The “Young Entrepreneurs Initiative” (YEi) helps American-based innovative entrepreneurs willing to start or expand their activities to France, the stepping stone to Europe.

This year, the YEi competition will select 5 high potential entrepreneurs and provide them with a free business trip to France to meet potential partners. YEi will also accelerate their startup developments in France and Europe through customized mentoring and networking support. Application forms are due May 15, 2012 and accessible online.

Lemnos Labs is a hardware startup incubator based in San Francisco that provides mentorship and resources to talented engineers with innovative ideas and a passion for making things.

How do you define hardware?

Rather than focus on specific technologies, we will consider anything in the hardware field except for microchips. Everything from consumer products to aerospace/defense is fair game, as long as it is innovative.

How are you different from other incubators?

Dear Club Members,

It's our great pleasure to announce an unique opportunity to meet with Mr. Bruce Blomstrom, the president of the Pasadena Bioscience Collaborative (www.pasadenabiosci.org), and to learn how their wet lab operates and how they manage to the 24 companies working to develop their products.

The meeting/tour will take place on location at 2265 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 (~1.6 mile from Caltech campus), Monday, 3/19, 3pm and last about an hour max. No RSVP required. Just show up.

(An online certificate course on early-stage fund raising)

Register for this course here.

Program Description:

This online certificate course is an insider view to the early-stage fund raising process offered by the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF), Gust (the universal platform for early stage financing), and National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2). You’ll learn how early-stage investors identify promising startups, what needs to be in the business plan, how to build effective leadership teams, how to do a deal and what terms to avoid, and what to do after you get funded.

This course is for researchers, entrepreneurs, service providers, tech transfer people who are involved in raising funding for startup businesses.

Costs:

This certificate program course is offered at the cost of $297 for all 5 online classes. For students and post-docs, the cost is $75 (with verification), please contact support@ncet2.org for more info.

The Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) has launched the American Collegiate Innovation Video Contest. The contest challenges students to use their creativity and imagination in a three-minute video that demonstrates how federally funded scientific research has resulted in discoveries that have benefited society.

The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and a trip to Washington, DC to participate in an awards ceremony and a Congressional briefing at the U.S. Capitol.

Discover what it takes to develop an idea into a successful venture through an intensive four-week program for graduate students and researchers with backgrounds in engineering, medicine, science, and humanities. The Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship (SIE) offers the unique opportunity to build analytical and practical skills critical to business and building an innovative venture.

Dates: June 24 – July 20, 2012
Eligibility: Current Master’s and PhD students, as well as postdoctoral scholars
Final Application Deadline: March 15, 2012
(Rolling, competitive admissions; spaces are limited)

Application Requirements:
• Submit an online application (no fee required): Click on the “Non-Stanford Students Application” link at the SIE website: www.gsb.stanford.edu/sie
• Two letters of recommendation: 1) a letter from a faculty member or research adviser at your current institution; 2) a letter from anyone who can write about your skills, experience, and entrepreneurial ambitions

Contact Arden Grady, Program Coordinator for more details.

Click "Read More" below for tuition information.

Full details on the program plus the application are at www.hcp.com/summer. The deadline for early consideration applications is March 1st, 2012. The official deadline is April 5th, 2012.

In its fifth year, the "Summer@HIGHLAND" program is an entrepreneurship program designed to provide university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources for taking their initiative/company to the next level.

Selected teams will receive $15K and free workspace in Highland's Kendall Square or Sand Hill Road office.  They will have access to Highland professionals and an incredible founder network along with thought leaders in business, design, legal, product, talent and technology. 

In addition, Summer@HIGHLAND is “founder friendly”:  Highland receives no equity stake in exchange for a team’s participation, and teams are under no obligation to Highland after the summer.  It is also designed to be complementary with other accelerators (for example, teams can participate in both Y Combinator and Summer).

Friday, March 2, 2012
4:00-9:00pm
Grand Salon Room, Ackerman Hall
(Dinner to be provided by Chipotle)

Keynote Speaker: Howard Marks
Co-founder of Activision and StartEngine
(Click here to register now.)

What should one consider when taking an idea from concept to venture?

Idea2Venture will teach students and faculty through a series of interactive motivational seminars and panels about issues that need to be considered when transitioning an idea into a business venture.

Email: info@tecbruins.org

The Research Commercialization Introductory Course is a very popular online course designed to help science and engineering researchers better understand how research commercialization works. Generally over 4000 researchers from across the US take the course each time it is offered.

Please register by clicking here.

The Caltech Office of Technology Transfer will be registering for the following webinar:
"SBIR/STTR Grant Funding:
 Innovation Research and Technology Transfer"

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
10:00 am - 11:15 pm PST

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants now represent the largest source of early stage funding for innovative research and development projects. In this 75-minute program, Dr. Kris Johansen, SBIR/STTR Program Administrator for University of Iowa’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, will bring much needed business and valuation clarity to the nuances of SBIR/ STTR programs. Dr. Johansen will cover what every entrepreneur, intellectual property manager, investor, university and private researcher/scientist needs to know about SBIR/STTR grants.