Four entrepreneurship professors from Indiana University are listed as top researchers in their field in a research study authored by three Howard University scholars.

Dean A. Shepherd, the Randall L. Tobias Chair of Entrepreneurial Leadership and professor of entrepreneurship at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, has been appointed editor-in-chief of The Journal of Business Venturing.

According to new published research, many organizations fail to implement evidence-based policies that encourage whistle-blowers to report wrongdoing internally and suffer the consequences.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has achieved another top ranking for entrepreneurship. In the just-released 2009 World Rankings for Entrepreneurship Productivity, Kelley's Department of Management and Entrepreneurship received the No. 1 ranking among 150 schools worldwide in the study. The study was based on figures from 2008.

Jack Stack, chief executive officer of SRC Holdings, will visit Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as a Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation on Friday (March 27) in Bloomington.

An Indiana University School of Optometry faculty member's company is nearing completion of a diagnostic camera that could aid in saving the vision of millions of people worldwide. Dr. Ann Elsner, director of IU's Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research, believes screening to prevent one of the most devastating aspects of diabetes -- vision loss and blindness from diabetic retinopathy -- could be expanded to millions of underserved people if a more affordable diagnostic camera were available.

The Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation has granted Indianapolis-based Prosolia, Inc., the option to license an IU Bloomington technology that promises to improve medical, forensic and scientific endeavors. And thanks to a new STTR (small business technology transfer) grant from the National Institutes of Health, Prosolia's scientists will work with Steven J. Ray and Jacob T. Shelley in IU Bloomington chemist Gary Hieftje's research group to develop the Hieftje group's "ambient" mass spectrometry device into a market-ready product.

Zac Workman, an honors student in Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, heads up one of nine student-run companies featured by Inc. magazine in its new list of "America's Coolest College Start-Ups."

Dane A. Miller, co-founder of Biomet, will be the guest of Indiana University's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Kelley School of Business on Tuesday (Feb.17) as the center's Distinguished Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

David Gard began his new role Dec. 1 as executive director in Indiana University's Office of Engagement. Gard assumed the position after more than two years as a deputy director with the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

David Gard began his new role Monday as executive director in Indiana University's Office of Engagement. Gard assumed the position after more than two years as a deputy director with the Indiana Economic Development Corp.

In a twist on typical business competitions, students participating in this week's IU Internal Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) will sit as venture capitalists, reviewing pitches for capital from actual entrepreneurs, all while real venture capitalists judge their teamwork and communication skills.

Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will recognize nearly 60 Indiana companies as finalists at its annual Indiana Entrepreneurial Leadership Awards.

The Indiana University Research & Technology Corp.'s board of directors has chosen IU Executive Director for Engagement Tony Armstrong as its new president and CEO. Armstrong won't need much time to adjust to the role -- he's helmed the IURTC and its business incubator, the IU Emerging Technologies Center, on an interim basis since early April.

Mark S. Long announced today he will be stepping down as president and chief executive officer of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. on March 30. Long will remain a special adviser and consultant to IU Vice President for Engagement Bill Stephan through the remainder of the year. Stephan is expected to head IURTC on an interim basis while the university seeks Long's successor.

Herb Kelleher, founder and executive chairman of Southwest Airlines Co., will make a return visit to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as the Distinguished Entrepreneur in Residence of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Friday, Feb. 8 in Bloomington.

The Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. has agreed to license iOffice 2.0 to University of Cincinnati International Services. iOffice is software that helps academies manage international student and scholar data. The program package was developed by Jason Baumgartner in IU's Office of International Services.

SpheroSense Technologies Inc. has entered into a licensing agreement with the Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. to develop market-ready biosensor technologies. SpheroSense has chosen a headquarters for its research and development activities on Bloomington's south side.

The third annual Indiana University Life Sciences Career Fair for IU students will be held Thursday (Sept. 20) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the IU Auditorium.

Fortune Small Business magazine reports that both the undergraduate and MBA programs offered by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business are among the top programs nationally "for aspiring entrepreneurs."

Indiana University faculty and staff filed a record 116 patent applications in fiscal year 2007. The increase is likely the result of stepped-up university efforts to encourage its researchers to develop their academic work with an eye for the market. The IU Research & Technology Corporation, which keeps track of university technology transfer and development activities, also received 216 invention disclosures, executed 70 licenses and options and helped form five new businesses in FY '07 (through its Emerging Technologies Center), also a record.

Applications are being accepted until Aug. 31 for the Indiana University Entrepreneurial Awards of Distinction, presented by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IU's Kelley School of Business.

Bioinformatics expert Sean Mooney, assistant professor in the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at the IU School of Medicine, knows the value of networking when it comes to starting a life sciences business.

Embracing innovation is the only way for Western businesses to succeed in the global market, says Indiana University economics Professor David Audretsch, whose new book, The Entrepreneurial Society, is due for release in July (Oxford University Press). He argues that labor will continue to be outsourced abroad as long as the tasks involved are routine and replicable, but companies that reward new ideas, niche markets and community collaboration can thrive on local employment.

The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has earned another national honor for its entrepreneurship program. The graduate program was named the 2007 National Model MBA in Entrepreneurship by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.