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A Resource for UC Discovery
Grant Students
Dec/Jan Focus: Business Plan Season
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Winners of the GSM/UC Irvine
Campus-Wide Business Plan Competition: from
left, David Arons, Cathleen Josaitis, Wei Xu, Dr. Tao
Xu, Wei Wei, and Aroonchat Chatchaikarn. Their plan
for improving hearing aid technology, Optical Nano Ear,
garnered the $15,000 first prize and professional services
to develop the idea further. Engineers Wei Xu, Wei Wei,
and Aroonchat Chatchaikarn are UC Discovery Grant students.
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The holidays are coming, and so is the season for business
plan competitions.
Campus business plan competitions are a great way to learn
about creating new technology ventures and to understand the
commercial potential of your ideas.
They’re not just for business school students either:
several competitions are dominated by engineering and science
students’ research and technology ideas.
You can participate as a team member or leader and contribute
technology know-how, business strategy, or both. Got a brilliant
idea but no team to share it with? Some campus competitions
will help you to assemble a team with a good mixture of talent.
Check the links below to find more on business plan competitions
at your campus, and see our calendar
for campus and local events in December 2004 and January 2005.
UC Business Plan Competitions:
UC Berkeley: UC
Berkeley Business Plan Competition http://haas.quimbik.com
and the Global Social Venture Competition www.socialvc.net
UC Davis: Big
Bang Business Plan Competition http://bigbang.gsm.ucdavis.edu
UC Irvine: GSM/UC
Irvine Campus-Wide Business Plan Competition (see photo above)
http://www.gsm.uci.edu/students/students.asp?useTopic=BusPlan
UCLA: Knapp New
Venture Competition http://www.uclamba.com/knapp/front.html
UC San Diego:
Venture Forth @ UCSD Annual Business Plan Competition http://ventureforth.org/events/ucsdbpc.html
UCSF: UCSF participates
in the UC Berkeley Business Plan competition http://haas.quimbik.com
UC Santa Barbara: Annual TMP Business Plan Competition http://www.tmp.ucsb.edu/events/bpc.html
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