Great events on the docket…
Oct 12-17: Newark Tech Week | 20th: Demo Day
Oct 15: NJDMC: Connected Experience @ Bell Works | Holmdel
ROI-NJ Family Business of the Year Award | E. Hanover
HERHealth 2026: What Women (And Men!) Need to Know | Edison
Oct 17: NJ Code & Coffee - October meetup | Newark
Oct 20: INNOVATE100 Social (invite only)
Oct 21: NJ Small Business Summit | Montclair State University
Nov 4-6: SOSV Deep Tech Summit | online
Nov 16: INNOVATE100 Social (invite only)
Nov 19: R&D Council Celebrates 2026 Edison Patent Awards | Holmdel
Here’s a reminder that the JT+I website offers many resources for entrepreneurs and innovators; there is also a LinkedIn page, so please follow.
Entrepreneurial Support
Government/EDA/SIC Hubs
Capital Resources
University Innovation
Hope to see you soon!
Jim Barrood and the Jersey Tech + Innovation Team
Thoughtful piece on goodness, courtesy of AXIOS:
How goodness spreads
A wealth of psychology and behavioral research lets us track the life cycle of a good deed. |
Why it matters: An act of kindness can benefit the person who does it, the person who receives it, and even people who witness it or hear about it.
How it works:
🙋 The doer: Volunteering and performing other acts of kindness — from donating blood to smiling at a stranger on the street — benefits the doer, according to an American Psychological Association review of several research papers. The perks include feeling happier and less lonely, anxious and depressed.
💛 The receiver: As we've reported, we tend to underestimate how much a simple gesture, like holding a door, means to the person on the receiving end. Plus, kindness can set off a chain reaction. People who benefit from a good deed are likelier to direct kindness to strangers themselves, Axios' Ashley May reports.
👀 The witness: Just watching someone do something nice helps, in a phenomenon researchers call "moral elevation." The boost people get from witnessing kindness also makes them likelier to spread it.
📰 Even reading about good deeds has an effect: In a 2023 study published in the journal PLOS ONE, people who read news stories about good deeds after reading negative news stories felt uplifted and more inclined to believe in the goodness of others.
What's next: We want to spread the goodness by reviving one of our favorite Finish Line series — sharing the good deeds you encounter with fellow readers.
Tell us about a random act of kindness you received or witnessed — from a friend, a family member, a neighbor or a total stranger — in 2-3 sentences. Send it to [email protected], along with your name and hometown, and we'll feature the stories in future editions.
