Student Business Plan Competition - 2010
There are three categories in the competition:
- Technology
The commercial application of scientific knowledge or radical innovation.
Sponsored by TEC Edmonton - Venture Prize. - Family Enterprise
Multi-generational and/or sibling enterprises using existing family resources to start a new business or significantly expand the enterprise's core business into new products, new markets, spin-off companies, etc.
Sponsored by Alberta Business Family Institute. - Open-Innovation
Creative mobilization of resources (e.g. opportunity, products, markets, team, financial) with high potential to be a successful new venture.
Sponsored by TBC.
With this invitation students have the opportunity to:
- Focus their business desires into a formal action plan.
- Obtain valuable feedback from local business leaders and experts.
- Receive one of the top six invitations per category to present to a panel of judges.
- Earn $6,000 for 1st place or one of two runner-up prizes of $2,000 per category.
- Network with business leaders, venture capitalists, investors and government representatives.
- Interact with high achieving student entrepreneurs.
- Registration also ensures you can attend the VenturePrize Business Planning Seminars held at Stollery Executive Development Centre (map), 5th Floor, Business Building, U of A Campus. For seminars we recommend parking in U lot accessed off 111 St. at 91 Avenue. Parking cost for evening is $3.75. From parking lot enter Hub Mall and walk to the north end. Take sky walk to Business/Tory atrium. Walk through second floor of atrium and enter business building (south side of Atrium). Take elevator to 5th floor.
To ensure participation students are invited to register noting the following timeline:
October 9, 2009 (5:00 pm)
December 1, 2009 (5:00 pm)
December 7, 2009 (3:30 pm)
January 11, 2010
January 23, 2010
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Registration Deadline with Free Seminars
Final Registration Deadline
Business Plan Submission Deadline
Top 6 Selected and Informed
Presentations and Awards
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Submission Requirements:
(Please include full contact information for all team members)
3 hardcopies of the plan and 1 digital copy on CD.
Delivered by 4:00 pm on Monday, December 7, 2009 to:
Centre for Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise
4-20B Business Building (4th floor, east of elevators, southernmost corridor)
Alberta School of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2R6
780-492-5876
We welcome queries to Darryl Lesiuk, Executive Director CEFE - SBPC at dlesiuk@ualberta.ca or 780-441-1573.