Ventures

Student Ambassadors

We work with great students to promote our program on campuses.

Learn about the program.

Meet our 2011-12 Student Ambassadors! 

Biomedical Competitions

BMEidea competition

• Open to all graduate and undergraduate student teams
• 2012 BMEidea competition deadline: Monday, April 2, 2012
• Learn more and apply

BMEStart competition

• Open to undergraduate student teams only
• BMEStart competition deadline: May 11, 2012
• Learn more and apply

IdeaLab

Generate ideas for great businesses!

IdeaLab is a highly interactive five-day workshop where  students develop multiple ideas and select the one(s) they want to pursue, form a team around that idea and develop advanced business plans under the mentorship of experienced entrepreneurs.

Keep developing your idea into a business, and you may be eligible for E-Team funding and to attend VentureLab!

Sign up for an upcoming IdeaLab:

• The Sustainable University, UMass Amherst
  

VentureLab

A venture accelerator for NCIIA grantees!

VentureLab is a highly experiential and immersive program developed and designed to enhance the success of your business idea: evolve your business strategy, sales channels and marketing and better understand the financial mechanics of your venture.

You'll get a plan and a set of tools that will help you grow your business for years to come.

Read this recent review from a VentureLab participant!

Get involved: Contact us for details about VentureLab.

Research to Innovation

A commercialization approach for scientists and researchers.

NCIIA offers workshops and resources designed to help scientists translate their findings into market-oriented technologies and products:

Research to Innovation workshops

Videos: Expert advice on venture development

Examples: how Chemical Centers of Innovation adopted Research to Innovation

VentureLab Online

The right advice at the right time!

NCIIA will connect you to mentors with the experience to help you move your venture forward. Learn more here, or get involved at VentureLab Online.

VentureWell

Take it to the next level. VentureWell provides venture development and seed investment to start-ups that will change the world. We select ventures that are emerging from U.S. universities and colleges and that are ready for incorporation and development. We provide advice and funding to ventures that offer scalable, market-oriented solutions to health and environmental problems. 

Learn more at www.venturewell.org 

Get started!

Contact us for information and advice on how to advance your idea or venture.

James Barlow  Humera Fasihuddin

Patricia Boynton 

Spotlight:

E-Teams we've funded. (Apply for an E-Team grant.)

NCIIA support and resources:

Publications:

• Getting Started as an Entrepreneur: A Guide for Students
• The Entreclub Handbook: An Operating Manual for Student Entrepreneurship Clubs
• Intellectual Property Primer.

Companies launched:

NCIIA grantees and award winners have launched more than 130 companies. Check these here.