8th Annual Five Ventures® Business Plan Competition&Conference
Charlotte region's most dynamic early-stage business development competition kicks off January 22, 2009 and will conclude at the Five Ventures® Conference on April 9, 2009. Over $100,000 in cash and donated services are up for grabs during the competition! Produced by the Charlotte Research Institute at the UNC Charlotte, Five Ventures® is a FREE competition offering training, seminars, matchmaking, one-on-one coaching and cash to entrepreneurs interested in starting a high-growth business.
North Carolina Combination Products Meeting
Conference is state’s first to address merging of drugs, devices, biologics. Combination Products include everything from coated stents, pre-filled syringes, inhalers with drugs, medicated patches, nanoparticles and viruses as drug delivery vehicles to tumors, miniaturized implants, computerized devices, and organs and other tissue grown on biodegradable and implantable scaffolds. It is a coming-together of engineering, medical devices, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sciences. This important new business sector will be the focus of a statewide meeting on Thursday, April 9, at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s headquarters in Research Triangle Park from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wake Forest University’s Babcock School Presents Annual Elevator Competition
Winston-Salem, N.C - Two minutes on an elevator is all they’ll get, but members of 29 teams from 23 top universities, including Wake Forest University, will use that slice of time to deftly talk up their business ideas, as they compete in the Babcock Graduate School of Management’s10th Annual Elevator Competition on Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, in Winston-Salem.
Creative Enterprises plan to be presented
A study on how best to support and use the Triad’s creative community for economic development will be presented Thursday in Greensboro. The study was funded by the Piedmont Triad Partnership through its federal Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development or “Wired” grant.
Creativity: Worlds in the Making - March 18-20, 2009
Creativity: Worlds in the Making, is part symposium, part festival of the imagination, organized by the Program for Creativity and Innovation and the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts at Wake Forest University, March 18-20, 2009. The Early Registration Deadline is February 1, 2009: www.wfu.edu/creativity/symposium_registration.htm.This dynamic event will engage a range of cutting edge perspectives from visionaries on the creativity imperative in today's challenging global environment. Scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, students, community leaders and creative citizens will highlight emerging creative research, public outcomes and practice across disciplines and in collaboration between academe and the broader communities that they serve.
SEMDA Conference Medical Device Conference - Feb. 10, 2009 Atlanta
SEMDA's annual conferences have become known as the premier regional gathering for the medical device industry. The first conference drew more than 240 attendees, and 2008 registration hit 350, with participants including investors, researchers, established and emerging medical device companies and industry professionals.
Venture 2009 - April 22-23 Pinehurst NC
Over the past 25 years, CED’s Venture conference has created business opportunities for hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors across North Carolina and the Southeast. As the nation’s longest running financing event, CED’s Venture 2009 showcases the region’s most promising companies to an audience of top tier investors and entrepreneurial leaders.
Biotech 2009 - February 16-17, 2009
CED's 18th annual Biotech Conference unites the Southeast's life science community to celebrate one of the biotech industry's most dynamic regions. This two-day conference includes world-class speakers, a variety of panels on industry topics and trends, and networking opportunities with life science leaders. Join industry executives, including the region's most innovative biotech entrepreneurs, major pharmaceutical companies, research leaders, policy makers and nationally prominent investors at the Southeast’s premier life science event- CED’s Biotech 2009.
Friday, February 6, 2009
On February 6, 2009, the Wake Forest School of Law Intellectual Property Law Journal will host a symposium on regenerative medicine. The symposium will feature Dr. Anthony Atala, the head of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Atala represents the pinnacle of this field. His lab was the first to successfully use regenerative medicine technology to develop and implant a human organ - a bladder. The symposium will also feature experts covering a variety of areas relating to regenerative medicine, including the ethical debate, patentability issues and their implications, and the commercialization of the research.
November 19, 2008
GREENSBORO – Amanda Elam, visiting scholar of entrepreneurship at Babson College, will speak about women and entrepreneurship at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Room 160 of the Bryan Building.
Her address, free and open to the public, is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week at UNCG, which also included a speech by Bill Stevenson, Lenovo’s manager of corporate social investments.
Elam, who earned her Ph.D. in sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006, studies gender and entrepreneurship across different countries and cultures. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed gender and entrepreneurship in 28 countries. She recently spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology.
Her interest in entrepreneurship and management emerged during her first job after college at an international logistics software start-up in North Carolina. In the course of her five-year tenure in human resources, marketing and sales, the company expanded from 38 to more than 200 employees and its annual revenue grew from nothing to millions of dollars.
Sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the United States, Global Entrepreneurship Week is an initiative to inspire millions of young people in dozens of countries to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. Its activities are designed to help the next generation of entrepreneurs begin to acquire the knowledge, skills, networks and values needed to grow innovative, sustainable enterprises. For more information, visit www.unleashingideas.org.
At UNCG, the week is sponsored by BELL, or Building Entrepreneurial Learning for Life. Created in 2007, BELL promotes the application of entrepreneurial principles across campus.
November 12, 2008
Since joining the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2007, Jordan Kerner, an accomplished and award-winning television and film producer, has been working to transform the film industry in North Carolina and the UNCSA's School of Filmmaking. Although Mr. Kerner's name may not be initially familiar, the films he produced are household names including Fried Green Tomatoes, The Mighty Ducks, Inspector Gadget, and Charlotte's Web. Come learn about the film industry, how it is changing, its potential impact on Winston-Salem and North Carolina and the plan to accelerate the UNCSA School of Filmmaking's ascent to the top tier of film schools. Learn more.
March 18-20, 2009 -Submission Deadline October 15, 2008!
Overview: This interactive symposium is designed to position creative engagement as a core literacy in today’s global environment and to model fresh, critical perspectives for creative research, collaboration and outcomes, between and among diverse disciplines and communities. The objective of the symposium is to stimulate new thinking about what creativity is, how it is practiced across cultural domains and what its potential applications can be, especially in relation to humane and sustainable outcomes and impact. Diverse perspectives from dynamic scholars and practitioners in the arts, humanities, sciences and entrepreneurship will pose questions and challenges about the role that creativity plays in higher education and in society through its capacity to shape dynamic and interdependent future ‘worlds’. The interactive format of "Creativity: Worlds in the Making" combines keynote speakers, traditional panel presentations, innovative performance and exhibitions with participatory working sessions. Learn more
October 30 & Novemeber 20, 2008
Learn About: The $2.2 BILLION available for high-risk R&D by small firms through the SBIR/STTR Programs. North Carolina's $3.5 Million SBIR/STTR Incentive and Matching Fund. SBIR services that SBTDC provides. Proposal preparation tips (select seminars).
Schedule:
October 30th | Webinar
November 20th | Webinar
November 6, 2008
There are numerous entrepreneurship education programs and activities at universities and colleges throughout North Carolina. Communication between the various programs/activities is ad hoc and sporadic. Many operate in isolation while addressing issues common to all. Awareness, communication and collaboration on a broad scale will create greater efficiencies, synergy and increased qualitative output.
This one day summit will be a gathering of the leaders of North Carolina university/college initiatives in the area of entrepreneurship. Leaders will include faculty, staff and students.
The objective of the summit is to share best practices, exchange ideas, form collaborations and to develop better integrated strategies.
Multiple Dates
The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) fosters the creation and growth of high-impact companies in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Education, capital formation, mentoring, and communications are the focus of the programs and services offered by CED. Learn more