Compete in Stanford’s Global Innovation Tournament via YouTube
Video submissions due by 9:00 am on Nov. 13 US Pacific Time
Do you have an entrepreneurial streak and an interest in solving global problems? Then get a team together and enter the 2009 Global Innovation Tournament, a fast-paced competition that challenges student teams to solve a common, world problem in about eight days, creating as much value as possible. Teams must show their results in a short video posted to YouTube. The mystery problem will be revealed on November 4 and submission will be due on November 13.
ITEC will judge the BU team submissions and the winner will go on to compete against teams worldwide. The competition is conducted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. For more information about the contest and to sign up, visit http://www.unleashingideas.org/tournament/participate Please email itec@bu.edu if you’ve signed up for the contest.
Student Business Plan Boot Camp
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Registration full
An intense, one-day seminar on how to develop an investment-grade business plan. There is a $10 fee to cover the cost of lunch during
Boot Camp, payable in the ITEC office, 143 Bay State Road, 4th Floor. This event is open only to Boston University students. Space is limited and payment must be received to reserve a spot.
$50K Business Plan Competition
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
5:30 - 9 p.m.
School of Management, 4th Floor
Watch the finalists present their business plans which they have been refining for several months with the support of experts and mentors. Network, snack, and learn who the judges pick to win the competition.
Technology Entrepreneurship Night with SAGE
Friday, April 16, 2010
Event registration: 5:15 p.m. in the SMG Atrium
Panel discussion: 6-7:30pm
Dinner: 8:00pm
Friday April 16th is Technology Entrepreneur Night 2009, another exciting Boston University entrepreneur event, hosted by the Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (ITEC) and the Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE). Join venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, students, and faculty for an evening of dinner, networking, and panel discussions covering contemporary issues impacting both new and experienced entrepreneurs.
The topics for this year’s event include panels on energy, information technology, optical technologies, and starting your own company. Each panel consists of 3-4 experts and a moderator who will discuss such issues as the renewable energy landscape, how advances in IT impact the business models for start-ups, what new opportunities optics present in the 21st century, and tips for new entrepreneurs.
The attendance fee and registration method will be posted about two months before the event.
ITEC Recognition Night
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
School of Management 4th Floor
ITEC has a tradition of celebrating our graduates at an end of year event. In addition to recognizing our graduating students and giving them their Concentration Certificates, we take the time to thank those who have volunteered during the year as panelists, speakers, etc, to make help make our program a success. The event will run from 5:30 – 8:00 on Wed May 12, on the 4th Floor. We hope that you will be able to join us. Please RSVP.
Allegro Diagnostics: A Boston University Technology Commercialization Case Study
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Registration: 5:30pm, Event begins: 6pm
Room 208 School of Management
Over the past few years, two BU professors have brought their promising research to the world of molecular diagnostics and helped to create an exciting new venture-backed life sciences company, Allegro Diagnostics. Join us for a revealing panel discussion among some of the key players who have helped to write the Allegro story. Anyone who is interested in how technology makes the journey from the research lab to the practice of medicine will enjoy this session.
We will be joined by:
- Steve Ober, BU Technology Development Office (moderator)
- Andrey Zarur, Kodiak Ventures
- Dan Rippy, CEO of Allegro Diagnostics
- Jerry Brody, BU faculty researcher
- Avi Spira, BU faculty researcher
This event is free and open to the public. Please register.
Dialogs in Knowledge and Technology Transfer 2009:
Optimizing KTT pathways for unmet therapeutic needs
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.
BU School of Management
The workshop aims to examine the challenges facing Knowledge and Technology Transfer pathways in therapeutic treatments with a focus on neglected diseases and providing treatments to poor and developing countries.
Public research organizations have to maximize the likelihood of having their results being used to the benefit of mankind. Compared to the well established KTT pathways to develop and market therapeutic treatments for widespread pathologies in developed countries, there is a lack of clear optimal KTT routes to do so in to poor and developing countries.
The event is hosted by ITEC with support from the Kauffman Foundation.
$1K Business Concept Competition
Friday, October 30, 2009
Do you have an idea for a new venture? This is an opportunity for students to test their business concepts at a very early stage. No business plans are required. Selected students will present their business concepts to a panel of business experts. The application is due to ITEC on Oct 16. This event is open only to the Boston University community.
Entrepreneurial Finance Boot Camp
Friday, February 6, 2009
Learn basic accounting and finance terms and how to understand the numbers needed to run your business. The two sessions present identical information. There are two pre-assignments, which, while not required, increase the value you get from the Boot Camp. The assignments can be found on smgtools under the joinable site “ITEC Bootcamps." This event is open only to the Boston University community.
Real Estate Series
Friday, October 14, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
BU School of Management 4th Floor
Speakers:
Patrick Cavanagh, Senior Vice President, CB Richard Ellis
Patrick S. Boyle, Senior Vice President and Director, Bernstein Global Wealth Management
Moderator:
Rajiv Laroia, Principal, Laroia Realty, Inc.
TIE-Boston presents: Direct Ownership of Properties Vs. Indirect Ownership Through REITS: What Are The Drivers of Risk And Returns For Each Form of Ownership?
Around the world, the citizen sector is growing dramatically. As these social ventures grow - whether working to improve basic education for inner city kids, or to fight disease in the developing world - they face daunting organizational challenges. A new breed of social entrepreneur has stepped up to overcome these challenges. Dedicated to improving the social status quo, these change agents bring a fresh set of skills that combine business acumen, innovative field work and operational excellence to build large scale sustainable organizations.
No place better nurtures this new breed of social entrepreneur than Boston, which is home to nearly a fifth of the Fast Company Social Capitalist awardees as well as dozens of pioneering social enterprise investors.
The Forum for Social Entrepreneurs (ForSE) brings these social innovators together with leading business professionals, investors/donors, government officials, academics and students to facilitate the sharing of new technology and business ideas and hard-earned management learnings, and foster informed discussion and action on new social venture concepts.
ITEC is a sponsor of this event.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
SMG 220, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
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The Tough Get Growing: How to Succeed in a Down Economy
Monday, November 16
MIT’s Kresge Auditorium
6:00 – 7:30 pm Program;
7:30 – 9:30 pm Networking Reception
Free for ALL students with valid student ID
Register here
The current economic climate doesn't mean companies can't succeed. It just means the WAY a company succeeds has its own unique challenges. Hear the real-world experiences of entrepreneurs, the lessons they learned going from start-up to success story, and the research and best practices that will help you to get growing.
Panelists
Bo Fishback, Kauffman Foundation; Helen Greiner, iRobot / The Droid Works; Daphne Zohar, PureTech Ventures. Introductory remarks by MIT President Susan Hockfield.
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