The Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship fosters an entrepreneurial ecosystem at UAB and provides the infrastructure required for students, staff, and faculty to commercialize innovation on campus, within the community, and beyond.
Through partnerships with UAB schools, colleges, programs, and the local business community, the HIIE works to increase innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and businesses to launch sustainable startups with new or disruptive technologies.
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UAB start-up company revolutionizing production of nanofibers
Open the doors at TruSpin, and one’s eyes are immediately drawn to a machine spinning out a dense, wispy web onto an enormous spool suspended from above.
While this might look like a mad scientist’s method for making cotton candy, it’s actually the future of nanofiber manufacturing, and the nanofibers created have the potential for seismic impact in the scientific world.
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UAB start-up awarded $1 million grant to fight Shigella infections
UAB start-up SunFire Biotechnologies LLC was awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Defense to continue advancing an assay to support the development of Shigella vaccines.
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Collaboration benefits both campus inventors and MBA students
The Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE), a campus entity tasked with commercializing innovations developed by scientists, faculty and staff at UAB, recently collaborated with students in Dr. Douglas Ayers' Start-Up Planning and Pitching class in the Collat School of Business MBA program to develop business plans for two UAB technologies. This partnership culminated in presentations to a panel of local business leaders on April 20, 2022.
