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International acclaim for a local program - Explore Baltimore County Explore Baltimore County, MD - Apr 15, 2009 Explore Baltimore CountyInternational acclaim for a local programBy Kevin Rector What do Cambridge, England, and Halle, Germany, have in common with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus? The locations are home to the only three training programs for women entrepreneurs in the world to be recognized by

Viewpoint: 'Smart grid,' big savings - Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun, United States - Apr 09, 2009 Viewpoint: 'Smart grid,' big savingsThose steps add up to one of the biggest energy innovations on the horizon: the "smart grid," or what author Thomas L. Friedman calls the "Energy Internet." When energy is combined with real-time communication, you'll be able to load your dryer and

Md. Seeks Fed. Recognition for Sub Wreck in Potomac Near Piney Point - Southern Maryland Online Southern Maryland Online, MD - Apr 04, 2009 Md. Seeks Fed. Recognition for Sub Wreck in Potomac Near Piney PointThe sub's innovations go beyond the rubber coating, he said. The Black Panther possessed a "snorkel" that could be raised to expel exhaust. The pipe allowed the sub to use its more-powerful diesel engines underwater, instead of electric ones.

Envisioning the post-recession economy - Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times, CA - Apr 07, 2009 Envisioning the post-recession economyThat suggests that technological innovations gestating today could be the fuel of the next expansion. The most commonly mentioned candidates for the next boom industry are alternative fuels and other "green" applications.

NewsWatch: Slater to be named Maryland chamber chair - Business Gazette Business Gazette, MD - Mar 27, 2009 NewsWatch: Slater to be named Maryland chamber chairSolvern Innovations, a company at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park in Catonsville that specializes in research and development products and services, training and technology development, has established a Center of Excellence, the first for

International acclaim for a local program - Explore Baltimore County

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The locations are home to the only three training programs for women entrepreneurs in the world to be recognized by a partnership of six European universities formed in 2006 to study such programs.

FemStart, the university partnership, recently named the ACTiVATE (Achieving the Commercialization of Technology in Ventures through Applied Training for Entrepreneurs) program at the bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park as one of three "Good Practices" programs for training women entrepreneurs.

The other programs are in England and Germany,

The ACTiVATE program trains women with significant technical or business experience to create technology-based start-up companies in Maryland.

Kimberly Brown is one of those women.

"I had a science background but I had no formal business background" before the program, said Brown, who received a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2005.

Source: Explore Baltimore County, MD