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The I2P Global Competition |
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The I2P® Global Competition is an early-stage technology commercialization plan competition hosted by the Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise at The University of Texas at Austin. At I2P® Global, invited universities from Asia, Europe, North and Latin America compete for $25,000 in prizes and a chance to enter the Global MOOTCORP® competition. Participants benefit from valuable feedback from the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, engineers, and intellectual property attorneys on the judging panels. Competition entries should be unique and innovative, be feasible to implement, and address an identified market need, and they must have an underlying technology component.
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The Idea to Product (I2P) Program |
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What is I2P®?
The phrase “Idea to Product” refers to applying creative thought to a technology (“Idea”) and developing a market application (“Product”) for that technology; thus creating a match between a technology and a societal (or market) need.... (more)
Goals and Objectives
The I2P® Program is fundamentally about education. I2P® promotes a culture of technology innovation and entrepreneurship through coursework, competitions, and seminars addressing innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship for a multidisciplinary audience. The program provides a range of pathways for innovation including exposing university technologies to outside investors, aiding university technology spin-offs, and engaging students in the innovation and commercialization process. This last pathway is crucial, given that graduating students are the principal means of knowledge transfer from the university. Through the program students learn to address issues from business, intellectual property, marketing, distribution, R&D, and manufacturing; all of which are necessary for successful technology commercialization. The I2P® Competitions give students hands-on innovation experience, along with mentoring and feedback from experienced entrepreneurs on the UT-Austin faculty and from industry
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The Chair of Free Enterprise |
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The Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise was established with a mission to create and nurture a culture of technology innovation, creativity, leadership and enterprise at UT-Austin and the global community that we serve. Dr. Steven Nichols has been the Director of the Chair since 2001. The Chair’s efforts to promote technology entrepreneurship have been recognized nationally, most recently by Dr. Nichols’s receipt of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Olympus Award for innovation education. The centerpiece of these efforts is the Idea to Product® (I2P®) Program. |
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