Boston Business Group Announces Corsair Innovations of Plymouth as winner of Head Health Challenge

PLYMOUTH, Mass. - Feb. 3, 2016 - PRLog -- Belmont based Boston Business Group announced today that a key client, Corsair Innovations of Plymouth, MA is one of five nationwide winners of the Head Health Challenge III, a national open innovation challenge created to help accelerate the development of energy-absorbing materials to protect against head injury.  The topic of concussions in sports is being widely discussed and this award by the NFL to Corsair Innovations is a major step forward for the company.

The Head Health Challenge competition is sponsored by the NFL, Under Armor, GE, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).The open innovation competition was created to support the discovery, design and development of advanced materials that better absorb and/or dissipate impact. The Company’s new textile based materials have the potential to improve the performance of protective gear, playing surfaces, and equipment for athletes, members of the military and others.

Phillip C. Thomas, CEO of Boston Business Group, expressed their pride in Corsair by saying, “We are proud of the accomplishments and work of the team at Corsair Technologies.  It is a pleasure to help guide a company with such strong growth potential and accomplishments recognized in this way.”

As a winner, Corsair Innovations will receive $250,000 to advance its work in developing state-of-the-art energy dissipating materials. A panel of leading experts in the field of materials science selected these five winners from 125 entries because they met the Challenge’s technical criteria to maximize energy absorption and minimize momentum transfer. One overall Head Health Challenge III winner will be selected from the five awardees to receive a $500,000 grand prize.

Corsair Innovations, working with the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth has developed their textile, which uses tiny, spring-like fibers to repel rotational and linear impacts, thereby reducing potential damage. Unlike foam materials, this textile is washable, breathable, wicks sweat and can be easily engineered to meet impact performance requirements.

Head Health Challenge III, part of the larger Head Health Initiative, which is a four-year, $60 million collaboration between GE and the NFL.  It is one of three open innovation challenges to invest up to $20 million in research and technology development to better understand, identify and protect against brain injury. Challenge I focused on discovering imaging and methods for diagnosis and prognosis of mild traumatic brain injuries, and in July 2015, six grand prize winners were awarded $500,000 to further their revolutionary research. Challenge II focused on new technologies to monitor, identify and protect against mild traumatic brain injury, and in December 2015, three grand prizewinners were announced.

The current Head Health Challenge III collaboration helps implement a pledge by NIST and the Department of Commerce to invest resources to accelerate the development of materials that can protect against concussions, made at the White House’s Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit in May 2014.

For more information about the Head Health Challenge, visit headhealthchallenge.com.

About Boston Business Group

Boston Business Group, LLC (BBG) helps companies build tangible value through operational and leadership improvements designed to accelerate corporate profits and performance. Based on the key components of ever improving leadership skills and operational excellence, BBG provides a pragmatic, objective, and common-sense approach to organizational improvement, accompanied by several world-class programs for leadership skills development on the part of senior executives. BBG’s experience spans a wide variety of private and public company types and industries including high technology, manufacturing, healthcare, communications, and security products.

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