Oregon University Resources
Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon State University
Portland State University
University of Oregon
University of Portland
Willamette University
Venture and Angel Research, Prof. Robert Wiltbank
University Resources Outside of Oregon
Standford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Oregon Health & Science University
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OGI MST offers a
number of courses of interest entrepreneurs,
including the
Capstone program which is focused on planning, researching, preparingand
presenting a business plan in teams of 3 to 5 members. For links to a large
number of very useful resources for entrepreneurs, see the MST Spring 2005
Capstone Project Resourcespage.
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New businesses founded on
discoveries made at Oregon Health & Science
University are getting a boost from a new suite of accounting, business
development and legal services provided by the Springboard Project, which
gives selected OHSU startups access to experts in business plan
development and review, local venture capitalists, and mentoring from local
entrepreneurs. OHSU startups are chosen to participate in the Springboard
Project through a competitive review process.
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The mission of the TRC is
to support the university's research community by
facilitating and managing research collaborations and business partnerships
and to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship which enables
transfer of research from the laboratory to the market for public benefit.
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Bioscience Innovation Fund
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The OHSU Bioscience
Innovation Fund helps bridge the gap between
discovery and initial commercial seed funding for promising early stage
OHSU technologies. Through this fund, the University invests a limited
amount of money in order to achieve a specific set of milestones needed to
help achieve an initial commercial investment. This commercial investment
may come from a licensee, angel investor, or early stage venture capital fund.
The Fund is provided by the OHSU Foundation and the application process is
managed through the Technology and Research Collaborations office.
Oregon State University
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Oregon State University's
Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) facilitates the
transfer of technologies developed at OSU to companies for the
commercialization of inventions. The OTT's ultimate goal for the outstanding
research, which occurs at OSU, is the commercialization of inventions for the
public's greater use and benefit. The OTT also provides economic
development to Oregon based companies and Oregon constituents. The OTT
assists faculty and departments on the education on patents, intellectual
property, manages OSU's patent portfolio, and assists in identifying,
protecting, developing and the licensing of the OSU inventions.
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Weatherford Hall reopened
this fall after a $20 million renovation,
transforming the 76-year-old building into a specially designed home for
nearly 300 students in OSU's Austin Entrepreneurship Program. What makes
Weatherford unique is its complete focus on entrepreneurship - from the
students, to live-in faculty, to in-hall lectures by visiting industry leaders, to the
special "incubator" rooms where students can design and develop their own
businesses.
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The Open Source Lab at
Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the
adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community
that develops and uses it. The OSL's talented team of students and full-time
staff do this by focusing on software development as well as hosting the
world's largest open source projects
Portland State University
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The Portland State Business Accelerator is an
economic development
initiative of Portland State University located at 2828 SW Corbett Avenue. It
supports start-up technology businesses by providing affordable office space,
delivering a variety of support services, and linking participating businesses
to selected research and development capabilities of university faculty and
students. These supports combine to help start-ups accelerate their
business and product development cycles.
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ETM offers classes in
entrepreneurship. It also sponsors PICMET each year,
the "Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and
Technology". PICMET '05, was the largest conference on technology
management in the world, and focused on "Technology Management: A
Unifying Discipline for Melting the Boundaries."
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Oregon’s Lab2Market (L2M)
initiative is a collaborative partnership across the
state of Oregon to promote innovation for a better future. It is a three-year,
$600,000 project, funded by the NSF’S Partnerships for Innovation Program
and headed by four faculty members at Portland State University: Dean Marvin
Kaiser, Professor Melissa Appleyard, Professor Steve Benight, and Professor
Erik Bodegom.
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The MBA+ program blends
technical mastery of accounting, finance,
management and marketing with leadership development course-work,
culminating in a thesis project involving a real world experience that demands
these combined skills. Teams of 2-5 students each invest 200+ hours per
student in the project. If you have a business project that could benefit from
400 to 1,000 hours of analysis by talented graduate students, click here for
more information..
University of Oregon
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The Lundquist Center for
Entrepreneurship (LCE) at the University of Oregon
was founded in 1989 with a $1 million endowment from Charles H.
Lundquist. It provides students with learning and experiential opportunities
that enable them to succeed in the marketplace as responsible, effective
business leaders. With this internal mission in mind, the LCE is committed,
in both concept and action, to adding value by creating, sharing, and
promoting business knowledge through cooperation and collaboration
among students, faculty, and the greater business community. To this end,
the LCE has continued to build upon its traditional base of activity, recently
initiating efforts that lead to greater cooperation and support for
entrepreneurial activities and leverage individual knowledge and resources
for the good of students, faculty, and regional businesses.
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Over its fourteen-year
history, the New Venture Championship® (NVC) has
become one of the preeminent business plan competitions in the United
States. Presented by the University of Oregon's Lundquist Center for
Entrepreneurship (LCE), the NVC offers $65,000 in cash prizes and attracts
collegiate teams from across the nation and around the world.
University of Portland
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The University of Portland
Center for Entrepreneurship is an award-winning,
interdisciplinary organization that helps students develop entrepreneurial
skills by fostering relationships between the University and the business
community. Students engage in classroom activity; mentor with business
owners, corporate executives and entrepreneurs; and travel domestically and
abroad to gain a global perspective and ignite ideas for creative ventures.
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Entrepreneur Scholars
(E-Scholars) are a select group of University of
Portland students who either create new business ventures of their own or
develop and implement strategies to improve existing enterprises. The
program provides classroom activity and applied experience, including travel
abroad, to expose students to new and different ways of doing business.
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Entrepreneur Scholars
(E-Scholars) are a select group of University of
Portland students who either create new business ventures of their own or
develop and implement strategies to improve existing enterprises. The
program provides classroom activity and applied experience, including travel
abroad, to expose students to new and different ways of doing business.
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The Bauccio Lecture in
Entrepreneurship was established with a $250,000
Defining Moment Campaign gift from Fedele Bauccio '64,'66 and his wife,
Linda. The gift enables the University to stage a series of lectures with visiting
entrepreneurs.
Willamette University
Venture and Angel Research, Prof. Robert Wiltbank
University Resources Outside of Oregon
Standford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies