The eSPRIT program (Entrepreneurial Students Participating in Research and Innovative Technologies) provides students the opportunity to work as teams on real business decisions facing startup companies and BU professors looking to commercialize their research.
As part of entrepreneurship courses, students can work with their professor and a team of fellow students to analyze market opportunities for emerging products. Last fall, student teams in SP 853 Entrepreneurial Management worked with Austrian companies to explore market entry opportunities in the U.S., while other teams worked on translational research at BU.
Through the eSPRIT program, students may continue to work with the same company throughout the year, looking at a different angle of the business each time. In the end, the students gain extensive experience in a particular field, and perhaps make a positive impression, leading to a job offer after graduation.
In the spirit of eSPRIT, Anirban Chatterjee GSM’08 and Paul Mier continued working the BU technology after their course finished. The duo entered the ITEC $50K Business Plan Contest and won 3rd place with their plan for AutoNAIS.
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