Competitions & Scholarships
One of the most intensive learning experiences for students interested in invention, innovation, or launching a business, is to participate in a competition. WPI offers this rich learning experience through several of its own competitions and through promoting opportunities for its students to compete in open national and international competitions. Before making a decision to compete however, WPI highly encourages its students to understand public disclosure, IP protection, and international patent law basics. Workshops are conducted throughout the year on each of these topics. Links provide detailed information about each competition or take you to other university competition web sites. Please contact the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship & Innovation if you need information that cannot be found on these pages.
WPI Competitions:
- Elevator Pitch Competition
- WPI Venture Forum Business Plan Competition
- CEI @ WPI ALL-OUT Business Plan Challenge
- Robert H. Grant Invention Awards
- Strage Innovation Awards
- The Kalenian Award
Scholarships
Open Competitions
- Global Innovation Tournament
- Progressive Automotive X Prize
- Start It Up Fresno's $250K Entrepreneur Challenge
- Evansville New Venture Creation Competition
- Lemelson-MIT Program for Sustainable Change
- Rice University Business Plan Contest
- Wing Lung Bank International Institute for Business Development
- Biomedical Engineering Idea Competition (NCIIA)
- The $100K Innovation Challenge @Case
- Rhode Island Business Plan Competition
- Global Social Venture Competition (A competition which values, generates, and accounts for social impact)
- Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition
- The Wake Forest MBA Annual Babcock Elevator Competition
- S.E.E.D. (Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development) Competition
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- Queen's Entrepreneurship Competition
- Purdue Life Science Business Plan Contest
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