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Press Releases & Media ArchivesMarch 4, 2010 (Xconomy) The La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit held yesterday at the Salk Institute was a smaller and a much more modest affair than the inaugural summit that Connect CEO Duane Roth organized last year.
February 26, 2010 (The Wall Street Journal) Mark Schmid, SD Sport Innovators board member, featured in The Wall Street Journal cover feature.
February 25, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Greener Dawn, which focuses on sustainability, clean technology and energy efficiency, has announced an alliance with NBA legend Bill Walton. Bill Walton has joined the Green Dawn team as their Green Ambassador to help brand and market the company on the local and national level.
February 23, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) The city of San Diego had a prominent mention in New York City’s 2010 State of the City address. Why?
February 19, 2010 (San Diego Business Journal) CONNECT has named Phil Jelsma, Bill Walton and Jim Waring to the CONNECT Association board of directors, the organization said Feb. 16.
February 18, 2010 (Crain's New York.com) She announced High Tech Connect, patterned after a successful program in San Diego that pairs budding tech companies with successful entrepreneurs in the industry, and helps them develop business plans and find work space.
February 18, 2010 Working with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) CONNECT has developed a new set of tools to help member companies and local entrepreneurs identify federal research funding opportunities. CONNECT members should email membership@connect.org for their username and password for accessing the secure system from Calit2. . Visit the portal at www.connect.org – click on the “Capital” icon and choose “Federal Grants Database.”
February 18, 2010 (CONNECT Document) The last quarter of 2009 saw a major increase in activity on all fronts. A number of our graduates were honored in prestigious competitions.
February 18, 2010 (Press Release)
February 17, 2010 Neil Senturia of San Diego News Network engaged in a lively sparring match with long time friend Alan Webber, founding editor of Fast Company magazine and author of Rules of Thumb, at last month’s MIT Enterprise Forum. “Change is a math formula … wouldn’t you like to know what the formula is?”
February 15, 2010 (The Daily Transcript) Priority areas are speed, responsiveness and forward presence that networks and related systems provide.
February 11, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) San Diego’s Connect, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping build clean-tech, high-tech and biotech businesses in the county, is opening an office in Washington, D.C., to lobby the federal government to provide more support for innovative startups.
February 8, 2010 (San Diego Business Journal) Most high-tech entrepreneurs and innovators don’t have time to put on a tie and sit through a three-hour meeting about policy issues in Washington, D.C. They are too busy creating the next generation of digital mobile applications and lifesaving health care products, and creating jobs for the new innovation economy. There has not been a strong voice or presence in the nation’s capital to represent these innovators, who neither have the money nor bandwidth to lobby or educate representatives on their needs and interests — until now.
February 8, 2010 (Xconomy) Connect, the San Diego non-profit that supports local technology and entrepreneurship, says it is opening an office in Washington D.C. “to be part of the process,” and to represent the interests of San Diego’s innovation community.
February 8, 2010 (Press Release) CONNECT today announced that it is opening an office in Washington, DC to ensure that there is a strong link between the San Diego innovation community and the federal government.
February 5, 2010 (San Diego News Network) CONNECT San Diego is building its presence in Washington, D.C. The nonprofit accelerator for San Diego technology and life sciences companies is hiring a full-time D.C.-based director to represent San Diego’s innovation community, and to build relationships with legislators and advocate for policy.
February 4, 2010 (Press Release) Steve Hoey is promoted to Senior Program Manager and Linda Wells to Program Manager
February 4, 2010 (Press Release) CONNECT today announced that Garrett Hale, Madelaine Holden and Ashley Strange have joined the organization.
February 1, 2010 (The Daily Transcript) The politics behind patent reform are both what's holding it up and also the only thing that will propel it forward. This is what U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) told technology and life science industry members at a Connect event Monday. Issa said it has been a struggle to get the Senate and House to collaborate on a meaningful reform bill, and the partisan rancor in Washington hasn't helped either.
February 1, 2010 (Press Release) CONNECT today announced the nomination and approval of Paul Laikind PhD, Bruce Breslau and Helder Sebastiao PhD as the newest members of the CONNECT Foundation 501(c) 3 Board of Directors.
January 2010 (Press Release) A new Kauffman Paper called: From a Trickle to a Tidal Wave has been released and was co-authored by Duane Roth, CONNECT CEO. The paper outlines a potential solution for filling our drug development pipeline and protecting U.S. global dominance in biomedical products. Roth and co-author Pedro Cuatrecasas, a biochemist and adjunct professor for the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, say their distributed partnering model could foster productive, efficient advancement of biomedical innovations.
January 26, 2010 (Xconomy) Duane Roth, CONNECT CEO writes about the Distributed Partnering Model a new funding model for innovation proposed by Roth and Pedro Cuatrecasas a professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and of Internal Medicine at UC San Diego that was just recently published as a paper called From a Trickle to a Tidal Wave by the Kauffman Foundation.
January 25, 2010 (Kauffman Paper) Duane Roth, chief executive officer of CONNECT is the co-author of a new Kauffman Paper that outlines a potential solution for filling our drug development pipeline and protecting U.S. global dominance in biomedical products called: From a Trickle to a Tidal Wave. The paper’s authors say drug discovery is in jeopardy and recommend new 'distributed partnership' model for speeding therapeutic products to market. The paper indicates the United States could speed the flow of new therapeutic drugs into thirsty industry pipelines by creating a new model for drug discovery and development. Roth and co-author Pedro Cuatrecasas, a biochemist and adjunct professor for the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, say their distributed partnering model could foster productive, efficient advancement of biomedical innovations.
January 25, 2010 (San Diego Business Journal) CONNECT Teams With Bill Walton, Establishes New Trade Organization In Support of Local Sports and Entertainment Industry
January 22, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Connect in San Diego has been renowned for linking up academic researchers and entrepreneurs with investors and business mentors, mostly in technology and biotech fields. Now it is setting its sights on the sports and entertainment industries. The nonprofit organization has named Bill Walton, a former UCLA and NBA player and TV sports commentator, as executive chairman of Connect Sports and Entertainment Innovators.
January 15, 2010 (Malakye.com) The sport and entertainment innovation cluster is more than 600 companies strong in San Diego and a regional economic powerhouse. Yet until now, no trade organization has existed to help young companies in the industry to find funding, source innovation or understand business basics. To help remedy this situation, CONNECT is incubating a new sports and entertainment trade organization. San Diego native and lifelong resident, Bill Walton, who also starred at UCLA and in the NBA, will champion the effort as Executive Chairman.
January 14, 2010 (San Diego Metopolitan) CONNECT, the nonprofit organization that promotes the growth of San Diego’s high-tech and life science industries, is “incubating” a new sports and entertainment trade organization and has chosen basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton to lead it as executive chairman.
January 5, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) As we start the first full week of 2010, here’s how some local leaders are resolving to make San Diego County a better place to live.
January 2, 2010 (San Diego Union-Tribune) The year 2009 is now history, and 2010 is fertile territory for dreams. So I polled several local leaders on their views of the best of 2009 as well as how they hope to make San Diego a better place this year. Here is their take on the most significant events of 2009.
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December 11, 2009 (San Diego Business Journal) The technology trade group Connect held its annual Most Innovative Product awards Friday, announcing winners in six categories and one special award.
December 3, 2009 (The Daily Transcript) The future of health-care reform has been dangling like a dark cloud over the White House and Congress ever since President Obama took on the challenge for change. November legislation cleared the first hurdle when the House came up with a convoluted bill that is still being debated this week in the Senate.
October 28, 2009 (San Diego Union-Tribune) While it may be popular to advocate for recognition of today's entertainers and sports performers, lobbying for their canonization to the derision of the cities where they were raised is, at best, misguided.
October 21, 2009 (San Diego Union-Tribune) The evaporation of much of San Diego’s hometown venture capital base has prompted the city’s technology community to organize a business task force to find new ways of getting startup capital to early stage companies.
October 16, 2009 (FierceBiotech) Congress is getting set to consider a bill that would help provide new funding for fledgling tech businesses, including biotech start-ups.
October 15, 2009 (Union Tribune) San Diego is home to the largest cluster of wireless companies in the world and a growing wireless health cluster of innovation. This burgeoning industry comprises more than 200 companies and is a vital part of our economy.
October 6, 2009 (North County Times) The consumer electronics boom has produced a corresponding plethora in something less desirable: ever-growing mountains of discarded cell phones, cordless phones, PlayStations, GameBoys, iPods, etc. But what if you could get rid of e-waste as easily as you bought it ---- and get some money back?
September 28, 2009 CONNECT, regarded as the world's most successful regional program linking inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success, today announced the finalists for the 2009 Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Awards. Winners will be announced on December 11th at the MIP Awards Luncheon, held at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, to an audience of over 800 of San Diego's top executives, entrepreneurs, service providers and academics.
September 21, 2009 (San Diego Business Journal) Connect, a 300-member trade group based in San Diego, issued its much-anticipated second-quarter Innovation Report on Sept. 16 that examines crucial sectors of the region’s economy and offers insight into the rebound under way among life sciences and technology startup firms.
September 15, 2009 Once upon a time, the U.S. industry was prolific in developing new and innovative medicines.
September 15, 2009 (U.S. News) It's a recession, so few things are booming and no city is exactly thriving. But within the tech industry, some cities clearly have more job opportunities than others.
September 15, 2009 (San Diego News Network) Start-up companies and federal grants in the life science industries also see jump in second quarter this year. San Diego’s technology and life science industries are seeing signs of renewal.
September 15, 2009 (Xconomy) A just-released report on San Diego’s innovation economy shows 102 new technology companies were created during the three months that ended on June 30—a 53 percent increase over the 66 startups launched during the first three months of 2009, and 34 percent more than the 76 companies started during the second quarter of 2008.
September 14, 2009 (San Diego Business Journal) The sands of venture capital markets are shifting amid a protracted recession that’s stifling the prospects of many technology startups.
September 11, 2009 Dr. Tim Tully bounds into the lobby of his sleek Sorrento Mesa facility, greets me and charges off to one of his two offices; one he occupies as Chief Science Officer of Helicon, the other as CSO of Dart Neuroscience LLC. We settle into the second space, looking out over the hills and scrub to a distant view of the ocean, and Tully begins the Helicon story. It is the story of a quest and how this company, recently transplanted from Farmingdale New York, is searching for a scientific Holy Grail: the biological basis of memory and the creation of drugs that will enhance cognition.
September 7, 2009 (San Diego Business Journal) With venture capital funding all but dried up for many life sciences startups, some have turned to agencies that specialize in navigating complex government databases and matching businesses with sometimes lucrative grants.
August 21, 2009 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Lots of people have been saying the VC model for funding technology innovation is broken. Now San Diego’s Duane Roth has some ideas for ways the regional technology community can try to do things differently.
August 20, 2009 (Forbes.com) San Clemente, Calif.-based Kerosene and a Match (KaaM), launched in 2008 by Cleve Adams, aims to amp up online searching with software that acts as a complement to Google, Yahoo! or any other search engine by allowing users to rummage through non-text-based content such as images, audio or video.
August 2009 (San Diego Metropolitan) San Diego is home to more than 650 action and sports companies, serving such markets as surfing, skating, skiing, lifestyle and street wear. Now CONNECT S.I., which stands for Sports Innovators, formed this January, is helping accelerate the growth of these emerging action sports, sporting goods and traditional sports companies.
July 29, 2009 (press release) CONNECT, the architect of San Diego’s innovation economy, today announced a major expansion to address the challenges and opportunities to commercialize early stage San Diego technology innovations.
July 2009 (press release) CONNECT, the San Diego region’s non-profit technology and life sciences accelerator, released its 2009 first quarter CONNECT Innovation Report (CIR) on June 15. The report, developed in partnership with the National University System Institute for Policy Research, University of California, San Diego Extension, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Procopio, tracks and measures the state of San Diego’s and California’s innovation economy. The data reports federal research funding to San Diego has sharply increased and start-ups were up over the same period in 2008. Venture capital investment in San Diego fell to its lowest level in twelve years.
May 13, 2009 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Duane Roth, CEO of San Diego’s Connect (and an Xconomist), was elected today as vice-chair of the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency.
May 2009 (Entrepreneur Magazine) Business incubators--organizations that help entrepreneurs get off the ground through mentoring, funding and facilities--have been around since the 1950s. At the turn of the millennium, for-profit incubators were a hot commodity until they deflated with the dotcom bubble. But this year, despite a down economy, the luster is returning to incubation. President Obama has pledged $250 million a year in federal funds to seed a regional network of such organizations--an effort aimed at growing jobs and innovation. So people are talking about incubators again.
May 7, 2009 (Malakye.com) CONNECT Sports Innovators, an accelerator program dedicated to emerging action sports, sporting goods and traditional sports companies in San Diego, announced today, the newest members to its 2009 advisory board. CONNECT Sports Innovators currently reaches out to more than 900 action, sports and active lifestyle companies; an increasingly technology-centric industry that employs between 25,000 and 35,000 San Diego residents and includes everything from surf to bike to golf gear.
April 9, 2009 (Xconomy) San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has referred to SPAWAR, the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, as one of the city’s best kept secrets, and I started to understand why during a presentation yesterday at San Diego’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.
April 4, 2009 (San Diego Union-Tribune) A sort of debutant ball for high-tech scientists unfolded in La Jolla this week in an effort to introduce the region's top professionals and their cutting-edge ideas to venture capital investors from across the country. Instead of ball gowns and big hair, there were lots of PowerPoint presentations and gray suits, and talk of how hair can be turned into embryonic-like stem cells for therapeutics and drug testing. The inaugural La Jolla Research and Innovation Summit was organized to show investors where San Diego's many research institutes are heading in biotechnology, clean tech, wireless and information technology.
April 3, 2009 (Xconomy) Connect CEO Duane Roth says that when he was organizing an “innovation summit” to showcase San Diego’s prowess in advanced research and innovation, he wanted to start each session of the two-day event with a scientific headliner as keynote speaker. And J. Craig Venter, who gained fame for his sequencing and analysis of the human genome, lived up to his billing as summit’s opening act yesterday.
April 2, 2009 (San Diego News Network) About 100 venture capitalists gathered in La Jolla on Thursday to learn about scientific discoveries that could fuel the clean tech, biotech and wireless technology industries of the future.
March 23, 2009 (Press Release) CONNECT, San Diego’s technology and life sciences accelerator, graduated 118 companies from its Springboard program and high-tech and life sciences mentoring program over the past four years and 89, or 75%, are still in business. On average, these 89 companies are making an average impact on the San Diego economy of $3 million per company, according to two new studies released today.
March 19, 2009 (Press Release) CONNECT has developed a new program, The La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit - a closed meeting to showcase San Diego research excellence to an exclusive group of 50 out-of-town venture capitalists. Josh Green, Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures said, “We are eagerly awaiting the CONNECT La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit – San Diego seems to be an untapped market with an extraordinary amount of innovation and opportunity for future investment.”
March 17, 2009 (Xconomy) San Diego’s spirit of entrepreneurship remained resilient in 2008, despite a credit crisis that precipitated one of the worst financial periods in U.S. history, according to Connect, a San Diego nonprofit group that promotes technology innovation and entrepreneurship.
March 16, 2009 (Press Release) CONNECT’s Fourth Quarter Data Reveals New Company Start-up Creation Better Than Expected; Higher Local VC Investment Compared to Q3; Patent Applications Up
February 20, 2009 (Press Release) CONNECT Sport Innovators will host a premier networking event, Connect with CONNECT, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. San Diego is home to more than 650 action & sport companies in the surf, skate, swim, snow, moto, wake, lifestyle and street wear industries that are leading the latest high tech, clean tech and online technology. Local sport innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs will gather to check out the latest tech gear and demos, get connected with key players and pick up on trends that are driving customer acceptance in diverse segments of the action sports industry.
February 9, 2009 (Press Release)
January 19, 2009 (Press Release) Neal Blue, chairman and CEO of General Atomics, and Linden Blue, vice chairman of General Atomics, will be inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame on Jan. 28, by CONNECT, the San Diego region’s non-profit technology and life sciences accelerator.
January 12, 2009 (Press Release) CONNECT, one of the nation's most successful regional economic development programs for life science innovators, inventors and entrepreneurs, is accepting applications from companies to participate in its 2009 Life Sciences Venture Roundtable scheduled for March 10.
January 11, 2009 (Voice of San Diego) "Like so many things in the world of finance, the way in which small start-up companies in San Diego and elsewhere get their seed money might be forever changed by the crash of 2008.
January 7, 2009 (Press Release) MIT Enterprise Forum to Provide Expert Insight into Igniting a Profitable Business’s Growth Potential; Jan. 21
January 7, 2009
December 22, 2008 (Daily Journal) Feel the adrenaline rush. The heart-pumping thrill of riding a wave, careening down an icy slope or skate boarding into bliss. You are a champ. December 16, 2008 (biz San Diego)
December 15, 2008 (San Diego Metropolitan)
December 13, 2008 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
December 12, 2008 (Xconomy)
November 25, 2008 (Daily Business Report) "Almost two decades ago, when this product was first launched into the market, Connect awarded the 1989 Most Innovative New Product Award to MedStation," says Duane Roth, CEO of Connect. "MedStation revolutionized the industry with new ..."
November 24, 2008 (Press Release)
November 19, 2008 (Press Release) Brilliant Minds in Life Sciences and Health Care To Gather in San Diego for Annual Leadership Conference
October 31, 2008 (Video) Overview video of the mission and role of CleanTECH San Diego
October 14, 2008 (SignonSanDiego.com) Despite the growing sluggishness of the local economy, San Diego County was a strong center for high-tech business startups during the first half of the year, with strong year-to-year growth in entrepreneurial activity.
October 1, 2008 (UT News Article) Self-described tinkerer and car enthusiast Tom Boyd was a successful salesman with no engineering training 3½ years ago when he came up with an interesting idea for a vehicle steered by its rear wheels.
September 18, 2008 (NY Times News Article) So far, San Diego remains a fertile breeding ground for entrepreneurs, despite the problems in the broader economy.
September 29, 2008 (Press Release) CONNECT, one of the nation's most successful regional economic development programs for high technology and life science innovators, today announced the finalists for this year’s Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Awards. The winners will be announced December 12th at the 21st Annual MIP Awards Luncheon, held at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, to an audience of over 800 of San Diego's top executives, entrepreneurs, service providers and academics.
July 14, 2008 (Press Release) CONNECT, one of the nation's most successful regional economic development programs for high technology and life science innovators, announced that it has added two new award categories for the 2008 Most Innovative New Product (MIP) Awards -- action and sport technologies and aerospace technology -- to mirror new economic growth and achievements in the sectors.
May 17, 2008 (News Article) At the center of this beehive of entrepreneurs is Connect, a non-profit organization founded in 1985. Connect teaches entrepreneurs how to form companies and commercialize technologies. It also hosts events that brings together people from academia, business and finance.
May 01, 2008 (Radio Interview) Camille Sobrain, COO of CONNECT, is interviewed on NPR's These Days Show talking about the clean movement.
March 22, 2008 (Video) Most Innovative New Product Awards 2008 winner, Voz Sports, is featured on KUSI
March 3, 2008 (Press Release) CONNECT, CleanTECH San Diego, BIOCOM and UC San Diego Set 5 p.m. event as part of Frontiers in Science lecture series
February 28, 2008 (San Diego Business Journal) While sports-related businesses in the county employ more than 30,000 people, according to the San Diego technology and life sciences networking group Connect, the action sports industry often gets overlooked by investors. Its entrepreneurs tend to be younger and less polished, says Thompson, but they compensate for their lack of formal training with youth and passion.
February 25, 2008 (Press Release) Recognized Authority on National Security and Reactor Physics to be Honored for 40 Years of Business, Technology, Civic Achievements
February 25, 2008 (Press Release) Applications Being Accepted from Entrepreneurs to Present to Investors at Private Showcase on May 7
February 11, 2008 (shop-eat-surf.com Article) Two items arrived in my inbox lately that I think are of interest to some of you out there, especially the emerging brands. Two groups are offering business advice to help take companies to the next level. One is a new San Diego-based organization Action & Sport Innovators (ASI), which is offering free mentoring to entrepreneurs to help them tap into financing and connect with other resources. ASI is having its inaugural networking event this Tuesday night in San Diego. Details about ASI and the event are below.
February 11, 2008 (Press Release) Expert forum to provide perspectives from Cambridge, Menlo Park and San Diego,
February 4, 2008 (Press Release) Incubated within CONNECT, new business accelerator expected to help fuel multibillion-dollar industry
January 10, 2008 (Press Release) Fallbrook Technologies Inc. to display and discuss their Nu Vinici® CVP, a gearless technology transforming modern transportation
January 11, 2008 (KUSI Video) Action Sports Innovators' founder, Marco Thompson, was in our studio Friday morning to share with us why San Diego is the Mecca of the action sports industry.
January 1, 2008 (CONNECT Document) A look back at CONNECT's 2007 programming activities, financial status, and membership body
November 28, 2007 (Press Release) CONNECT and Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP Host Policy Forum to Outline Impact on San Diego Tech Companies
November 19, 2007 (Press Release) Product developed by Cymer Inc. to receive Otterson Award for Enabling Semiconductor Chip Production
November 6, 2007 (Press Release) Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Ferring Research Institute Host 2nd Annual Peptide Therapeutics Symposium Nov. 10
October 29, 2007 (Press Release)
Roundtable Open to Companies and Scientists Interested in Presenting Technologies to San Diego Venture Capital Community
October 17, 2007 (Press Release)
One year, 29 grants and $38 million dollars in funding later, San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine invites diverse panel to discuss progress in stem cell research
October 16, 2007 (Press Release) Over 10 years as Policy Advisory to U.S. Congressman, Significant Media and Political Experience
October 15, 2007 (Press Release)
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