2013 Sprout Grant Deadlines Announced

Call for Applications
3rd Annual Brandeis
University Virtual Incubator
“Sprout Grants”

The Brandeis University Virtual Incubator invites members of the Brandeis Community (undergrads, grad students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff) to submit an application for a “Sprout Grant”.  These grants are intended to help entrepreneurs launch their research and ideas from the lab to the market. This spring, $50,000 will be shared among the most promising proposals.

Information sessions
  • Feb 6, 2 p.m.
  • Feb 8, 10 a.m.
  • Feb 11, 2 p.m.
Deadlines for this competition:
  • Preliminary Proposal: February 15, 2013
  • Full Application: March 8, 2013
  • Judging Event: April 15, 2013

Information sessions will be held in the Shapiro Science Center 1st floor conference room (Rm 1-09) at the following dates and times:

For more information email nborman at brandeis dot edu

The Brandeis University Virtual Incubator supports entrepreneurship through educating, mentoring, networking, and sponsoring. It is sponsored by the Brandeis University Office of Technology Licensing, and funded by the Office of the Provost.

2012 Sprout Grant Competition Announced

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2nd Annual Brandeis University Virtual Incubator

“Sprout Grants”

The Brandeis University Virtual Incubator invites members of the Brandeis Community (undergrads, grad students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff) to submit an application for a “Sprout Grant”.  These grants are intended to help entrepreneurs launch their research and ideas from the lab to the market. This spring, $50,000 will be shared among the most promising proposals.

Deadlines for this competition:

  • Preliminary Proposal:  February 10, 2012
  • Full Application:  March 9, 2012
  • Judging Event:  end of March

Information sessions will be held in the 4th floor conference room in the Ros-Kos Connector at the following dates and times:

  • Jan 24, 11 a.m.
  • Jan 31, 11 a.m. 
  • Feb  2, 10 a.m.
  • Feb  7,  10 a.m.
  • Feb  9,  11 a.m.

For more information and an application, contact Irene Abrams at iabrams@brandeis.edu

The Brandeis University Virtual Incubator supports entrepreneurship through educating, mentoring, networking, and sponsoring. It is sponsored by the Brandeis University Office of Technology Licensing, Irene Abrams, Associate Provost for Innovation, and funded by the Office of the Provost.

Are You a Budding Entrepreneur? Find Out by Applying for a Seed Grant Now.

This semester, up to $50,000 in entrepreneurial research grants will be awarded to as many as four winning applicants. Undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty at Brandeis are eligible to apply. The seed grants will support research designed to step up the licensing and commercial potential of Brandeis technology. Projects may range from a new mobile app to initiating animal studies of a potential drug compound, to building a prototype of a microfluidics device, said Irene Abrams, Associate Provost for Innovation and Executive Director, Office of Technology Licensing.

The deadline for sprout grant preliminary proposals is April 13, 2011. Final applications are due April 29, 2011. Finalists will be invited to present to a panel of judges, made up of industry exerts, on May 5, 2011. For more information and application forms, email Irene Abrams at iabrams@brandeis.edu or contact OTL at (781) 736-2128, or visit the website at www.brandeis.edu/otl. The office is located on the first floor of Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Center.

Information Sessions (along with application help) will be held April 8, 10 a.m., and April 12, 11a.m. in the fourth floor conference room of the Ros-Kos connector, which is located in the Science Complex between the Rosenstiel and Kosow buildings.

Earlier this month, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Marty Krauss introduced the Virtual Incubator as a “program to help foster entrepreneurial students and faculty in the sciences at Brandeis by providing mentorship, education and small seed grants to help them move inventions from the lab to the marketplace.”

Said Abrams, “the Virtual Incubator can become a community for science and business at Brandeis — an interdisciplinary center promoting commercial application of Brandeis science and technology.”

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