Resources
NCIIA Student Entrepreneurship Publications
The online versions of the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) student entrepreneurship guides are available for free. Print versions of the guides are also available for sale (reduced rate for NCIIA members) - contact NCIIA to learn more.
Getting Started as an Entrepreneur - a guide for students
The Entreclub Handbook: An Operating Manual for Student Entrepreneurship Clubs
Intellectual Property (IP) Policy Primer
Insights into Innovation and Investment video series
Video interviews with entrepreneurs, investors and others involved in university technology transfer and science startups. Funded by a grant to the NCIIA from the National Science Foundation Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program (CHE #0920877), these videos are relevant to faculty and student innovators in science and engineering looking for insights on how to bring innovations into market. They are particularly directed at innovators in chemistry. Topics include:
- Investors describe the VC / angel community
- Student perspectives on entrepreneurship
- Sources of funding for tech startups
- Women scientist and investor perspective
- Importance of advisors
- Investors' perspective
- Corporate perspective
- Tech transfer
- Understanding customers' needs
- Importance of the team
Organizations
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) - a non-profit organization that supports technology innovation and entrepreneurship in universities and colleges in order to create experiential learning opportunities for students, and successful, socially beneficial businesses.
National Network for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (N2TEC) Institute - a non-profit organization that arose from a National Science Foundation—Partners for Innovation Project with the purpose of raising the level of innovation diffusion and wealth creation in rural America and to be an authority on effective commercialization practices.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - the largest American foundation to focus on entrepreneurship, making grants to advance entrepreneurship and to improve the education of children and youth.
NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a new opportunity to assess the readiness of emerging technology concepts for transitioning into valuable new products through a public-private partnership. The NSF I-Corps program will bring together the technological, entrepreneurial, and business know-how to bring discoveries ripe for innovation out of the university lab.