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I2V: Green Ventures 2009
May 20, 2009
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AI2V: Rice University
May 19-22, 2009
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Bioscience AI2V: Creighton University
May 28-30, 2009
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I2V: University of Southern Maine
June 5, 2009
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AI2V: New Jersey
June 8-11, 2009
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I2V at ICE
June 18, 2009
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AI2V: Boston
Aug 3-6, 2009
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SBIR Workshop
Aug 7, 2009
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Women and Entrepreneurship
Aug 16, 2009
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NEW! Venture Collaborator Tool

Need to collaborate on a commercialization project? Google Doc's doesn't quite cut it when working with external advisers.  Find out how our free online tool is changing the way students, ventures, coaches, mentors and advisers share information and interact with one another.

Open an account today. 

NEW! Mentoring

NCIIA grantees make note that you can now be assigned an NCIIA Mentor, with other industry mentors (non-NCIIA) brought in as per your needs.  Contact humera@nciia.org for more information.

Attention Mentors

Interested in working with young technology entrepreneurs emerging from higher education?  See why so many are signing up to work with bright and highly-talented teams solving today's most pressing problems.  We're looking for industry experts across many sectors who have experience in taking early-stage ventures to the next level.  Contact humera@nciia.org to apply. 

In down economy, Portland-area campuses and community benefit from innovation workshop

"...Several speakers specifically took on what they called the myth of "you can't start a venture in the current economic downturn" and provided out-of-the-box examples of successful ventures they have recently launched..."  More

$20,000 for young inventors from Ashoka!

Visit inventyourworld.org/ and mtv-venture.org/switch/ to enter.  Deadline: December 31, 2008.

 

Biomedical Student Innovators! Enroll in the BMEidea 2009 Competition

Start your company with the validation, national recognition and cash prize you could potentially receive.

BMEidea 2009

 

Join Invention to Venture Group

 

Join our new Facebook group called Invention to Venture. Here, you can network with others working on new ventures.  You'll also find links and resources of value.

 

ADVANCED?

Advanced Invention to Venture  If you have a technology and the team and you're serious about your commercial opportunity, then AI2V is for you.  Click here for more information or contact us to register.

 

Getting Started as an Entrepreneur

Check out Getting Started as an Entrepreneur, NCIIA's student guide to entrepreneurship.

 



Former NCIIA student E-Team Grantee Commercializing EpiPen 2.0

Credit card sized 'EpiCard' a novel device for people with allergies to self administer intramuscular epinephrine. Read about it here

STUDENTS! Get Grant Funding for Your Venture's Seed Capital

You can apply for up to $20,000 in E-Team 'product development' funding here (Next deadline: December 5, 2008).  Unsure about your proposal?  Email
us a one-page abstract for feedback from our grants manager.

 

Congratulations AI2V Graduates, Greensulate,

Winners of the Amsterdam-based '2008 Green Challenge' competition.

 

Founders of Ecovative Design, Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, attended Advanced Invention to Venture in August 2007.  Since then, they've won a grant from New York's NYSTAR, top place in ASME's 2007 I-Show competition and the 'Tomorrow's Planet' winner of the 2007 Oxford Business Plan Competition.  Their first product, Greensulate, is a low cost, biodegradable, rigid board insulation, replacement for Styrofoam.  Read more about this exciting company here.

 

 


We are very generously sponsored by the Lemelson Foundation and Microsoft's 2009 Imagine Cup Competition.  I2V was founded, in part, due to funding from the Kauffman Foundation.

 

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