BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
2011 Finalists
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Seventy-eight teams of entrepreneurially-minded graduate students from around the globe entered this year's LES Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition with submissions featuring ground-breaking technologies and services. This year's finalist teams are:
Lund University, Sweden |
ShieldHeart offers a functioning organ protection device platform to protect vital organs from potential complications that have been associated with Negative Pressure Wound Therapy systems, such as rupture and bleeding. |
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Saint Petersburg State University, Russia |
Computer Vision Tech offers a computer application to be integrated with existing hosted video surveillance solutions. It provides real-time intelligent video analysis, notifications/alarms set up and quick search through identified events. |
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University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
leapin.com.au is web-based software for Tourist Accommodation and other uses which enables hotel guests to leap past the check-in desk and go straight from the web to their room. |
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University of Arkansas, USA |
cycleWood Solutions, LLC offers the XyloBag, a patent protected lignin-based biodegradable single-use shopping bag, which will reduce landfill waste and the negative environmental impact of conventional single-use plastic shopping bags. |
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
Imbed Biosciences develops nanotechnology-based advanced functional materials which enable fabrication of multifunctional wound dressings that are 'easy on skin and hard on bacteria.' |
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Washington University-St. Louis, USA |
NanoMed, LLC offers a nanotechnological platform for fabricating advanced biomaterials and synthetic surgical meshes such as the DuraStar™ Dural Substitute, a novel nanofiber mesh utilized to repair the protective membrane surrounding the brain/spinal cord during neurosurgical procedures. |
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These teams will receive all-expenses paid trips to attend the LES International Annual Conference in London, England June 5-8, 2011 (http://www.lesi2011.org/) where they will present their plans to a world-class panel of judges in hopes of taking home:
- The $10,000 grand prize.
- The $5,000 LES International Global Award, which is presented to the team whose plan best deals with intellectual property rights and their use in the global business environment.
- The opportunity to select from a valuable pool of in-kind prizes
The Competition Finals will take place on Saturday, June 4th. Watch for updates about our winners!
Thank you to Our Supporters!
The 2011 Competition is made possible by these organizations:
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