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Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition to be Held on March 25, 2011

Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are teaming up with state officials to offer Indiana's first business plan competition targeting startup ventures and emerging companies in nanotechnology.

The Nanotechnology New Ventures Competition, scheduled for March 25, 2011, will offer prizes totaling $57,000 to the top researchers or entrepreneurs developing novel technologies or services based in nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology involves making devices on the atomic and molecular level with applications in computer, medical, military and even textile industries. Annual sales of products and services using nanotechnology are estimated to hit $1 trillion worldwide by 2015, and Indiana's political and educational leaders think the state can gain a significant share of that economic growth.

"This competition is designed to foster research in the nanotechnology arena moving from the laboratory as intellectual property into the marketplace," said event co-organizer Richard Cosier, the Avrum and Joyce Gray Director Designate of Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and the Leeds Professor of Management.

"In doing so, this competition joins the spirit of discovery with delivery by stimulating entrepreneurship opportunities and growing a nano-related industry for Indiana. If you are a researcher who has developed a novel technology or service based in nanotechnology, this competition is for you."

In addition to providing a showcase for some of Purdue and Notre Dame's most promising research in nanotechnology, the competition will highlight interdisciplinary collaboration needed to find the most impactful market applications and build commercialization plans for those technologies.

"This inaugural competition provides a valuable opportunity for entrepreneurs working in a cutting-edge technology field to draw on the deep expertise of business experts in developing a viable business plan," said Carolyn Y. Woo, the Martin J. Gillen Dean of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

"The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Notre Dame is pleased to partner with Purdue to provide participants with access to this expertise and to a network of investors interested in nanotechnology ventures."

Joining Purdue and Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business as competition organizers are the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and the state of Indiana's Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery, an initiative known as MIND that was launched in March 2008.

The alliance involves Purdue, Notre Dame, the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative of the Semiconductor Research Corp., the state of Indiana, the City of South Bend, Argonne National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Other university partners are the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan.

Those involved with the competition hope that it spurs other parallel efforts across the Midwest to capitalize on the research being done at the renowned institutions in the region, with an eye toward broader economic development efforts.

"One of the most exciting aspects of this competition is not just the interdisciplinary collaboration inherent in the projects themselves, but the fact that multiple institutions in Indiana are working together, said Laura Hollis, director of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Mendoza College.

"For the Midwest to regain and keep competitive advantage in the development of new companies, our institutions of higher education and our state governments need to go beyond state geographical boundaries, and think regionally about the resources we have available to high-tech entrepreneurs."

Contestants must be affiliated with the state of Indiana through a public or private university/college, or another state-supported agency/organization. The competition for the selected finalists will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121, in Discovery Park.

The five finalists who are selected to present before the panel of expert judges in March will compete for the top prize of $30,000, $15,000 for second place, $10,000 for third place, and $1,000 each for the fourth- and fifth-place finishers.

Source: http://www.purdue.edu/

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