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[September 2006]
MRS Launches Second Entrepreneurship Challenge
The Materials Research Society (MRS - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) has launched the second MRS Entrepreneurship Challenge, an international competition pairing students and professional materials scientists and engineers with business school students to develop concepts for materials based start-up companies. The grand prize is US$3,000 and the top three teams will each additionally receive travel funding of up to US$3,000 so that they can present their entries at the 2007 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The deadline for registration is 15 December 2006.
While face-to-face meetings are not discouraged, the challenge is structured to be virtual. Materials scientists and business students from around the world are encouraged to partner and collaborate on their technology ideas/business plans via phone or internet. Business plans will be submitted to MRS headquarters where they will then be forwarded to a judging panel of venture capitalists who are also geographically dispersed, This approach allows for networking across and between schools and continents.
www.mrs.org/entrepreneur
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