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7th Annual University Startups Conference 2013
The University Startups Conference will take place March 20 to 22, 2013 at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. with an Opening Reception on March 20, 2013. This year's focus is on the important relationship between Corporate Venture Capital and University Startups.
The Conference is organized annually by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2), now in its 7th year.
The Government Co-Hosts are the National Science Foundation (Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnership) and National Institutes of Health (Office of Tech Transfer). The National Venture Captial Association (NVCA) is the venture capital sponsor.
The University Startups Conference is a unique best practices conference series dedicated exclusively to creating and funding globally-competitive, venture-backable university startups. We bring together universities creating startups with VCs, angel investors, SBIR program managers and Fortune 500 technology scouts funding them. The conference also includes NSF, NIH, NIST, DOD, DOE, DHS and other government agencies working on improving the Innovation Economy by increasing the quality and quantity of startups coming out of universities.
Join us on March 20 at Growlers for another BioBuzz Happy Hour
Join us on March 20 at Growlers for another BioBuzz Happy Hour
Join our sponsors, BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Biotechnology Education, along with many others from our local biotech industry at another exciting BioBuzz event on March 20 from 4:30 - 7 p.m. in Gaithersburg. This month, we're having our event a week early to accommodate BioBuzzers with kids in Montgomery County Public School system who will be on spring break the next week. We're also holding the March BioBuzz event at a new location, Growlers in Old Towne Gaithersburg. We're excited to see all of you soon, so please register today!
USDA SBIR Program: From Submission to Award
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program provides critical, early-stage research and development funding in the form of grants for a wide range of innovations that have a strong commercial potential. This webinar will address key content to include in SBIR proposal applications, including the commercialization plan that is a required part of a Phase II application. Also to be discussed is the review process used by USDA and the necessary steps for successful registration and submission through Grants.gov. The webinar will address common issues that present challenges for new SBIR applicants and offer guidance regarding how to plan ahead in order to ensure successful completion of major steps within the application process.
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UM Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship - Cupid's Cup Business Innovation Showcase and Competition
Cupid's Cup Business & Innovation Showcase and Competition is where you'll find the coolest innovations from the UMD campus and our region all under one roof. Pick the brains of entrepreneurs from all kinds of businesses. Take a break from the the dining halls and your usual lunch spots and visit the food trucks. Get to the competition early to score one of our limited-edition t-shirts. And definitely stay to watch our competitors duke it out in front of Under Armour Founder Kevin Plank.
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Sen. Ben Cardin to host Bio-Tech Jobs Roundtable April 8th
The Business of Medical Devices: Bringing a Medical Device to Market
The Johns Hopkins-Coulter Translational Research Partnership is pleased to be sponsoring, in celebration of Wallace Coulter's 100th Birthday, "The Business of Medical Devices." This will be a practical look at how ideas are converted to products and brought to market. All of our panelists will have significant industry experience, with a vast amount of real-world experience. This exciting conference will include panels on:
- Getting Started: Creating the Start-up
- Getting Approved: Regulatory
- Getting to the Product: Manufacturing and Design
- Getting Paid: Reimbursement, Marketing, and Sales
- Financing and Exits
Tech Transfer Speakers Series - Aeras Special Event
Please join us to learn more about the uniqueness of Aeras: the product development partnership model, funding, center of excellence and CMO capabilities. Aeras, a not-for-profit, product development organization focused on developing safe, effective vaccines to prevent TB and ensuring they will be available and affordable for the populations that most need them.
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Navigating the SEC's New Conflict Minerals Disclosure Requirements
The SEC recently approved the much debated conflict minerals due-diligence disclosure rules that were originally developed in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule requires public companies to disclose the use of any conflict minerals that "are necessary to the functionality or production of a product manufactured" or "contracted to be manufactured" by that company. While not banning the use of conflict minerals, it does require companies to assess their supply chains and publically disclose their use of the minerals.
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IEDC's 2013 Federal Economic Development Forum
The stage is set.
The actors: Congress, the White House, the Budget, the Great Recession, and you, the economic development professional.
The story: a challenge to leverage limited federal resources to create jobs and climb out from beneath the Great Recession.
The new economic stage has come in an era of fiscal austerity playing against a great need for a multi-faceted approach to job creation. Policies and programs that support exports, job training, education, attracting investment, access to capital, infrastructure development, and many more, all have a larger role to play and all have to play it with less funding or the threat of less funding. Now as we enter the second term of this administration and a new Congress has been elected, economic developers must get engaged with our leaders in Washington. Whether it is learning more about a federal program supporting increased foreign direct investment or it’s educating a senior administration official on the importance of workforce development programs, economic developers have a starring role to play on the new economic stage.
IEDC's 2013 Federal Economic Development Forum will equip you with the tools, skills, and contacts to make federal resources work for you.
InvestMaryland Challenge Awards Finale
After months of submitting business plans, scoring applications, developing special awards and partnering with us, it's time to celebrate entrepreneurship! Please join us April 15th at Maryland Institute College of Art's Brown Center as we announce the top three $100K winners.
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