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INESC Porto is one of the partners in Alumn-I-dea Idea
Contest – Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
Internationalization, promoted by AlumniLEIC, in 2006. José
Manuel Mendonça, president of INESC Porto, is an element of
the jury that will be evaluating the ideas.
AlumniLEIC – the association of former students of
Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the
University of Porto, is promoting this contest aiming to
create 10 new technology based businesses which are
innovative and with a high potential of
internationalization. The idea is also to start a continuous
process that generates new ideas and boosts the evolution of
the entrepreneurial setting of the north through the
strengthening of the relation with the University.
The favoured areas for this contest will be the
Information and Communication Technologies, Health and
Energy. However, ideas in other areas can be presented, as
long as they have a technological basis.
The Contest is divided into three stages. The first one
will consist of the collection of an idea, formatted in a
page where the objective is to stimulate the appearing of
many ideas, in a simple way. From this first stage, around
fifty ideas will be selected and they will move on to the
next stage.
The second stage will support the selected ideas in a
proposal oriented towards a business plan. The second stage
will require a team associated to each idea, made of a
student, a teacher and someone who represents the
entrepreneurial sector. The goal is to guarantee that this
proposal has scientific validation as well as a practical
application. The organization of the contest will ease the
building of teams. The creation of this team will be a
distinguishing factor of the idea.
Twenty ideas will be selected from the third stage which
will be evaluated by a jury that will decide on the winning
ideas. For the evaluation stage, the teams will be given ten
minutes to expose their ideas before the jury. Ten of those
will be selected.
The Contest is happening in March. The first stage will
take around two months between March and April, the second
stage will take place between June and July and the third
one in September.
The ideas awarded will be granted 5000 euros and the
possibility of incubation in an adequate place. The award
will be offered directly by the sponsors and there will be a
premium sponsor associated to the event.
For more information, please contact Alumni’s Partnership
Department - .
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