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Goal:
The purpose of this workshop is to inspire and motivate students, research faculty, and local entreprenours into developing their ideas into successful commercial products.
Key Values of Workshop:
- Updates on new opportunities to support the development of new businesses and innovations into successful commercial products
- Case study presentations by national-recognized innovators on how they developed their business ideas into commercial products.
- Update on current research and academic topics on innovation-based manufacturing.
- Virginia Tech students will present selected business ideas as part of the student innovation competition.
Date
November 7, 2013. 8:30 am-2:00 pm.
Tentative agenda:
- 8:00 am-8:15 am. Welcome and overview.
- 8:15 am-9:00 am. Current research in innovation-based manufacturing topics. Dr. Elisabeth Reynolds, MIT Industrial Performance Center.
- 9:00 am-9:45 am. State support programs for innovation-based manufacturing. Mr. Robert Brooke. SBIR/STTR
- 9:45 am-10:00 am. Break
- 10:00 am-10:45 am. Case study 1: Chad Schlaepfer. AMP Americas.
- 10:45 am-11:30 am. Case study 2. Robert Sturges. Arc Ablation, Virginia Tech.
- 11:30 am-12:00 pm. Round panel discussion, all speakers.
- 12:00-1:00 pm. Lunch
- 1:00 pm-2:00 pm. Student Innovation Competition. See guidelines here.
- 2:00 pm- 2:10 pm. Closing comments and adjourn
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