Featured speakers include Governor Jim Geringer and Senator Mike Enzi. Sponsored by MSU TechLink, and the Montana Department of Commerce. State representatives will explain the Illinois Challenge Grant Program and the Illinois Technology Development Bridge Fund and proposal writing. Learn how to acquire venture capital. This workshop will center on presentations by the highly regarded Greenwood Group, but will also include overviews by several SBIR managers, Sandia National Labs, and state and local resource organizations.
Registration is FREE, but mandatory.
An additional focus of this conference will include commercialization and information pertaining to EPSCoR states and rural areas. Additional information will be available in July. Financing, managing and marketing a business requires a different skill set than those traditionally taught to science and technology majors in college and graduate schools. Yet, at some point in their career, many of these professionals want to start businesses of their own and are highly motivated to succeed. As the recent failure of many dot-coms illustrated, even a great technical idea requires good business skills to achieve profitability.