All UNM students, faculty and staff are invited to the kick-off reception for the fifth annual UNM Technology Business Plan Competition on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 3 – 7 p.m. in the Jackson Student Center located west of the Anderson School of Management.
Top prize for the April competition is the $25,000 Michael Gallegos Prize for Entrepreneurship, and interested students only need be enrolled in one UNM course in either the fall or spring semester to be qualified to compete.
Everyone is welcome to learn more at the kick-off reception. Students will have the opportunity to network with potential teammates face-to-face, to sign up for workshop notices, and to meet business community supporters of the competition.
For more information visit: Technology Business Plan.
The UNM Technology Business Plan Competition is designed to encourage UNM students from areas such as Business, Medicine, Biotechnology, Engineering, Law, and other disciplines to collaborate on teams that commercialize technology products developed at Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, and UNM. These student-owned startup firms bring inventions from lab to market and can boost economic development in New Mexico.
The valued business and community supporters of the competition include American Property Management Corporation – APMC and Michael Gallegos; Technology Ventures Corporation – TVC, Lockheed Martin, and Sherman McCorkle; vSpring Capital, the KickStart Seed Fund, and Gavin Christensen; the NM Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development – WIRED - Initiative, and Gregory Scheib; The Technology Innovation Program (TIP) Endowment, and Raymond Radosevich; the Miller Financial Group of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network; Bank of the West; Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck; EPIC Ventures; and Flywheel Ventures.
The 2010 UNM Technology Business Plan Competition will take place on Friday, April 16, 2010. The winners will be announced that evening at the awards reception and banquet.
Media Contact: Leslie Venzuela, (505) 277-7117; e-mail: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu