IDEA TO PRODUCT™ EUROPE CHALLENGE 2008
Introduction
Do you want to develop businesses marketing new and exciting innovations? Is working on multi-disciplinary teams for you ideal? Does creating and presenting your innovation to an audience sound energizing? Not the least, do you want to win valuable prizes?
Then Idea-to-Product European Challenge is the opportunity you have been looking for.
Idea-to-Product Europe is an innovative competition inspiring the innovative spirit in students around Europe where participants develop a technology commercialisation plan to confirm the validity and market potential of a new, innovative, and competitive product. Students then present the commercialisation plan to a group of knowledgeable judges. I2P’s mission is to create a competitive European forum in which to enhance cross-disciplinary studies in entrepreneurship, research, technology & emerging markets.
The competition goes through several phases: after the end of team registration, students will have two weeks to develop and refine their product. During this time they will also have the opportunity to attend seminars and workshops on various subjects to aid their product development. Each team will also have an experienced mentor to guide them through the creation stages. The teams will then register their product ideas and have four more weeks of instruction and product development. This effort culminates in a presentation of results to a panel of judges. The winning team will fly to Austin, Texas to participate in the global competition and the first three places will win other great prizes.
This year the “I2P – Unternimm Dich!” is organized for the first time in cooperation with the world-renowned I2P competition at the University of Texas in Austin. It is led by the Entrepreneurial Department at RWTH University and the Aachener Entrepreneurship Team (AC.E), a group of RWTH University students interested in fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in Aachen.
We wish all participants the best of luck.
The application deadline is May, 27th 2008.
