Category: Events

Deadline: April 1 for Researchers, Innovators, and Clinicians in the Life Sciences

The BioEntrepreneurship Initiative at Cornell University offers Johnson MBA students and life science researchers from across Cornell’s campuses the opportunity to immerse themselves in real-world startup creation. Participants receive the tools, training, and connections they need to launch their own life science startups through a certificate program offered by the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Applications for the inaugural cohort of the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative are now open. Up to 30 applicants will be selected to start the program in the Spring 2022—half of the selected Fellows will be MBA students and half will be researchers, innovators, and clinicians in the life sciences. The latter half will be doctoral candidates (PhD, MD, DVM), post-docs, or junior faculty from across Cornell’s schools, such as Weill Cornell Medicine, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Engineering, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, as well as Cornell’s Tri-Institutional partners.

Apply now: https://eship.cornell.edu/item/bioentrepreneurship

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline to apply is April 1 for life science researchers. For more information, contact the program team at bioentrepreneurship@cornell.edu. 

Applications Accepted Through Early February 2022

The Commercialization Fellowship, offered by Cornell Engineering, is a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students to spend a fully funded semester and summer in an intensive entrepreneurship program. Fellows will have a personal mentor to guide them through the exploration of commercializing a product. From intellectual property management to supply chains, students will learn the tools, methods, and skills for bringing a product or technology to market.

The program is open to all Cornell Engineering Ph.D. students who are immersed in a particular technology and now want to see it through a business lens. The fellowship experience will enable deep experiential learning in the commercial side of innovation, and one-on-one mentoring assures a deep, personalized educational experience unmatched by traditional entrepreneurship programs.

Applications will be accepted through early February 2022. Apply now.

February 2 (4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST) & February 10 (5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST) – Virtual

Rev: Ithaca Startup Works offers a deep dive into prototyping through its 11-week Prototyping Hardware Accelerator summer program that

leads product teams through a process to determine if their ideas are commercially desirable, technologically viable, and economically

feasible. Upon completion of the program, participants are positioned to recruit team members, bring on partners, initiate work with contract manufacturers, a

nd pitch to investors.

The program offers three tracks: Open, ClimateTech, and AgTech. Each track features content catered for the specific industry or field: 

Open Track: 

Open to innovators in any field since 2014, Rev’s classic track provides foundational training across industries. 

ClimateTech Track

Climate tech startups are placed in a like-minded cohort, matched with clean energy and clean tech mentors, and learn from guest speakers in the field.  

AgTech Track: Agriculture technology startups are immersed in specialized training and connected to experts and potential partners within the agriculture industry.  

Applications for Summer 2022 are currently open and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The program is free and open to anyone in the public to apply. 

Interested in learning more about the program? Rev invites you to an upcoming virtual information session:

 Wednesday, February 2 (4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EST) 

Thursday, February 10 (5:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST) – ClimateTech focused, but all are welcome! 

Rev encourages you to share this information with interested hardware entrepreneurs and your extended networks. Questions about the program can be directed to rev@revithaca.com.  

Tuesday, February 1 (3:00 p.m. EST) – Virtual

As a maker, you know that if you build it, they — your customers — won’t come right away. So, you build it again and again, often with the help of increasingly a

ffordable 3D printers and prototyping tools. But what comes next? Anyone can be an inventor; you need to refine and scale a business to compete.

In this webinar hosted by the Hardware Accelerator team at Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, industry experts and startup founders share their hard-won advice, revealing the obstacles they faced making the leap from product idea to prototype to manufacturing and how specializing helped them succeed. You’ll discover how these entrepreneurs harnessed trends and resources to scale product companies focused on specific industries, like climate and agriculture technology.

Interested in learning more about Rev’s hardware accelerator programs? Visit the Hardware Accelerator website.

Register: https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/overview/K020122/

Your journey to becoming an entrepreneur could take many paths. You could build a family business, take advantage of a successful franchise opportunity, or launch your own startup with high-growth potential. Another side of entrepreneurship is launching a non-profit or business focused on social good. The creative side of you could bring inspiration to a family business, or the business skills you possess may be invaluable to an innovator already focused on a new product/service. Or, if you are the technologist, do you license your technology or identify partners to take your innovation to market?

Join this webinar co-hosted by the Johnson eClub at Cornell and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business to examine the pros and cons of the various types of entrepreneurship. You will get insider insight from successful founders and CEOs managing companies representing a variety of business models.

Registration.

The W.E. Cornell (Women Entrepreneurs Cornell) program helps STEM women commercialize their innovations and overcome the challenges of leading a growing technology-based business. Combining a proven entrepreneurship curriculum with a focus on leadership development and empowerment, participants will finish the program prepared to take the next steps in their entrepreneurship journey.

Timeline (students will be accepted on a rolling basis)
Application due: Thursday, October 7, 11:59pm
Application decisions will be sent out by: Friday, October 8, 5pm

Phase 1 Cohort Events

October 22 – WE Cornell Kickoff
October 29 – Ideation Workshop
November 5 – STEM Founder Series #1
November 19 – Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (optional dinner social)
December 3 – STEM Founder Series #2
December 7 – Entrepreneurial Readiness Workshop

Questions?
Contact the program team by emailing we-cornell@cornell.edu

Join us on Friday, October 1st for a community gathering and roundtable discussion led by Cornell alumnus and founder of BET, Jehron Petty (’20).

Due to current COVID safety guidelines at Cornell , food will no longer be served to attendees. This is subject to change in conjunction with evolving COVID guidelines.

As the CEO of ColorStack, a nonprofit focused on helping Black and Latinx computer science students across the country, Petty has cultivated an expansive online community of BIPOC students.

Enjoy an engaging conversation with like-minded students interested in entrepreneurship and discover what the BET community will offer throughout the fall semester, while learning from the BET founder himself.

Spaces are limited. Reserve your spot for this engaging, inspiring event today.

A Call to Action: New Climate Tech Track

Black student entrepreneurs with innovations in ALL FIELDS are encouraged join BET. Yet, as we review the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and its more precise forecasts for the 21st Century warning of increased severe weather devastation, we strongly encourage diverse leaders to respond to this “call to action” and apply their innovations to help solve our local, national, and global climate challenges. Tied to this, we are excited to announce a climate tech “track” focused on empowering founders in this arena with additional mentorship, coaching, and resources.

Accessibility:

Please contact Monika Crosby (mlc258@cornell.edu) at least three days prior to the event with any accessibility needs.

Attend this virtual workshop on Thursday, October 7 (12:00 p.m. ET) to learn how to build a proper intellectual property (IP) strategy. Participants will receive the knowledge and tools to assess whether their IP needs to be protected, discover the most common types of IP protection, explore different patent filing strategies, and much more.

Hosted by Cornell Engineering, this virtual workshop will be moderated by Zach Zaremba the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at the Cornell Law School. Panelists include: Aleksandar Nikolic, Klausner Cook; and Jack Rudnick, Syracuse Innovation Law Center.

Accessibility:

Closed Captioning will be available. If you need additional assistance, please contact Monika Crosby (mlc258@cornell.edu)