INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada – The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy invites science and engineering doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty to spend a week learning to recognize, develop, and bring to market green businesses built on their research.
The five-day immersive program, from July 7-11, provides students with focused lectures, practical exercises, and hands-on experiences turning their science into viable business ventures. Throughout the week, students interact with Academy faculty, investors, entrepreneurs, and industry executives to understand the path from laboratory to market, and the resources that are available along the way.
Academy Format
The format of the Academy is a five-day immersive program integrating lecture, exercises, and team projects.
Students work within inter-disciplinary teams to identify, design, and validate new business opportunities, under the guidance of faculty, technology transfer staff, and experienced entrepreneurs and investors from environmental science and technology-based ventures.
Students in the workshop are introduced to the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship
Innovation strategies and work practices
Evaluating technology/market opportunities
Pursuing IP patenting and licensing strategies
Writing and communicating business plans
Building and managing interdisciplinary teams
Modeling finance and investment strategies
Rapid prototyping and testing strategies
Participants leave with the knowledge and skills needed to recognize, develop, and communicate potential commercial and knowledge distribution opportunities arising from their research and how to tap the social networks linking them to the entrepreneurial community.
Academy Mentors and Speakers
We bring a range of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to the Academy to participate as coaches, mentors and speakers. The following VCs and Angels are confirmed for 2008:
American River Ventures
CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund
DFJ Frontier
National Instruments
Nth Power
Physic Ventures
San Diego Gas & Electric
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Sierra Angels
Southern California Gas Company
For more information, click on NCET.Org
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