Current Challenges
The Center for Advancing Innovation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and MedImmune have partnered to launch the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC). The FCSC will feature risk mitigated, and commercially viable inventions from leading hospitals, universities, tech transfer groups, and professional research organizations. The FCSC is inviting submissions of inventions from inventors and cancer innovators. The goal of the challenge is to accelerate and increase the volume of commercialized cancer inventions by launching new startups.
The Center for Advancing Innovation presents the FEMPOWER Startup Challenge. Fempower will feature risk mitigated, and commercially viable inventions from leading hospitals, universities, tech transfer groups, and professional research organizations.
The Center for Advancing Innovation and the city of Virginia Beach have partnered to launch the Innovate Virginia Beach (IVB) Startup Challenge. Innovate Virginia Beach will feature risk mitigated, and commercially viable inventions from leading hospitals, universities, tech transfer groups, and professional research organizations. Innovate Virginia Beach is inviting submissions of inventions within the fields of cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, mental health, and regenerative medicine. The goal of the challenge is to positively affect veteran health and quality of life by accelerating and increasing the volume of commercialized inventions targeting veteran-related illnesses.
Prior Challenges
The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) has partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Medical Center of the Americas Foundation (MCA) in an unprecedented initiative to encourage entrepreneurs to form startups using space technology - the SPACE RACE. The SPACE RACE challenge initiative will create new entrepreneurial platforms and spur “net new” economic growth in the Paso del Norte region and around the globe. The SPACE RACE Challenge (http://www.space-race.org/) leverages the benefits of the Startup NASA initiative, which is a licensing arrangement that eliminates fees for the first three years of commercial use of NASA’s patented technologies. Startup NASA helps address two of the biggest challenges faced by startup companies: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights.
www.nscsquared.org
Building on the award-winning challenge model from the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge which spun out 11 new startups and the Neuro Startup Challenge which just spun out 16 new startups, the Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer has launched! Entries are being accepted starting October 12, 2015 and will be accepted until February 11, 2016.
www.neurostartupchallenge.org
Off of the success of the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge, The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Heritage Provider Network (HPN) launched the Neuro Startup Challenge. This challenge, modeled similar to the previous year's challenge, will feature 16 NIH inventions with a therapeutic focus in brain-related diseases.
www.breastcancerstartupchallenge.com
The Avon Foundation (AF), The National Cancer Institute(NCI) and The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) are partnering to accelerate and increase the volume of technology transfer and commercialization of Federal agency and AF grantee inventions
Using selected NCI inventions from the HHS patent portfolio and an AF grantee invention, we are organizing a "first of a kind" national, university student-based start-up competition (that may also involve faculty, alumni, regional entrepreneurs and other professionals). This Challenge provides an opportunity for students to develop a business plan for an innovative technology and launch a start-up.
Using selected NCI inventions from the HHS patent portfolio and an AF grantee invention, we are organizing a "first of a kind" national, university student-based start-up competition (that may also involve faculty, alumni, regional entrepreneurs and other professionals). This Challenge provides an opportunity for students to develop a business plan for an innovative technology and launch a start-up.
