Campus Entrepreneurship

The $500,000 Global Security Challenge is back for another year after a successful events the last two years. While this is clearly a niche competition, the market it explores is huge and very important to people with a lot of money (the defense/security establishment).
From the competition’s website:
We seek to uncover the creative capabilities of innovators [...]

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Just a reminder that the finals of the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Business Plan Competition are tomorrow (April 26th). The finals are open to the public from 1-5 pm in the ICC Auditorium on the Georgetown University Campus in DC. I will be blogging live (assuming the wifi works) from the event. Between 4 and 6 finalists [...]

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Big prizes in this contest. The Minnesota Cup — a business plan competition in the land of 10K lakes  has doubled its prizes. Winners gets 50K in cash! From the Pioneer Press:
The Minnesota Cup, a statewide contest that promotes innovative business ideas, has doubled the prize money it will award its top three winners this [...]

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From Imperial College London:
The College-wide business plan competition, organised by Tanaka Business School and held on Thursday 13 March, provides both undergraduates and postgraduates with an opportunity to develop and present business ideas in a realistic environment.
The winning interdisciplinary team won the prestigious prize for their device called Tap Sprinkler, which focuses on providing quick [...]

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From Crain’s Cleveland: “Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management has received a $1 million gift to create a business plan competition for students and a new speakers series.”

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  Just received a notice about the Young Entrepreneurs Talent & Innovation Competition of the Americas. According to their website,
2008 the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT) will host the second edition of the Talent and Innovation Competition of the Americas (TIC Americas), an opportunity for young people worldwide to develop and present their business ideas [...]

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Interesting article about the Richard H. and Pamela S. Bard Center for Entrepreneurship, at University of Colorado-Denver, and some of its activities, alumni, and successes.
The center celebrated its 10th anniversary in December and appears to be pretty evolved. Its founder, Yash Gupta, was the Dean of the College of Business and Administration a decade [...]

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From here.
The deadline for submitting business plans for the annual Start Right! Women’s Business Plan Competition offered by Rockville Economic Development Inc. and sponsored by EagleBank and Foster, Soltoff & Love Ltd. will be Jan. 28. The competition is open to businesses that are at least 51 percent women-owned, active and in operation for [...]

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2008 National Student Entrepreneur Competition has been announced in Canada. It appears to be open to all undergrads and grads at Canadian Universities. The competition has provincial and regional rounds and is put on by a non-profit, ACE (Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship). Winner gets 10,000 Canadian dollars.

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