VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic 7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

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BLACK TECH VENTURES AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE About Black Tech Ventures. Black Tech Ventures (BTV), is a Philadelphia, PA-based nonprofit organization that empowers and encourages tech-entrepreneurship among African Americans engaged in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty or professional levels. ADVANCING EQUITY IN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP advancing equity in innovation and entrepreneurship. VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a diverse pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and create lasting impact. We have a long history of—and deep commitment to—supporting faculty and innovators at US-based colleges and THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN STARTING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM Over the last 20 years, innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) courses, competitions and other experiential opportunities have gone from unusual to widespread, with over 400,000 students now taking college classes on them each year.. But it isn’t easy to found a new course or program, let alone change an entire campus culture. EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™ Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a EIGHT TYPES OF PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEM: EIGHT WAYS TO EIGHT TYPES OF PRODUCT– SERVICE SYSTEM: EIGHT WAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY? EXPERIENCES FROM SUSPRONET Arnold Tukker* TNO Institute of Strategy, Technology and Policy, The Netherlands VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic 7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

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BLACK TECH VENTURES AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE About Black Tech Ventures. Black Tech Ventures (BTV), is a Philadelphia, PA-based nonprofit organization that empowers and encourages tech-entrepreneurship among African Americans engaged in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty or professional levels. ADVANCING EQUITY IN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP advancing equity in innovation and entrepreneurship. VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a diverse pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and create lasting impact. We have a long history of—and deep commitment to—supporting faculty and innovators at US-based colleges and THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN STARTING AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM Over the last 20 years, innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) courses, competitions and other experiential opportunities have gone from unusual to widespread, with over 400,000 students now taking college classes on them each year.. But it isn’t easy to found a new course or program, let alone change an entire campus culture. EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™ Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a EIGHT TYPES OF PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEM: EIGHT WAYS TO EIGHT TYPES OF PRODUCT– SERVICE SYSTEM: EIGHT WAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY? EXPERIENCES FROM SUSPRONET Arnold Tukker* TNO Institute of Strategy, Technology and Policy, The Netherlands DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

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OUR STAFF - VENTUREWELL phil weilerstein. Phil has led VentureWell since its founding in 1996 and today serves as President and CEO. By developing and expanding VentureWell’s programs on a national and global scale, Phil has helped advance VentureWell’s mission to solve global challenges through science- and technology-driven innovation and

entrepreneurship.

ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY: OUR REFLECTIONS AND ONGOING a message from Phil Weilerstein, CEO and President of VentureWell. The events and changes of this past year have transformed the world. The brutal murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery sparked ongoing global protests against racism and police brutality, heightening awareness of systemic racism in the United States and the violence it begets, intensifying the urgency for RADX PARTNERSHIPS SPEED NEW COVID TESTING When it was founded in 2014, the Lincoln, Nebraska, diagnostics firm MatMaCorp focused its business on the pressing local need of helping farmers test livestock for often-devastating viral diseases. With the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, however, the company recognized that its portable and user-friendly “pen-side” virus-testing technology might be adapted to help an even more urgent 6 VIRTUAL CLASSROOM EXERCISES TO KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED the envelope activity. Developed by Tina Seelig at Stanford University, the Envelope Activity requires students to increase an initial, unknown investment provided to them in an envelope over the course of two hours. In the online revamp of this activity, the envelope becomes virtual: one of the students in the group receives a

small amount of

COVID-19 TESTING: THREE BREAKTHROUGH SOLUTIONS IN THE RADX COVID-19 testing: three breakthrough solutions in the RADx initiative. Scientific innovation has proven to be vital in the global effort to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 testing, once extremely limited, has been expanded to over 2 million tests per day in the U.S. through central laboratory testing, point-of-care testing A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PROBLEM-SOLVING the what, why, and how of a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving. From student teams to scientific and academic institutions, many recognize that complex problems are best solved when a group leverages diverse perspectives, expanding the possible solutions through multiple business, technology, design, social science, and scientific BUILDING A BETTER STARTUP ECOSYSTEM: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Building a Better Startup Ecosystem: Strategies for Success. Establishing and sustaining a healthy startup ecosystem has become a goal for regions looking to stimulate economic development and innovation. But as their advocates are discovering, a startup ecosystem—like the biological systems they are named for—can be complex phenomena to FIVE MODELS FOR SCALING UP A GLOBAL HEALTH VENTURE Model 1. Organic growth with selective outsourcing. The organization, led by the innovator—you—grows as needed and only seeks outside help when necessary. The innovator often creates a new entity to drive the scale-up. Most feasible when the capabilities needed for scale-up can be developed in-house by the innovator and her or his team LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT Time Estimate: 1—5 hours. Make a table of your invention’s Bill of Materials (BOM) and manufacturing methods as best you can: how many grams of this material, formed with what manufacturing method, how many pounds of that material, everything. Also include an estimate of energy use during product lifetime, transportation from the VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability E-TEAM GRANT PROGRAM we help student inventors make an impact on the world. The E-Team program supports dedicated science- and engineering-based student teams from across the nation in bringing their high-impact innovation out of the lab and into the market. Every year, we award over $700,000 in non-dilutive E-Team grants to these early-stage student science and tech startups who are on the path to launching DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

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7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. I-CORPS™ COURSE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS To guide I-Corps™ Teams on the Customer Discovery Process, these instructional videos should cover the required planning, skills and tips for productive customer interviews. However, if you are attending a National Cohort, please view these videos within your assigned course management software. Pre-Planning Customer Discovery. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) HELIX STEEL: UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Helix Steel: Unlikely Champions of Sustainable Design. When Luke Pinkerton first started working on Helix Steel at the University of Michigan as an engineer in late ’90s, he was trying to solve the problem of concrete: it’s inherently weak. Along the way, he helped create a technology that’s reducing the construction industry’s

carbon

EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™EVIDENCE BASED VOCATIONAL CURRICULUMEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR ADULTSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR TEENSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR YOUTHEVIDENCE BASED GROUP THERAPY CURRICULUMFREE EVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability E-TEAM GRANT PROGRAM we help student inventors make an impact on the world. The E-Team program supports dedicated science- and engineering-based student teams from across the nation in bringing their high-impact innovation out of the lab and into the market. Every year, we award over $700,000 in non-dilutive E-Team grants to these early-stage student science and tech startups who are on the path to launching DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

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7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. I-CORPS™ COURSE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS To guide I-Corps™ Teams on the Customer Discovery Process, these instructional videos should cover the required planning, skills and tips for productive customer interviews. However, if you are attending a National Cohort, please view these videos within your assigned course management software. Pre-Planning Customer Discovery. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) HELIX STEEL: UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Helix Steel: Unlikely Champions of Sustainable Design. When Luke Pinkerton first started working on Helix Steel at the University of Michigan as an engineer in late ’90s, he was trying to solve the problem of concrete: it’s inherently weak. Along the way, he helped create a technology that’s reducing the construction industry’s

carbon

EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™EVIDENCE BASED VOCATIONAL CURRICULUMEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR ADULTSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR TEENSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR YOUTHEVIDENCE BASED GROUP THERAPY CURRICULUMFREE EVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a OUR STAFF - VENTUREWELL phil weilerstein. Phil has led VentureWell since its founding in 1996 and today serves as President and CEO. By developing and expanding VentureWell’s programs on a national and global scale, Phil has helped advance VentureWell’s mission to solve global challenges through science- and technology-driven innovation and

entrepreneurship.

BLACK TECH VENTURES AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE About Black Tech Ventures. Black Tech Ventures (BTV), is a Philadelphia, PA-based nonprofit organization that empowers and encourages tech-entrepreneurship among African Americans engaged in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty or professional levels. WE JUST ANNOUNCED THE SPRING 2021 E-TEAM COHORT. MEET THE We awarded $70K in funding to 14 student teams developing high-impact innovations. We are excited to announce the 14 early-stage student innovator teams who have been accepted into Stage 1 of our Spring 2021 E-Team Grant Program!The teams were chosen based on the potential for their innovation to have a significant positive social, health, or environmental impact. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) WHOLE SYSTEM MAPPING Exercise Time Estimate: 2—4 hours There are four steps in the Whole System Mapping design method: Step 1: Visually map the product’s (or service’s) system. Step 2: Use estimated life cycle assessment (LCA) to set environmental priorities, then balance with business or other priorities. Step 3: Brainstorm on the system map you created (helps ideation be more thorough and radical). NATIONAL INNOVATION NETWORK VentureWell and NSF have combined forces to launch the National Innovation Network (NIN) to help university researchers fast track their technological innovations and bring their discoveries to people who need them. Every day, researchers are working on campuses across the country pushing the boundaries of science and technology to

improve lives.

VERIZON & CGI U SOCIAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE WINNERS TO Verizon & CGI U Social Innovation Challenge Winners to Participate in Pioneer Training Workshop. Learn more. CONDUCTING CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS: TIPS, DO'S, AND DON'TS Tips for Effective Customer Interviews. Before conducting customer interviews, there are a few things to consider: Focus on the problem. The first thing to understand: You are not selling anything. Chances are you don’t have anything to sell yet, so focus on the problem first. Define customer archetypes. It’s crucial to understand to

whom

NIH TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR CHALLENGE: NON-INVASIVE Through this Challenge, NIBIB will offer $1,000,000 in prizes to reward and spur the development of platform concepts and prototypes of non-invasive, multiplexed diagnostic technologies for sickle cell disease, malaria and anemia, diseases with high global and public

health impact.

RETHINKING PITCH COMPETITIONS: CREATE VALUE, NOT A SPECTACLE rethinking pitch competitions: create value, not a spectacle. We updated this article to include information on how to best translate pitch competitions to a virtual platform. The article was originally published on September 25, 2018. Eli Velasquez, Director of Venture Development at VentureWell, has many years of experience developing VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability E-TEAM GRANT PROGRAM we help student inventors make an impact on the world. The E-Team program supports dedicated science- and engineering-based student teams from across the nation in bringing their high-impact innovation out of the lab and into the market. Every year, we award over $700,000 in non-dilutive E-Team grants to these early-stage student science and tech startups who are on the path to launching DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

(DEBUT

7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. I-CORPS™ COURSE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS To guide I-Corps™ Teams on the Customer Discovery Process, these instructional videos should cover the required planning, skills and tips for productive customer interviews. However, if you are attending a National Cohort, please view these videos within your assigned course management software. Pre-Planning Customer Discovery. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) HELIX STEEL: UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Helix Steel: Unlikely Champions of Sustainable Design. When Luke Pinkerton first started working on Helix Steel at the University of Michigan as an engineer in late ’90s, he was trying to solve the problem of concrete: it’s inherently weak. Along the way, he helped create a technology that’s reducing the construction industry’s

carbon

EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™EVIDENCE BASED VOCATIONAL CURRICULUMEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR ADULTSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR TEENSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR YOUTHEVIDENCE BASED GROUP THERAPY CURRICULUMFREE EVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a VENTUREWELL HOME PAGE VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique NIH AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE COVID-19 TESTING The COVID-19 pandemic has caused dramatic upheaval, devastation, and uncertainty across the world. Within the United States, the virus has reached all 50 states, and the World Health Organization has tracked over 4.3 million confirmed cases, as of July 30, 2020.From the early days of the outbreak, it was clear that one of the key factors in appropriately addressing and mitigating the pandemic

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tools for design and sustainability. As engineers and designers, what you create will impact the world we live in. To help solve the global issues we face today, it’s more important than ever to invent products and services that help people and the world. Inventing green can mean inventing a technology whose whole purpose is sustainability E-TEAM GRANT PROGRAM we help student inventors make an impact on the world. The E-Team program supports dedicated science- and engineering-based student teams from across the nation in bringing their high-impact innovation out of the lab and into the market. Every year, we award over $700,000 in non-dilutive E-Team grants to these early-stage student science and tech startups who are on the path to launching DEBUT 2021 CHALLENGE with $115,000 in prizes for 2021, the DEBUT Challenge is open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams

(DEBUT

7 CLASS EXERCISES TO AMPLIFY INNOVATIVE THINKING 7) The Pitch Competition Exercise. “I teach a biodesign class that focuses on the design process. During the first week of class, students are asked to pitch what they think is the greatest problem that must be solved. The students vote on which problems to tackle. Half of the ideas are cut. I-CORPS™ COURSE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS To guide I-Corps™ Teams on the Customer Discovery Process, these instructional videos should cover the required planning, skills and tips for productive customer interviews. However, if you are attending a National Cohort, please view these videos within your assigned course management software. Pre-Planning Customer Discovery. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) HELIX STEEL: UNLIKELY CHAMPIONS OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Helix Steel: Unlikely Champions of Sustainable Design. When Luke Pinkerton first started working on Helix Steel at the University of Michigan as an engineer in late ’90s, he was trying to solve the problem of concrete: it’s inherently weak. Along the way, he helped create a technology that’s reducing the construction industry’s

carbon

EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP™EVIDENCE BASED VOCATIONAL CURRICULUMEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR ADULTSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR TEENSEVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM FOR YOUTHEVIDENCE BASED GROUP THERAPY CURRICULUMFREE EVIDENCE BASED CURRICULUM Steve Blank 6th edition Nov 2014 6 1. The Lean Startup Manifesto For the last decade, we’ve been teaching students how to write business plans. They were useful: 1) they provided a comprehensive way to help students envision the issues, 2) were a OUR STAFF - VENTUREWELL phil weilerstein. Phil has led VentureWell since its founding in 1996 and today serves as President and CEO. By developing and expanding VentureWell’s programs on a national and global scale, Phil has helped advance VentureWell’s mission to solve global challenges through science- and technology-driven innovation and

entrepreneurship.

BLACK TECH VENTURES AND VENTUREWELL PARTNER TO ACCELERATE About Black Tech Ventures. Black Tech Ventures (BTV), is a Philadelphia, PA-based nonprofit organization that empowers and encourages tech-entrepreneurship among African Americans engaged in a variety of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty or professional levels. WE JUST ANNOUNCED THE SPRING 2021 E-TEAM COHORT. MEET THE We awarded $70K in funding to 14 student teams developing high-impact innovations. We are excited to announce the 14 early-stage student innovator teams who have been accepted into Stage 1 of our Spring 2021 E-Team Grant Program!The teams were chosen based on the potential for their innovation to have a significant positive social, health, or environmental impact. 8 CLASS ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE INVENTOR ENTREPRENEURS Without showing their cards to other players, participants have to decode the symbols and reveal the message on their individual cards, using only oral communication. The end result: all players enter a color on a rainbow-colored game board and the whole class wins.”. 8) WHOLE SYSTEM MAPPING Exercise Time Estimate: 2—4 hours There are four steps in the Whole System Mapping design method: Step 1: Visually map the product’s (or service’s) system. Step 2: Use estimated life cycle assessment (LCA) to set environmental priorities, then balance with business or other priorities. Step 3: Brainstorm on the system map you created (helps ideation be more thorough and radical). NATIONAL INNOVATION NETWORK VentureWell and NSF have combined forces to launch the National Innovation Network (NIN) to help university researchers fast track their technological innovations and bring their discoveries to people who need them. Every day, researchers are working on campuses across the country pushing the boundaries of science and technology to

improve lives.

VERIZON & CGI U SOCIAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE WINNERS TO Verizon & CGI U Social Innovation Challenge Winners to Participate in Pioneer Training Workshop. Learn more. CONDUCTING CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS: TIPS, DO'S, AND DON'TS Tips for Effective Customer Interviews. Before conducting customer interviews, there are a few things to consider: Focus on the problem. The first thing to understand: You are not selling anything. Chances are you don’t have anything to sell yet, so focus on the problem first. Define customer archetypes. It’s crucial to understand to

whom

NIH TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATOR CHALLENGE: NON-INVASIVE Through this Challenge, NIBIB will offer $1,000,000 in prizes to reward and spur the development of platform concepts and prototypes of non-invasive, multiplexed diagnostic technologies for sickle cell disease, malaria and anemia, diseases with high global and public

health impact.

RETHINKING PITCH COMPETITIONS: CREATE VALUE, NOT A SPECTACLE rethinking pitch competitions: create value, not a spectacle. We updated this article to include information on how to best translate pitch competitions to a virtual platform. The article was originally published on September 25, 2018. Eli Velasquez, Director of Venture Development at VentureWell, has many years of experience developing

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VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges and to create lasting impact. We foster collaboration among the best minds from research labs, classrooms, and beyond to advance innovation and entrepreneurship education and to provide unique opportunities for STEM students and researchers to fully realize their potential to improve the world. EARLY-STAGE INNOVATORS We work directly with a variety of early-stage innovators to help them bring their ideas to market through workshops and training, coaching and mentoring, funding and awards.

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FACULTY INITIATIVES

We support faculty in developing programs that cultivate student innovators and promote institutional change through grants, workshops, training, and conferences.

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I&E NETWORKS

We create and build networks to strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, both nationally and within individual organizations and schools.

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$11.1MM+

IN GRANTS TO TEAMS OF STUDENT INVENTORS & ENTREPRENEURS

$11.1MM+

IN GRANTS TO FACULTY TO TRANSFORM I&E EDUCATION

2,350+

TEAMS OF INNOVATORS HAVE WORKED WITH US

977+

VENTURES HAVE EMERGED FROM OUR GRANTS OR TRAINING

IDEAS & IMPACT

Here are our top stories, new ideas & reflections.

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CATALYZING EARLY & ROBUST SUPPORT FOR STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS: Q&A WITH SADAN KULTUREL-KONAK FROM PENN STATE BERKS Faculty grantee, Sadan Kulturel-Konak engages students in entrepreneurial concepts early in their academic careers by integrating them into introductory engineering and IT classes.

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TRACKING DEHYDRATION WITH SMART WEARABLES: Q&A WITH ADRIA ABELLA VILLAFRANCA FROM E-TEAM, HDROP E-Team grantee, Adria Abella Villafranca of hDrop developed a wearable device that analyzes dehydration levels and alerts users when it’s necessary to drink water.

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EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

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FACULTY ONLINE LEARNING SERIES webinars, guides, and other resources to help you design your online virtualized class or event

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FIVE STARTUPS INNOVATING INFECTION PREVENTION VentureWell-supported innovators developing solutions to end the spread of diseases worldwide

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FUNDERS & PARTNERS

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