue in patients’ skin, a Princeton-led team of researchers have created an imaging system that uses lasers small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip. The team demonstrated the system’s resolution by using it to image a U.S. quarter. Fine details like the eagle’s wing feathers, as small as one-fifth of a millimeter wide, were clearly visible. Read more here.

Researchers at NJIT use big data to track, treat drug abuse

7/26/2019

For nonprofits aiming to treat drug addicts, getting real-time, actionable information on this fast-changing landscape can be difficult, given the rapidly evolving underground culture of hardcore abuse. For example, street names for drugs, hot spots where users go for their fix, and new, dangerous strains laced with different substances change frequently and regularly. More here.

Can New Jersey Reclaim its Leading Innovation State Stature?

7/26/2019

From New Jersey Business magazine

New Jersey has the assets to compete globally in the innovation arena, it just needs to leverage them, New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA’s) President and CEO Michele Siekerka today told the audience at VOICE Summit 2019, a voice-tech conference held this week at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. The venue was perfect to advance NJBIA’s vision “to see New Jersey reclaim its stature as the innovation state” – a theme spelled out in one of her first slides shown at the conference for cutting-edge technology. More here.

PSEG to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2046 with vision of net-zero by 2050

7/25/2019

From NJBIZ
As part of its Powering Progress vision for the future, Newark-based PSEG announced it expects to cut its power fleet’s carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2046, from 2005 levels. PSEG also announced its vision of attaining net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 assuming advances in technology and public policy. The company said it is committing to reporting annually on sustainability and climate using the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures framework, starting in 2020. More here.

Game on: Entrepreneur from Newark shows off latest app — and technology’s potential — at VOICE Summit

7/25/2019

From ROI-NJ

For all the big players at the VOICE Summit 2019 — top officials at Amazon, Samsung and Microsoft all delivered opening-day keynotes — the essence of the conference can be found in the exhibition hall of the Wellness and Events Center on the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology. It’s the place where startups and emerging companies present their products with dreams of making it big. It’s where you find entrepreneurs such as Taseen Peterson, co-founder and CEO of Gamefuly and a native of Newark. More here.

E-Commerce Titan and Entrepreneur Jennifer Fleiss to Keynote NJBIA Women Business Leaders Forum, Sept. 20

7/25/2019

Entrepreneur Jennifer Fleiss, the co-founder of the two successful e-commerce businesses Rent the Runway and Jetblack, will be keynote speaker at NJBIA’s 5th Annual Women Business Leaders Forum “Owning Your Success” on Sept. 20. The Forum will be held on Friday, Sept. 20 at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, with a welcome reception on the prior evening, Sept. 19. More here.

CBRE's 2019 Scoring Tech Talent report: Coming in at #28...

7/24/2019

More than 6 million highly skilled workers across the U.S. and Canada comprise the tech talent that is leading global innovation. Shrinking availability of tech talent in leading markets has spurred a spillover of hiring momentum in smaller and upstart markets in the U.S. and Canada as expanding tech employers seek additional labor pools. More here.

Voice Technology is the New Digital Frontier

7/24/2019

From New Jersey Business
Billed as the world’s largest voice event, the New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting Voice Summit 2019, sponsored by Amazon Alexa, this week. The four-day, voice-tech conference, which kicked off yesterday and runs through July 25, is exploring all facets of voice technology, giving attendees a glimpse into how this next generation of technology might seamlessly integrate into their lives, much like smartphones have over the course of the past decade. Read more here.

College students gain experience, Inspira gains apps: How health network taps into young talent

7/20/2019

Glassboro, NJ - Health technology is where the money is at. It’s also why some of the most basic things, like app development, are so expensive. The growing industry involves a lot of pitching ideas to industry professionals — but Inspira Health recently reverse-engineered that process and is utilizing its innovation center to groom a new generation. “It’s kind of like taking an internship and flipping on its head,” Dave Johnson, vice president of innovation, said. Using what essentially amounts to a request for proposal process, the health system went to New Jersey’s higher education facilities with a pitch for two different applications to be designed: a security app and a productivity app.

Montclair State Recipient of NSF Discovery Research PreK-12 Grant

7/20/2019

Montclair, NJ - Montclair State University Department of Mathematical Sciences Assistant Professors Eileen Murray and Joseph DiNapoli will be leading a team of researchers on a project funded by a four-year $1.7 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) grant. Each year, the NSF awards a small number of DRK-12 grants to projects that have the potential to transform the education system. Montclair State researchers have received $532,224 for the project “Building a Teacher Knowledge Base for the Implementation of High-quality Instructional Resources through the Collaborative Investigation of Video Cases.”

Newark Among East Coast’s Best Cities for Tech Talent

7/20/2019

Newark, NJ - Total tech occupations grew 9.7 percent from 2013 to 2018 in Newark, New Jersey according to CBRE’s annual Scoring Tech Talent Report, which ranks 50 U.S. and Canadian markets according to their ability to attract and grow tech talent. The CBRE report ranks Newark as a top east coast market with more than 53,000 tech jobs, most in software development, computer programming and database system management.