January 9, 2009
In this issue
- Graduate Chapter Co-President
- Other Events
Upcoming Events
- 11/27 - Thanksgiving Day
What's New with InNUvation
1. InNUvation is looking for another Co-President for the Graduate School Chapter.
This position is open to any graduate student in a school within TGS, The Graduate School.
InNUvation is committed to providing resources for innovation and entrepreneurship across the Northwestern community. If you've enjoyed attending our events and hearing our speakers, consider joining our leadership team. A brief description of the Chapter President position is below. This is an exciting opportunity to become involved in InNUvation while gaining leadership experience and making contacts in the entrepreneur community. Please contact the other Co-President, Brandon Tefft, at btefft@northwestern.edu if you are interested or if you have questions.
Chapter Presidents
InNUvation Chapter Presidents are evangelists and managers. They are responsible for promoting InNUvation within their school through events that are specific for their school's student body as well as through marketing for InNUvation university-wide events. Chapter Presidents are encouraged to create their own teams at each school to help them effectively understand and reach their student body. The Chapter President's role and responsibilities include:
- Brainstorming new events specific to their school
- Monitor the progress of current events and programs
- Acting as the liaison between the school and the InNUvation Executive Committee
- Attending the InNUvation executive meeting once a week to report on school progress
- Expected time commitment: Three hours per week
Other Events
Entrepreneurs International Challenge
Time: Jan. 14, 2009 (deadline) Feb. 23-27, 2009 (event)
Keywords: EPIC, competition, prizes, entrepreneurship, ideas
Entrepreneurs International Challenge (EPIC) is a five-day international entrepreneurship competition hosted annually by the LSE Entrepreneurs (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33405154307), bringing together bright, ambitious students from 50+ universities across the world to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial skills. Inspired by the Apprentice, the two stage competition tests students on their Sales, Negotiation, Marketing, and Strategy skills in an entrepreneurial context.
The event has been running for 4 years, attracting well-known entrepreneurial leaders such as Karan Bilimoria, CEO of Cobra Beer and Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse, to speak and share their professional experiences with students from across the world. This year Sir Alan Sugar has been invited to launch the competition. Other speakers invited this year include James Caan, Levi Roots, Caprice Bourret and Brad Rosser amongst others.
Last year, the 2008 finals included teams from Thailand and Hungary, with the ￡3,000 cash prize ultimately being won by the University of Cambridge. The competition has two stages, a preliminary challenge round (deadline - 14th January) through which we shortlist the 10 finalists. The second stage is the finals week, involving a series of informative talks of well-known entrepreneurial leaders, workshops and challenges. The Finals will take place in London from 23rd February to 27th February 2009.
Please email us at epicuk@gmail.com to receive the preliminary challenge pack and case study or download them from our website at www.epicuk.org.
How do you enter?
The EPIC Preliminary Round is free of charge and open to all undergraduates and postgraduates from universities across the world. There can be multiple teams from the same university. The first step is to form a team of 4 members from the same university and register your team by e-mailing the following details to epicuk@gmail.com:
- Name of University
- Names of Team Members
- E-mail address of Team Leader
Third Annual National Security Innovation Competition
Time: Jan. 28, 2009 (deadline) May. 1, 2009 (event)
Keywords: NSIC, competition, prizes, entrepreneurship, ideas
The Third Annual National Security Innovation Competition (NSIC) for college and graduate students will be sponsored by the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator (CSTI) and the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance (CHDA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado on May 1, 2009.
NSIC 2009 is designed to stimulate interest by students in national security-related innovations and expose novel technologies to a broad audience including industry, academic, and government organizations involved in aerospace, defense, security, and first responder activities.
The competition is open to other new hidden object games to play online full-time undergraduate or graduate students at any college or university, including students who have graduated in new spongebob games here the last six months. The entries must be the original idea and work product of the student/advisor team. Cash scholarship awards will be made to the top three teams in the amounts of: First Prize - $5000, Second Prize - $2500 and Third Prize - $1000. NSIC 2009 is sponsored by the Science & Technology Division of the Department of Homeland Security and hosted by MITRE Corporation's Colorado Springs office.
The Entry Form must be completed and submitted by January 28, 2009. For more information, see http://www.coloradohda.org/index.php?p=nsic2009.
PDS 100: Commercializing Technology through the Power of IP Licensing
Time: Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 @8:30AM - 5:30PM, Location: Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL
Keywords: NSIC, competition, prizes, entrepreneurship, ideas
A dynamic one-day professional development workshop
SPONSOR: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun
Today's evolving and volatile business environment has companies focused squarely on the power of IP to help beef up the bottom line and maintain competitive edge. So, do you speak fluent IP?
If not, join us for this interactive one-day workshop for:
- IP Basics: patents, trademarks, know-how, trade secrets and more
- Smart strategies for creating, organizing, managing and securing IP assets
- Bringing IP to market - Commercialization
- Royalties and ideas for maximizing IP value and making money!
- Interesting case studies and an interactive deal negotiation by participants
Special registration fee for students
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