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Big 5 is a 5-week innovation bootcamp addressing globally relevant challenges. 30 students from the University of Colorado Boulder are selected to participate. Big 5 seeks participants with diverse backgrounds, such as engineering, design, business, law and social sciences to form teams that will work over 5 weeks to design entrepreneurial ventures to tackle social and environmental problems.
The CU Boulder I&E Seed Grant program, administered by the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, encourages faculty and staff to undertake projects involving innovative, entrepreneurial outcomes, or a problem-solving mindset. Cross-campus interdisciplinary projects are highly favored.
http://www.colorado.edu/entrepreneurship/innovation-seed-grant
The New Venture Challenge (NVC) connects the campus with the Boulder community to develop and fund entrepreneurial ideas. Through fall and spring semesters, teams form, work with mentors, and refine their ideas before pitching at the championships. The NVC provides a way for CU Boulder students, faculty, staff, and the Boulder community to learn about the process of launching ventures through events, workshops, mentorship, and networking.
CU Boulder is the only university in the world to design and build instruments sent to all eight planets in the solar system, plus the dwarf planet Pluto.
Sports physiologist and CU PhD alumnus Allen Lim started Boulder-based Skratch Labs, with a mission to provide people with the inspiration, life skills, and products to take better care of themselves and their families.
The contributions of National Medal of Science awardee Marvin Caruthers and Nobel Laureate Tom Cech provide a powerful catalyst for science, engineering and medical disciplines to create high-tech solutions to biomedical problems. Their pioneering work has made CU Boulder a destination for DNA and RNA research and an entrepreneurial powerhouse.
