Carolina KickStart is a program of the NC TraCS Institute, home of UNC’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from the National … More
<p>Carolina KickStart is a program of the NC TraCS Institute, home of UNC’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health. The program helps commercialize ideas and inventions to bring biomedical and technological discoveries to market for use by patients and other consumers. RENCI, a collaboration involving UNC, Duke, N.C. State and other universities, does cyberinfrastructure research and has programs to spur the development of technology infrastructure to move innovations into the marketplace. Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network is a unique program to accelerate the growth trajectory of promising startups in the Research Triangle Park region in North Carolina. The Network is an unprecedented collaboration between the region's major universities, its entrepreneurial community and the private sector.</p><p>This event supports the Innovate@Carolina Roadmap, UNC’s plan to help Carolina become a world leader in launching university-born ideas for the good of society. To learn more about the roadmap, visit innovate.unc.edu .</p>