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MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge

The Materials Research Society is pleased to announce Round 3 of the Entrepreneurship Challenge – a competition designed to help our members develop the entrepreneurial skills that get ideas out of the lab and directly into the marketplace.

Through the Entrepreneurship Challenge, scientists and business students form “virtual teams” to develop a 12-minute PowerPoint presentation that will present a startup technology to a panel of venture capitalist judges.  The grand prize is $3,000 – and the top three teams will additionally receive meeting registration and travel funding of up to $3,500 each to present their entries at the 2008 MRS Spring Meeting. 

Interested?  Read more about the competition. 

1. Got an idea?
   Scientists – Post your technology ideas and resumes to the site for business students seeking opportunities to market new technologies.
2. Interested in bringing a new technology to market?
   Business students – Post your resumes to the site for scientists seeking partners to bring their technologies to market.
3. Form your team.
   Prospective participants – Browse the posted technologies and resumes. Then, make contact to solicit partners and create your “virtual team”. Once formed, register your team for the competition.
4. Create and submit your PowerPoint presentation.
   Registered Teams – Utilize the instructions, examples and educational resources provided to learn how to best pitch your new technology and create your competition entry.

Documents

• 2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge Finalists
  The three finalists for the 2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge were determined prior to the meeting, and each presented their pitches at the Spring Meeting to compete for the $3,000 grand prize.
  
• 2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge Sponsors
  View a list of sponsors for the 2008 MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge.
• About the Competition
  Includes information about goals of the competition, entry expectations, eligibility, and prizes.
• Judging Criteria Score Sheet
  This is a PDF version of the evaluation (online survey) questions and is available here for reference.