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This project will take advantage of local and national opportunities such as Startup Weekend and the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Network to aid conversion of Garage Physics projects into viable spin-off companies. Add your name here to participate: * Duncan Carlsmith |
This project is a resource letter to enable students to take advantage of campus, local, and national opportunities for entrepreneurship. === Invocation === "Entendre" means to undertake. An entrepreneurial spirit seeks opportunity in all things. It is an attitude that can serve you well. Would you like to start your future now, or just maybe think about it later and coast? Make something now or wait until say graduate school or some postgraduate employment. You have the tools and resources you need to explore the notion of developing your OWN ideas and even starting and running your own company while at UW-Madison. Physicists and hardware makers have a special role to play. Let's get started. Things your adviser never told you: Entrepreneurship’s role in physics education http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i8/p42_s1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.2083 Being a tech geek is cool, I should know, I am one. http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/15/being-a-geek-is-cool-i-am-one Millennials to the Rescue! Young entrepreneurs could save Madison's economy http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=40722 The Millennial Generation Research Review http://emerging.uschamber.com/MillennialsReport Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm The Future of the University and Public Research for the Entrepreneurial Age,by Carl J. Schramm President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=5758 Ideafests 2013 – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competitions at UW-Madison https://www.facebook.com/pages/G-Steven-Burrill-Business-Plan-Competition/144000448900?ref=hl Example startup http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radiantfabrication/lionhead-3d-printer-and-3d-scanner-with-li-modelin, http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/lionhead Students sought to organize national ag prize competition http://theweekly.wisc.edu/newsletter/achievements-the-weekly/new-post-for-badgers-in-the-world-the-weekly-15/?utm_source=September+2013+newsletter&utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email Elon Musk (PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors) physics major, http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201310/profiles.cfm, http://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/musk.cfm === Caveat === Innovation: Bridging the market gap http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/news/innovation-bridging-the-market-gap-1.13778?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130926#/b4 Proof of concept (actual proof) http://www.kauffman.org/advancing-innovation/proof-of-concept-centers.aspx How to teach entrepreneurship - Community, Broad Appeal, Networking, Real World Curriculum) http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/10/16/How-to-Teach-Entrepreneurship.aspx?Page=1 News http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/#! === Example ideas === Startuply http://www.startuply.com/Startups/ Finalists at NCSU competitions: http://ei.ncsu.edu/egames/2013-finalist-semifinalist-teams/ Dragon innovation http://www.dragoninnovation.com/ Education Investor portfolios: Learn Capitol http://www.learncapital.com/portfolio/, New Schools Venture Fund http://www.newschools.org/ventures , Kapor Capital http://www.kaporcapital.com/view/portfolio/, New Markets Venture Partners http://www.newmarketsvp.com/portfolio/, Rethink Education http://rteducation.com/portfolio/ === Getting started === Millennials Have Their Own Definition of Entrepreneurship http://www.businessinsider.com/gen-ys-impact-on-the-future-of-work-2013-5 Microentrepreneurs May Be an Untapped Market for Product Design http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812121459.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 Entrepreneurial spirit and sterotypes (Read past the title to the end. You need not be a misfit.) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130806091558.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29 http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/27/garage-inventors/ Elevator pitch builder http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/ Entrepreneurs toolkit http://witoolkit.com/ Entrepreneur.com http://www.entrepreneur.com/ Entrepreneur.org http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Resource-Center/Topics/The-Entrepreneur.aspx Getting started http://marriottschool.byu.edu/sitemap/?id=10994 Startup Smart http://www.startupsmart.com.au/home-based-business/running-a-business-from-home/two-australian-university-business-accelerators-named-in-top-global-list/2013071910263.html Get involved in your local ecosystem http://southernalpha.com/the-feed/get-involved-in-your-citys-entrepreneur-ecosystem/ Dream Big America - Every Tuesday, three entrepreneurs will present their business ideas on the first-ever live radio show startup competition, and America votes for the winner. Listen and vote http://dreambigamerica.us/, http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/kauffman-foundation-partners-with-weekly-dream-big-america-live-radio-entrepreneur-competition.aspx === Online courses === Kauffman foundation http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/entrepreneurship MIT OpenCourses beginning with Inventions and Patents http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/entrepreneurship/#listing http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-901-inventions-and-patents-fall-2005/index.htm Who Owns The Icehouse http://whoownstheicehouse.com/video/ Yale Entrepreneurial Institute talks summaries http://yei.yale.edu/yei-resources NOVOED https://novoed.com/ Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate http://create.stanford.edu/certificate.php, http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/09/30/stanford-launches-online-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-course.aspx?=CTCLV EPICENTER Online courses http://epicenter.stanford.edu/resource/epicenter-online-courses === UW Classes and programs === The WARF UpStart Program for Minority and Women’s Entrepreneurship is designed to equip entrepreneurially minded women and minorities in the Madison area with the tools needed to launch or expand any business venture. http://www.warf.org/home/news-media/campus-programs/upstart/upstart.cmsx New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors {{attachment:MHR_322_Flyer.jpg|MHR_322_Flyer.jpg|width="200"}} Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/class-spring-2013/ Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community seminar http://www2.housing.wisc.edu/classes/docs/Fall2013/ERLC.pdf Starting a Software Company, UW-Madison gets serious about supporting student software developers http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=38723 Representative Small Business Development Center class http://sbdc.wisc.edu/startup/etp/default.asp Bolz Center and the Arts http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/bolz-center-for-arts-administration/research-special-projects === Business plan goals list === Arts Feasibility Study Challenge http://ei.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Arts-Venture-Feasibility-Study-Template_Final.pdf Sample business plans http://www.bplans.com/ === Patents and IP === US Patent Office http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp Free patents online http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ General information from WARF http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/for-uw-inventors.cmsx Lab notebook advise http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/lab-book-guidelines/lab-book-guidelines.cmsx Industrial partnerships research agreement guide http://www.grad.wisc.edu/oip/RschAgreeGuide.html === Marketing === Beginners guide http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090901/guidebook-how-to-conduct-market-research.html More resources http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library/marketing-market-research === UW startups === Care to meet companies spun-off from University of Wisconsin? http://ww.bus.wisc.edu/insite/insite-census/ University Research Park tenants http://www.universityresearchpark.org/tenants/tenant_profiles/ WARF technologies http://www.warf.org/technologies.jsp WARF Accelerator program pipeline http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/accelerator-program/in-the-pipeline/in-the-pipeline.cmsx === UW student organizations === http://uwmadsbi.com/ UW Madison Student Business Incubator http://www.uwceo.com/welcome-to-uw-madison-ceo/ UW Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) https://win.wisc.edu/organization/transcend/about UW Madison Transcend Engineering http://www.housing.wisc.edu/erlc - Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, a vibrant community of students that pursue all imaginable majors. http://www.badgerinnovations.com/ Professional websites, student rates. === National student organizations === University Innovation http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Main_Page University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org === Campus opportunities and resources === https://sites.google.com/site/100hourchallenge2013/ - ERLC 100 hour challenge http://http://innovation.wisc.edu/ - UW Innovation Days. Turn your idea in a cash prize winning proposal through Campus Innovation Days, the Qualcom Wireless innovation Prize, G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition, or Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge http://www.engr.wisc.edu/entrepreneurship.html - UW Engineering programs in entrepreneurship http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert - UW business school program in entrepreneurship http://bus.wisc.edu/bba/academics/majors/certificate-entrepreneurship - Certificate in Entrepreneurship http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/burrill-business-plan - UW business plan competition http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/wisconsin-entrepreneurial-bootcamp - Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/insite - Initiative for Studies in Entrepreneurship http://www.law.wisc.edu/academics/clinics/le/index.html - Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, legal advice http://wid.wisc.edu/programs/hzx/ - Hybrid Zone X, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery innovation center http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=61&scid=129 - WARF Discovery Challenge http://innovation.wisc.edu/sustainability/ - Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge http://www.ms-biotech.wisc.edu/curriculum.cfm - UW Master of Science in Biotechnology program http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/resources/ - New Arts Enterprise Wisconsin http://sbdc.wisc.edu/default.asp - UW Madison School of Business Small Business Development Center https://contest.cs.wisc.edu/ - UW Madison Computer Sciences NEST Software contest http://www.merlinmentors.org/ The Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network (MERLIN) is a Madison-based corp of volunteers who have masterfully started and managed new ventures. These mentors use their skills, experience and enthusiasm to guide emerging entrepreneurs in early stage ventures to boost the potential of business success. http://innovation.wisc.edu/tong/ Tong Prototype Prize http://energy.wisc.edu/wienergychallenge SAGE Global Stewards Sustainability Prize, Submit a 4-5 page technical report outlining a new technology to advance sustainable and affordable energy. The winning idea receives up to $50,000. UW Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/67280 Discovery to Product D2P http://d2p.wisc.edu/ Discovery to Product or D2P is a major new partnership between UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) focused on entrepreneurship and building on a long legacy of collaboration to move UW–Madison-inspired technology and innovation to market. === Off campus local resources === http://www.gener8tor.com/portfolio/ - a local accelerator with internships http://www.lawrence.edu/academics/IandE/courses/inPursuitofInnovation.shtml - Lawrence U. http://www.caboosecoworking.com/?m=0 - local coworking hub for startups http://100state.com/projects/all-projects/ - local coworking hub, see events http://100state.com/events/ http://www.madcelerator.com/ - local business accelerator http://www.instituteforartsentrepreneurship.com/ - Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship http://www.cvent.com/events/2013-wisconsin-entrepreneurs-conference/event-summary-234f1e5a7d2e451c98a369e3554b4b60.aspx - Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference 2013 in Middleton http://www.artupweekend.org/, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94693526/artup-weekend-0 - Artup Weekend, arts startup weekend, Madison 26 July '13 http://www.amfam.com/dreambank/ Dreambank on Madison's Capitol Square === Farther afield === http://www.uww.edu/wisc/ Wisconsin Innovation Service Center http://www.s.co/region/wisconsin Startup America http://www.startupwisconsin.org/ Startup Wisconsin http://www.wbiastate.org/ Wisconsin Business Incubation Association http://bpc.mhwebstaging.com/ Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition ($100,000) http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Center-Technology-Commercialization-5026904?home=&gid=5026904&trk=anet_ug_hm, Center for Technology Commercialization http://http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com - Wisconsin Technology Council http://inwisconsin.com/entrepreneurs-and-innovators/ - Wisconsin Economic Development Department, Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation http://www.wisconsinangelnetwork.com/ - Wisconsin Angel Network http://www.wisecurity.org/ - Wisconsin Security Research Consortium http://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/policy/BPC/ - Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest http://www.ideas2profits.org/ Ideas to Profits conference http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/introduction - State of Ingenuity, links entrepreneurs to resources in southern WI and northern IL, http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library http://www.1871.com/ - Chicago digital startup center http://www.lightbank.com/ - a Chicago venture capital firm http://www.scientistsolutions.com/default.aspx - Life science forum by scientists for scientists http://i2c.calit2.net/ - Interdigital Innovation Challenge http://www.sikorsky.com/vgn-ext-templating-SIK/ctrndr?vcmid=b474b8df91530410VgnVCM1000004f62529fRCRD&siteName=Sikorsky Sikorsky Innovations Launches a Transformed Entrepreneurial Challenge to Embrace Entrepreneurial Agility, http://www.sikorsky.com/EChallenge http://www.hultprize.org/en/ Hult prize business competition http://cep.mit.edu/ MIT Clean Energy Prize http://www.cleanenergytrust.org/challenge/ Clean Energy Challenge http://www.worldfoodprize.org/ World Food Prize http://www.hbs.edu/newventurecompetition/business-track/Pages/default.aspx Harvard New Venture Competition === National organizations === National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA) The NCIIA's mission is "to support technology innovation and entrepreneurhisp in higher education to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial innovations and businesses." http://nciia.org National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (EPICENTER) http://epicenter.stanford.edu/ Small Business Innovation Research Programs (SBIR/STTR) www.sba.gov/sbir U.S. Department of Energy Inventions and Innovations Program clearinghouse@ee.doe.gov === Around the world === University Business Incubator Index Global Top List 2013 http://ubiindex.com/global-top-list-2013/ http://www.wamda.com/ Global internships http://www.globalexperiences.com/careers/business_internships.php === Social Entrepreneurship === "helping people in the world’s toughest places survive the crises they confront and turn them into opportunities" http://www.mercycorps.org/innovations Egypt http://www.wamda.com/2013/08/women-social-entrepreneurs-upper-egypt-boost-world-bank === Crowd source funding === http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&_method=list&_ArticleListID=-191077136&_sort=v&_st=17&view=c&_origin=related_art&panel=citeRelatedArt&_acct=C000228598&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=400b2cef6cd1a924c2179eeb0cf09513&searchtype=a Alumni finder: http://www.alumnifunder.com/ Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/ === Startup accelerators === Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/startups/ http://ycombinator.com/faq.html Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) competition http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1085:innovation-incubator-program&catid=27:education-overview&Itemid=1114, http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096&Itemid=1134 === Conferences === U. MI. list: http://www.cfe.umich.edu/competitions-conferences Ideas and Entrepreneurship list: http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2911 International: https://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/dubai/iceid/cfp.php European: http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm === Entrepreneurship programs === USNews Top 25: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-entrepreneurship/spp+25 Princeton review: http://www.princetonreview.com/undergraduate-entrepreneur.aspx Entrepreneurs.com review: http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges/undergrad/1.html NYU: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/centers-of-research/berkley-center/index.htm Social entrepreneurship: http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/learn-more/where-to-study.html, http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/the-companies/ Singularity University (NASA) http://singularityu.org/graduate-studies-program/ === Additional resources === U. 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(Prof Molly Jahn and Sector 67's Chris Meyer pitching Agricultural Innovation Prize, 2014)
Entrepreneurship clinic
This project is a resource letter to enable students to take advantage of campus, local, and national opportunities for entrepreneurship.
Invocation
"Entendre" means to undertake. An entrepreneurial spirit seeks opportunity in all things. It is an attitude that can serve you well. Would you like to start your future now, or just maybe think about it later and coast? Make something now or wait until say graduate school or some postgraduate employment. You have the tools and resources you need to explore the notion of developing your OWN ideas and even starting and running your own company while at UW-Madison. Physicists and hardware makers have a special role to play. Let's get started.
Things your adviser never told you: Entrepreneurship’s role in physics education http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i8/p42_s1
Being a tech geek is cool, I should know, I am one. http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/15/being-a-geek-is-cool-i-am-one
Millennials to the Rescue! Young entrepreneurs could save Madison's economy http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=40722
The Millennial Generation Research Review http://emerging.uschamber.com/MillennialsReport
Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm
The Future of the University and Public Research for the Entrepreneurial Age,by Carl J. Schramm President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, http://www.kauffman.org/Details.aspx?id=5758
Ideafests 2013 – Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competitions at UW-Madison https://www.facebook.com/pages/G-Steven-Burrill-Business-Plan-Competition/144000448900?ref=hl
Example startup http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radiantfabrication/lionhead-3d-printer-and-3d-scanner-with-li-modelin, http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/lionhead
Students sought to organize national ag prize competition http://theweekly.wisc.edu/newsletter/achievements-the-weekly/new-post-for-badgers-in-the-world-the-weekly-15/?utm_source=September+2013+newsletter&utm_campaign=Newsletters&utm_medium=email
Elon Musk (PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors) physics major, http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201310/profiles.cfm, http://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/musk.cfm
Caveat
Innovation: Bridging the market gap http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/news/innovation-bridging-the-market-gap-1.13778?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130926#/b4
Proof of concept (actual proof) http://www.kauffman.org/advancing-innovation/proof-of-concept-centers.aspx
How to teach entrepreneurship - Community, Broad Appeal, Networking, Real World Curriculum) http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/10/16/How-to-Teach-Entrepreneurship.aspx?Page=1
News http://www.xconomy.com/wisconsin/#!
Example ideas
Startuply http://www.startuply.com/Startups/
Finalists at NCSU competitions: http://ei.ncsu.edu/egames/2013-finalist-semifinalist-teams/
Dragon innovation http://www.dragoninnovation.com/
Education Investor portfolios: Learn Capitol http://www.learncapital.com/portfolio/, New Schools Venture Fund http://www.newschools.org/ventures , Kapor Capital http://www.kaporcapital.com/view/portfolio/, New Markets Venture Partners http://www.newmarketsvp.com/portfolio/, Rethink Education http://rteducation.com/portfolio/
Getting started
Millennials Have Their Own Definition of Entrepreneurship http://www.businessinsider.com/gen-ys-impact-on-the-future-of-work-2013-5
Microentrepreneurs May Be an Untapped Market for Product Design http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130812121459.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
Entrepreneurial spirit and sterotypes (Read past the title to the end. You need not be a misfit.)
http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/27/garage-inventors/
Elevator pitch builder http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/
Entrepreneurs toolkit http://witoolkit.com/
Entrepreneur.com http://www.entrepreneur.com/
Entrepreneur.org http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Resource-Center/Topics/The-Entrepreneur.aspx
Getting started http://marriottschool.byu.edu/sitemap/?id=10994
Get involved in your local ecosystem http://southernalpha.com/the-feed/get-involved-in-your-citys-entrepreneur-ecosystem/
Dream Big America - Every Tuesday, three entrepreneurs will present their business ideas on the first-ever live radio show startup competition, and America votes for the winner. Listen and vote http://dreambigamerica.us/, http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/kauffman-foundation-partners-with-weekly-dream-big-america-live-radio-entrepreneur-competition.aspx
Online courses
Kauffman foundation http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/entrepreneurship
MIT OpenCourses beginning with Inventions and Patents
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/entrepreneurship/#listing
Who Owns The Icehouse http://whoownstheicehouse.com/video/
Yale Entrepreneurial Institute talks summaries http://yei.yale.edu/yei-resources
NOVOED https://novoed.com/
Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate http://create.stanford.edu/certificate.php, http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/09/30/stanford-launches-online-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-course.aspx?=CTCLV
EPICENTER Online courses http://epicenter.stanford.edu/resource/epicenter-online-courses
UW Classes and programs
The WARF UpStart Program for Minority and Women’s Entrepreneurship is designed to equip entrepreneurially minded women and minorities in the Madison area with the tools needed to launch or expand any business venture. http://www.warf.org/home/news-media/campus-programs/upstart/upstart.cmsx
New class offered in entrepreneurship for non-business majors
Arts Enterprise: Art as Business as Art http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/class-spring-2013/
Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community seminar http://www2.housing.wisc.edu/classes/docs/Fall2013/ERLC.pdf
Starting a Software Company, UW-Madison gets serious about supporting student software developers http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=38723
Representative Small Business Development Center class http://sbdc.wisc.edu/startup/etp/default.asp
Bolz Center and the Arts http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/bolz-center-for-arts-administration/research-special-projects
Business plan goals list
Arts Feasibility Study Challenge http://ei.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Arts-Venture-Feasibility-Study-Template_Final.pdf
Sample business plans http://www.bplans.com/
Patents and IP
US Patent Office http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/patents.jsp
Free patents online http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
General information from WARF http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/for-uw-inventors.cmsx
Lab notebook advise http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/lab-book-guidelines/lab-book-guidelines.cmsx
Industrial partnerships research agreement guide http://www.grad.wisc.edu/oip/RschAgreeGuide.html
Marketing
Beginners guide http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090901/guidebook-how-to-conduct-market-research.html
More resources http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library/marketing-market-research
UW startups
Care to meet companies spun-off from University of Wisconsin? http://ww.bus.wisc.edu/insite/insite-census/
University Research Park tenants http://www.universityresearchpark.org/tenants/tenant_profiles/
WARF technologies http://www.warf.org/technologies.jsp
WARF Accelerator program pipeline http://www.warf.org/home/for-uw-inventors/accelerator-program/in-the-pipeline/in-the-pipeline.cmsx
UW student organizations
http://uwmadsbi.com/ UW Madison Student Business Incubator
http://www.uwceo.com/welcome-to-uw-madison-ceo/ UW Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO)
https://win.wisc.edu/organization/transcend/about UW Madison Transcend Engineering
http://www.housing.wisc.edu/erlc - Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community, a vibrant community of students that pursue all imaginable majors.
http://www.badgerinnovations.com/ Professional websites, student rates.
National student organizations
University Innovation http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Main_Page
University Innovation Fellows website: http://dreamdesigndeliver.org
Campus opportunities and resources
https://sites.google.com/site/100hourchallenge2013/ - ERLC 100 hour challenge
http://http://innovation.wisc.edu/ - UW Innovation Days. Turn your idea in a cash prize winning proposal through Campus Innovation Days, the Qualcom Wireless innovation Prize, G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition, or Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/entrepreneurship.html - UW Engineering programs in entrepreneurship
http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert - UW business school program in entrepreneurship
http://bus.wisc.edu/bba/academics/majors/certificate-entrepreneurship - Certificate in Entrepreneurship
http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/burrill-business-plan - UW business plan competition
http://bus.wisc.edu/degrees-programs/non-business-majors/wisconsin-entrepreneurial-bootcamp - Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp
http://bus.wisc.edu/centers/insite - Initiative for Studies in Entrepreneurship
http://www.law.wisc.edu/academics/clinics/le/index.html - Law & Entrepreneurship Clinic, legal advice
http://wid.wisc.edu/programs/hzx/ - Hybrid Zone X, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery innovation center
http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=61&scid=129 - WARF Discovery Challenge
http://innovation.wisc.edu/sustainability/ - Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge
http://www.ms-biotech.wisc.edu/curriculum.cfm - UW Master of Science in Biotechnology program
http://artsenterprise.wisc.edu/resources/ - New Arts Enterprise Wisconsin
http://sbdc.wisc.edu/default.asp - UW Madison School of Business Small Business Development Center
https://contest.cs.wisc.edu/ - UW Madison Computer Sciences NEST Software contest
http://www.merlinmentors.org/ The Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network (MERLIN) is a Madison-based corp of volunteers who have masterfully started and managed new ventures. These mentors use their skills, experience and enthusiasm to guide emerging entrepreneurs in early stage ventures to boost the potential of business success.
http://innovation.wisc.edu/tong/ Tong Prototype Prize
http://energy.wisc.edu/wienergychallenge SAGE Global Stewards Sustainability Prize, Submit a 4-5 page technical report outlining a new technology to advance sustainable and affordable energy. The winning idea receives up to $50,000.
UW Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/67280
Discovery to Product D2P http://d2p.wisc.edu/ Discovery to Product or D2P is a major new partnership between UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) focused on entrepreneurship and building on a long legacy of collaboration to move UW–Madison-inspired technology and innovation to market.
Off campus local resources
http://www.gener8tor.com/portfolio/ - a local accelerator with internships
http://www.lawrence.edu/academics/IandE/courses/inPursuitofInnovation.shtml - Lawrence U.
http://www.caboosecoworking.com/?m=0 - local coworking hub for startups
http://100state.com/projects/all-projects/ - local coworking hub, see events http://100state.com/events/
http://www.madcelerator.com/ - local business accelerator
http://www.instituteforartsentrepreneurship.com/ - Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship
http://www.cvent.com/events/2013-wisconsin-entrepreneurs-conference/event-summary-234f1e5a7d2e451c98a369e3554b4b60.aspx - Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference 2013 in Middleton
http://www.artupweekend.org/, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94693526/artup-weekend-0 - Artup Weekend, arts startup weekend, Madison 26 July '13
http://www.amfam.com/dreambank/ Dreambank on Madison's Capitol Square
Farther afield
http://www.uww.edu/wisc/ Wisconsin Innovation Service Center
http://www.s.co/region/wisconsin Startup America
http://www.startupwisconsin.org/ Startup Wisconsin
http://www.wbiastate.org/ Wisconsin Business Incubation Association
http://bpc.mhwebstaging.com/ Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition ($100,000)
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Center-Technology-Commercialization-5026904?home=&gid=5026904&trk=anet_ug_hm, Center for Technology Commercialization
http://http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com - Wisconsin Technology Council
http://inwisconsin.com/entrepreneurs-and-innovators/ - Wisconsin Economic Development Department, Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
http://www.wisconsinangelnetwork.com/ - Wisconsin Angel Network
http://www.wisecurity.org/ - Wisconsin Security Research Consortium
http://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/policy/BPC/ - Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest
http://www.ideas2profits.org/ Ideas to Profits conference
http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/introduction - State of Ingenuity, links entrepreneurs to resources in southern WI and northern IL, http://www.soisourcelink.com/for-businesses/resource-library
http://www.1871.com/ - Chicago digital startup center
http://www.lightbank.com/ - a Chicago venture capital firm
http://www.scientistsolutions.com/default.aspx - Life science forum by scientists for scientists
http://i2c.calit2.net/ - Interdigital Innovation Challenge
http://www.sikorsky.com/vgn-ext-templating-SIK/ctrndr?vcmid=b474b8df91530410VgnVCM1000004f62529fRCRD&siteName=Sikorsky Sikorsky Innovations Launches a Transformed Entrepreneurial Challenge to Embrace Entrepreneurial Agility, http://www.sikorsky.com/EChallenge
http://www.hultprize.org/en/ Hult prize business competition
http://cep.mit.edu/ MIT Clean Energy Prize
http://www.cleanenergytrust.org/challenge/ Clean Energy Challenge
http://www.worldfoodprize.org/ World Food Prize
http://www.hbs.edu/newventurecompetition/business-track/Pages/default.aspx Harvard New Venture Competition
National organizations
National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance (NCIIA) The NCIIA's mission is "to support technology innovation and entrepreneurhisp in higher education to create experiential learning opportunities for students and successful, socially beneficial innovations and businesses." http://nciia.org
National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (EPICENTER) http://epicenter.stanford.edu/
Small Business Innovation Research Programs (SBIR/STTR) www.sba.gov/sbir
U.S. Department of Energy Inventions and Innovations Program clearinghouse@ee.doe.gov
Around the world
University Business Incubator Index Global Top List 2013 http://ubiindex.com/global-top-list-2013/
Global internships http://www.globalexperiences.com/careers/business_internships.php
Social Entrepreneurship
"helping people in the world’s toughest places survive the crises they confront and turn them into opportunities" http://www.mercycorps.org/innovations
Egypt http://www.wamda.com/2013/08/women-social-entrepreneurs-upper-egypt-boost-world-bank
Crowd source funding
Alumni finder: http://www.alumnifunder.com/
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/
Startup accelerators
Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/startups/
http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) competition http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1085:innovation-incubator-program&catid=27:education-overview&Itemid=1114, http://siia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096&Itemid=1134
Conferences
U. MI. list: http://www.cfe.umich.edu/competitions-conferences
Ideas and Entrepreneurship list: http://www.worth.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2911
International: https://www.waset.org/conferences/2013/dubai/iceid/cfp.php
European: http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2013/ecie13-call-papers.htm
Entrepreneurship programs
USNews Top 25: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-entrepreneurship/spp+25
Princeton review: http://www.princetonreview.com/undergraduate-entrepreneur.aspx
Entrepreneurs.com review: http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges/undergrad/1.html
Social entrepreneurship: http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/learn-more/where-to-study.html, http://www.pbs.org/new-recruits/the-companies/
Singularity University (NASA) http://singularityu.org/graduate-studies-program/
Additional resources
U. MI list: http://www.cfe.umich.edu/resources