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State accelerator program fosters CU Boulder spinoff companies

Taking a well-researched, high impact idea to market can be a challenge. But thanks to grants provided by the state of Colorado’s Advanced Industry Accelerator (AIA) programs, some 21 businesses have been spun from CU Boulder.

Solar instruments

$90 million solar instruments head to Florida for launch

A solar instrument package designed and built by CU Boulder and considered a key tool to help monitor the planet’s climate has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a targeted November launch.

Magnesium ingot

CU Boulder spinoff modernizes magnesium production

CU Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods.

Tracking Boulder's air quality in real time

Tracking Boulder's air quality—and generating public data—in real time

CU Boulder researchers and Colorado public agencies have partnered to create an automated emissions monitoring system that tracks methane and other harmful atmospheric gases to generate publically available data in near-real time.

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Colorado economic indicators continue strong growth in Q2

New business filings exhibited strong growth year-over-year in the second quarter of 2017, raising future employment expectations, according to a CU Boulder report released today by Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams.