Idea to Product Latin America

IDEA TO PRODUCT™ COMPETITION LATIN AMERICA 2009

September 3-5, 2009

Fundação Getulio Vargas - Sao Paolo

NANOITA WINS THE 3M CHAMPIONSHIP AT IDEA TO PRODUCT LATIN AMERICA 2009

3M and Nanoita

Luiz Eduardo Serafim and Marcelo Tambascia, from 3M do Brasil, and Nanoita team members Thiago Sequinel and Segio Mazurek Tebcherani, the winning team for the 3M Championship, final round of the I2P Latin America 2009, and the winning team for the FGVcenn Challenge.

1ST RUNNER UP

Carla Silva and LQBB team

Carla Silva (Microsoft do Brasil) with LQBB team members Adelia and Marcela, 1st Runner Up for the 3M Championship and Winner for the Banco Votorantim Challenge.

2ND RUNNER UP

Carlos Gamboa e Francisco Raposos

Judge Carlos Gamboa and Francisco Raposo.

BIOGUARD WINS ADRENAX CHALLENGE

Augusto Camargo, Patrizia Parenti e o time Bioguard

Augusto Camargo and Patrizia Parenti with Annelisa (Bioguard).

LQBB WINS BANCO VOTORANTIM CHALLENGE

Rene Fernandes e o time LQBB

Rene Fernandes, competition director, and the students Adelia and Marcela (LQBB).

NANOITA WINS FGVCENN CHALLENGE

Amanda Caramico e os ganhadores da FGVcenn Challenge

Thiago e Sergio receive the certificate from Amanda Caramico, junior researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurship at FGV (FGVcenn).

Introduction

Do you want to develop businesses marketing new and exciting innovations? Is working on multi-disciplinary teams for you ideal? Does creating and presenting your innovation to an audience sound energizing? Not the least, do you want to win valuable prizes?

Then Idea-to-Product Competition Latin America is the opportunity you have been looking for.

The Centro de Empreendedorismo e Novos Negócios da Fundação Getulio Vargas – GVcenn will promote in 2009 the 2nd edition of the Idea-to-Product Competition – Latin America. The Idea to Product® Competitions, founded at The University of Texas at Austin, are early-stage technology commercialization plan competitions that aim for unique product ideas with clear market demand that use innovative technologies.  The goal is educating and developing the next generation of technology entrepreneurs. The program is particularly interested in matching technologies resulting from a university's fundamental research programs with potential markets. From now the FGV is responsible for the Latin American version of the challenge. The winning team will be automatically invited to participate in the Idea-to-Product Global, in the United States, with the winners from others local competitions. The Latin American contest wishes to bring to Sao Paolo a representative from each of the most important schools from all 33 countries in the region.

Idea-to-Product Latin America is an innovative competition inspiring the innovative spirit in students around Latin American countries where participants develop a technology commercialization plan to confirm the validity and market potential of a new, innovative, and competitive product. Students then present the commercialization plan to a group of knowledgeable judges. I2P’s mission is to create a competitive Latin American forum in which to enhance cross-disciplinary studies in entrepreneurship, research, technology & emerging markets.

Forms Downloads:

Team Registration Form

Team Registration Form Guidelines

5-Page Report Guidelines

Forms can be completed in Portuguese, English or Spanish. We wish all participants the best of luck.