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Jun 25, 2013
June 3, 2013
Innovation Sparks Investments
The local innovation economy has been on a roll. Boston-based mobile app developer Mobiquity announced in April that it was expanding into...
April 26, 2013
Gainesville Connect Unveils New Website
Check out GainesvilleConnect's new website! The site is a unified web portal designed to entice and welcome new businesses, researchers, entrepreneurs and...
April 10, 2013
Final Four Selections for Cade Museum Prize
The Final Four inventions for the 2013 Cade Museum Prize include an artificial finger prosthetic, mobile software for taking bar inventory, a machine that burns...
March 1, 2013
Jack Rouse Associates Wins Exhibit Design Competition
The Cade Museum is pleased to name Jack Rouse Associates (JRA) from Cincinnati as the winner of the museum’s exhibit design competition. ...
January 3, 2013
Building the Creative Connection
The Cade Museum for Creativity + Invention recently chose the winners of the architecture contest for the design of the museum to be built in ...
December 18, 2012
Finalists Chosen for Exhibit Design Competition
Six firms have been chosen as the finalists in the Cade Museum's exhibit design competition that drew 27 entries from 14 states and Canada. The...
October 5, 2012
Design Unveiled for Cade Museum
From a national contest that drew 25 entries, GWWO, a Baltimore-based architectural firm, was introduced as the winner during a ceremony at the city of...
July 23, 2012
Six Design Teams Selected to Compete to Design Museum
Congratulations on Advancing to the "Short List" for the Cade Museum Competition!Here is the list of the firms on the Short List who...
July 9, 2012
25 Teams Submit Qualifications for Cade Museum Competition
We are delighted that 25 design teams have submitted their qualifications for consideration. The complete list is on our architectural design competition page. ...
May 22, 2012
Architectural Design Competition to Build New Museum
Non-Mandatory Architectual Briefing scheduled for 10AM Tuesday, June 19th Cade Museum Architectural Design Competition Seeks Innovative Building Design...
May 12, 2012
Past Winners Say Cade Prize Gave Them Instant Validation
Past winners of the Cade Museum Prize say they made good use of their $50,000 awards, but more helpful was the instant credibility that opened...
May 11, 2012
Cade Prize Goes to Tampa Company
BioAcoustic Tech of Tampa was the winner of the third annual Cade Museum Prize for its device developed at the University of South Florida...
March 28, 2012
Investor Network for New Companies Unveiled
Tuesday was a banner day for the University of Florida to show off some of the ways it is building momentum as a job-creation...
January 29, 2012
Cade Museum Open House
Samantha Flores, 12, right, and her Big Sister Melanie Saxon look at a tube of crystals being formed in an experiment helped by Marilyn Tubb, ...
January 13, 2012
30% Growth in 2012 Cade Museum Prize Applicants
The Cade Museum is very pleased with the initial results of the 2012 Cade Museum Prize. We received a record 120 entries from across Florida, almost...
November 8, 2011
Third Cade Prize Competition Announced
Its like the cherry on the sundae that is North Central Florida's growing innovation community. The Cade Prize for Innovation is off and running...
October 17, 2011
Pot of “Bed Tax” Gold - WCJB TV
It's a pot of gold that everyone wants a piece of. While Alachua County commissioners control the bed tax money, others are asking...
July 21, 2011
Projects Near Downtown Gainesville Offer Lots of Room for Innovation
"Dirt mounds portend the redevelopment of Depot Park with plans that include construction of the Cade Museum for Innovation and Invention and redevelopment of...
May 22, 2011
Creating a Plastic Alternative
The winner of the 2011 Cade Prize for Innovation hopes to replace plastic grocery bags, cups, milk jugs and other plastics with their degradable plastics...
May 12, 2011
UF Startup Florida Sustainables Wins Cade Prize for Innovation
A startup company with a biodegradable plastic invented at the University of Florida was the winner of the second $50,000 Cade Prize for Innovation. Florida...
April 11, 2011
Cade Museum Announces Four Finalists in Prize for Innovation
The final four hopefuls for the $50,000 Cade Prize for Innovation include a seizure detection device, a biodegradable plastic, indoor air purifiers and an exoskeleton...
February 15, 2011
Incentive for Inventors
Gainesville's innovation community is producing amazing ideas and products and for the second year there's a little extra incentive for inventors and entrepreneurs: the...
February 14, 2011
Finalists for Cade Prize Are Named
The final 16 hopefuls for this year’s $50,000 Cade Prize for Innovation include a device that detects traces of explosives using ultraviolet light, a...
January 27, 2011
Chamber Celebrates Year of Progress on Innovation Gainesville
Cade Miles is president and founder of The Cade Museum Foundation that last year awarded the first $50,000 Cade Prize for Innovation to Gainesville company...
December 21, 2010
The Super-Sized Cade Prize
To succeed, all they need is a little encouragement...and a lot of do-re-mi. Inventors and start-up companies across North Central Florida and the...
November 15, 2010
Prize Will Give A New Business the Chance to Expand
Winning the Cade Prize on June 11 opened new opportunities for Tutor Matching Service. The company, which uses social media to connect students and ...
October 8, 2010
Beyond Gatorade… The Legacy of Dr. Robert Cade
Dr. Robert Cade, who passed away in 2007, was more than just the inventor of Gatorade. He was a Renaissance man. A man of passion....
September 24, 2010
Talent, Collaboration Fuel Gainesville Innovation Initiative
That expansive vision channels the late Dr. Cade. Besides being a prolific inventor and highly regarded kidney specialist, he was a poet and musician...
August 31, 2010
Tutor Matching Service Builds Upon Cade Prize Success
After receiving the inaugural Cade Prize for Innovation in June, Tutor Matching Service (TMS) set its sights on national expansion. In the months since,...
August 3, 2010
County Pledges $600K in Tourism Tax Funding to the Cade Museum
On Monday, county commissioners vote[ed]... to dedicate $600,000 in tourism development tax funding toward the Cade Museum for Innovation and Invention planned for Gainesville's...
July 13, 2010
Richard Miles of Cade Museum Addresses Alachua County Commission (Agenda Item 10: 1:20 mark)
Cade Museum Vice President Richard Miles addresses the Alachua County Commission on the Museum's request for Tourism Development Tax Funding.
June 15, 2010
WCJB Technolgy Spotlight - The Cade Prize
A start-up company from Gainesville won an important prize on June 11th, but all of North Central Florida may end up the real winner. ...
June 12, 2010
Tutor Matching Service Wins Initial Cade Prize
Cheered on by some of Gainesville's most successful innovators, Gainesville startup company Tutor Matching Service received the first $50,000 Cade Prize for Innovation on Friday...
March 18, 2010
Cade Foundation Seeks Applicants for Entrepreneur Award
The Cade Museum Foundation is offering $50,000 to help an entrepreneur turn an innovative concept into a productive company.
January 15, 2010
Honoring Her Father’s Legacy
Phoebe Cade Miles' official residence may be Washington, D.C., where her husband, a Foreign Service officer, is based. But Miles, the daughter of...
October 8, 2009
UF Music Students Benefit From Gatorade Inventor Cade’s Legacy
The legacy of the late Robert Cade, the lead inventor of Gatorade, will not end with sports beverages. It will also live on in...
February 17, 2009
Ambitious Cade Museum Gains Support - The Gainesville Sun
Plans are advancing for the Cade Museum - a proposed three-story, 55,000-square-foot building near downtown Gainesville dedicated to the late University of Florida professor...
August 6, 2008
Cade Museum Site Announced
Gainesville, FL, August 6th, 2008—The Cade Museum Foundation has selected Depot Park as the location for its new museum of invention, and innovation,...