2010 Rice University Business Plan Competition to Award $100,000 DFJ Mercury Tech Transfer Investment Prize

Unique and marketable university spin-out technology will be the key to winning the new $100,000 DFJ Mercury Tech Transfer Investment Prize at the 2010 Rice Business Plan Competition http://www.alliance.rice.edu/alliance/Default.asp , April 15-17, at Rice University.

The purpose of the DFJ Mercury Tech Transfer Investment Prize is to encourage the commercialization of university technologies, or those technologies developed by faculty, researchers, and/or students at universities.

To be considered a university spin-out, the business plan can be based on a start-up company that licenses technology from a single or multiple universities, and/or a company led by a student team from a university.

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