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.

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.

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.

NEW! Venture Collaborator Tool

Open an account today.

NEW! Mentoring

Attention Mentors

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

$20,000 for young inventors from Ashoka!

Biomedical Student Innovators! Enroll in the BMEidea 2009 Competition

ADVANCED?

Getting Started as an Entrepreneur

Former NCIIA student E-Team Grantee Commercializing EpiPen 2.0

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

Congratulations AI2V Graduates, Greensulate,

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

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