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		<title>BlueInGreen to Help with Oil Spill Cleanup</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/07/19/blueingreen-to-help-with-oil-spill-cleanup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlueInGreen has developed technologies that provide oxygenation and ozonation of fresh water. The government is counting on the firm to adapt its techniques to salt water, providing much needed oxygen to areas of the Gulf impacted most heavily by the spill.]]></description>
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		<title>An INOV8 Memorial Day: Somber with a Dose of Fun</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/27/an-inov8-memorial-day-somber-with-a-dose-of-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, as many of us enjoy a three-day holiday weekend and do so in many innovative ways, let's welcome in the unofficial start of summer and have fun with family and friends. By all means. But let's make the time on Monday to remember those whose ultimate sacrifices afford us the opportunity to do it.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From BioVentures VC Forum, Part 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/24/notes-from-bioventures-vc-forum-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/24/notes-from-bioventures-vc-forum-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcarter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BioVentures initiative at UAMS held its fourth-annual Private Equity Roundtable May 13-14 in Little Rock. The forum allowed BioVenture's biotech startups to pitch their technologies and services to national venture capitalists.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from BioVentures VC Forum, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/19/notes-from-bioventures-vc-forum-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to stand out among a field of promising startups? Then hand out custom breast prosthetics to a group comprised mostly of middle-aged men. That's exactly what ContourMed CEO Susan Cassidy did.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from BioVentures VC Forum, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/17/notes-from-bioventures-vc-forum-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/17/notes-from-bioventures-vc-forum-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcarter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not often one gets the chance to compare biotech startups to cattle. But Mike Douglas was not unlike a cattleman taking his prize bulls to market last week.]]></description>
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		<title>BioVentures Startups Make Pitch to Biotech VCs</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/14/bioventures-startups-make-pitch-to-biotech-vcs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/14/bioventures-startups-make-pitch-to-biotech-vcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcarter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startups solicited investments ranging from $20,000 to more than $5 million. VCs in the house represented the West Coast, Boston, Austin and points in between. BioVentures director Mike Douglas expects funding to find its way to "2 or 3" firms that pitched this week. ]]></description>
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		<title>The VCs are Coming: BioVentures Roundtable Set May 13-14</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/12/the-vcs-are-coming-bioventures-roundtable-set-may-13-14/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/05/12/the-vcs-are-coming-bioventures-roundtable-set-may-13-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcarter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venture capitalists from across the country will meet up in Little Rock this week for a showcase of the best UAMS has to offer in terms of new technology commercialization. ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Innovate Arkansas Technology Venture Showcase</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/18/techpreneurship-innovate-arkansas-technology-venture-showcase/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/18/techpreneurship-innovate-arkansas-technology-venture-showcase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next IA Technology Venture Showcase will be in Little Rock at the Winrock HQ on March 17th from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: George Rathmann &#8211; Biotech Pioneer</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2009/11/19/techpreneurship-george-rathmann-biotech-pioneer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980, George and a few other intrepid techpreneurs and research scientists jumped out of their corporate jobs and academic positions to create a new kind of company...]]></description>
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		<title>Bioscience Research and the Arkansas Delta</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2009/09/29/bioscience-research-and-the-arkansas-delta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arkansas Delta. That underachieving older sibling to the state's golden children --  the Ozarks and the Ouachitas. You know, the ones we clean up and shuffle out for guests.]]></description>
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