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Big Bang! Adds Medical Technology Track
Business Plan Competition Partners with NSF-Funded Program
The MBA student-run Big Bang! Business Plan Competition got a booster shot this year with a new track offering $45,000 to the most innovative medical technologies being developed in the Sacramento region, a burgeoning sector driven by pioneering research being done at the UC Davis Health System.
The NSF I-Corps Is Turning Scientists Into Savvy Entrepreneurs
Vaccine from tobacco: Big Bang! Business Plan Competition 2010 winner, Inserogen, is highlighted: “One team from UC Davis has developed a method to quickly grow and extract vaccines from tobacco plant leaves. Using the leaves, the team can grow a full-fledged vaccine in just six weeks, at a cheaper cost that traditional production methods, which usually involves extracting vaccines from fluid in chicken eggs.”
UC Davis Big Bang! Business Plan Competition 2011 Final Presentations
Big Bang! finalist teams pitch their start-up ventures and the contest winners are announced at the finals of the MBA-student run business plan competition.
Big Vision, Big Investment
Bloo Solar, which took second place in the 2005 Big Bang! Business Plan Competition, has closed an $8 mil. round of VC financing as it prepares to start manufacturing “third-generation” solar panels based on UC Davis nanotechnology.
Chemo Technology Wins Top Prize in Big Bang!
For certain cancers, fewer than half of patients respond to chemotherapy. But ineffective treatment may soon be a problem of the past, thanks to a new technology invented at UC Davis.
Tobacco-plant Vaccine Plan Wins Big Bang! Business Plan Competition
Inserogen, a team of UC Davis graduate students led by Lucas Arzola, has won the top prize in this year’s Big Bang! Annual Business Plan Competition for their plan to manufacture vaccines out of tobacco plants. The contest, which is organized by students at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, awards a top prize of $15,000.
Big Changes as Big Bang! Contest Marks 10th Anniversary
Big Bang! is getting bigger, and more Sacramento-area business students have been invited to join the annual business plan competition run by MBA students of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
UC Davis’s Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy
Professor Andrew Hargadon, the founding director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center (EEC), was featured in the May issue of Fast Company. The article recognized Hargadon’s leadership at the forefront of the energy efficiency wave by fostering networks linking entrepreneurs, scientists, venture capitalists and business students.
Big Bang! Combines Talent, Competition and Money
Three young scientists with a potentially lucrative idea for getting patients out of hospitals faster took home the $15,000 first prize at the annual Big Bang! business-plan competition organized by UC Davis MBA students. The event rewards innovation at UC Davis and encourages entrepreneurship in the region at large.