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NCET2: Creating and Funding Globally Competitive University Startups

Upcoming Conference

University Startups Conference 09:
Creating Jobs and Powering Innovation
With University Startups
A National Conference on
Creating and Funding University Startups
Washington, D.C.
December 2-4 2009
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Upcoming Webinars

Webinar: University of Oklahoma on
Technology and Business Development
Wednesday, July 8, 1:00-2:30pm ET (10:00-11:30am PT)
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Webinar: New Researcher Commercialization Course
Starting Thursday, June 18, 1:00-2:30pm ET (10:00-11:30am PT)
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Webinar: SBIR/STTR Course
Using SBIRs/STTRs For University Startup Creation and Funding
Slides and video available
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Webinar: Harvard University on
Its Business Development Initiatives
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Webinar: Building University-Industry Collaborations
at Kodak and DuPont
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Webinar: Arizona State University's
Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE)
Slides and video available
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Webinar: Cornell's Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization (CCTEC)
Slides and video available
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Webinar: Careers Options Away from the Research Bench
for Post Docs and Other Scientists
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Webinar: Boston University on Creating and Funding
University Startups
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Webinar: University of Alabama's AIME Center
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Webinar: Georgia Tech's VentureLab
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Webinar: Investing in Innovation in France
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Webinar: National Institutes of Standards and Technology's
Technology Innovation Program (TIP)
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Webinar: Investing in Innovation in the UK
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Webinar: Purdue University's New Emerging Innovations Fund
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Do you know that:

20 year returns for Early/Seed VCs was 20.6%, compared to 13.8% for Later Stage VCs and 8.2% for the S&P 500

8 percent of all university startups go public, in comparison to a "going public rate" of only 0.07 percent for other U.S. enterprises - a 114x difference

over 400 university startups are created nationally each year based on federally funded R&D, which included Google, Netscape, Genentech, Lycos, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Cisco Systems
68% of university startups created between 1980 to 2000 remained in business in 2001, while regular startups experienced a 90% failure rate during that same time period