BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
We Have Our Winners!!
Nearly sixty 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.
2013 Grand Prize Winner
(l to r) LES Foundation President Tom Britven with Grand Prize Winner
Empire Robotics' President Bill Culley from Cornell University
Cornell University, USA |
Empire Robotics, Inc. is commercializing a platform robotics technology through its first product, a universal robot gripper. Gripping and manipulating varied objects addresses a fundamental problem in industrial automation.
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Global Award Recipients!
Global Award Recipients Stephen Kayode of University of Arkansas
ParadigMed (right) and Antonio Gentile of Universita del Salento's (Italy)
MRS (left) with LES Foundation Secretary Peter Ross (center)
Universita del Salento, Italy |
MRS provides breakthrough technology to increase the efficiency of PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) processes used in the production of microchips, micro electro-mechanical systems, solar cells and other hi-tech devices.
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University of Arkansas, USA |
ParadigMed, LLC offers the patent-pending Circumex® adult male circumcision device. This is a cost-effective, disposable, non-surgical device that can be used in an outpatient setting.
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Thank you to Our Supporters!
The 2013 Competition is made possible by:
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| 2013 Competition Dinner | |
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