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Big
XII New Venture Championship
at Big XII Basketball
Tournament, Dallas, March 10-11
| Kansans
to serve on panel of judges for Big XII business
planning competition. Serving as judges: Tracy
Taylor, President/CEO, KTEC,
Suresh Ramamurthi, Entrepreneur
in Residence, KTEC,
and Joel Wiggins President/CEO,
Enterprise
Center of Johnson County. The Kauffman
Foundation is a sponsor of the competition. |
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Sponsored by the Big XII Center
for Economic Development, Innovation, and Commercialization
(CEDIC), the first Big XII New Venture Championship
will be held in Dallas in March in conjunction with
the Big
XII Basketball Tournament. The Competition is to
motivate and celebrate the commercialization of technologies
developed at the Big XII universities and promote entrepreneurship.
CEDIC was founded on the premise that the commercialization
of university technologies by entrepreneurs would play
a major role in future wealth creation in America.
Each of the twelve universities will send a team to
Dallas for the Championship. All members of the competing
teams must be enrolled students at their respective
universities, and at least one of the students on each
team must be a graduate student. The basis for the new
ventures must be technologies developed at their universities,
either by students or faculty. Each team will be accompanied
by a faculty adviser and a representative of the university’s
office of technology commercialization. Gary
M. Cadenhead, Ph.D., immediate past Director
of the world renowned Global
MOOT CORP Competition at The University of Texas
at Austin, has agreed to direct the Big XII New Venture
Championship.
On March 10, the twelve teams will
compete in four divisions of three each. The judges
of the opening round divisions will select a finalist,
and the Final Four will compete before a separate set
of judges on March 11; see the attached Schedule of
Events. The panels of judges will consist of venture
capitalists, entrepreneurs, attorneys and accountants.
Each team of entrepreneurs will be pitching its venture
to convince the judges that it has the team and technology
to develop into a prosperous company.
The winner will receive an invitation
to the Global MOOT
CORP Competition held each May at The University
of Texas at Austin including the opportunity to compete
for a $100,000 investment, as well as excellent tickets
for each team member to the Finals of the Big XII Basketball
Tournament. The winning team will also be introduced
during halftime of the Basketball Finals.
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