Monday, October 23, 2006

Business Competitions

The Haas School of Business at Berkeley Lester Center for Entrepreneurship has published a long list of competitions open to students at any business school. The list beginns with the Innovation Challenge at Darden next month, and ends with the global business plan competition at Singapore Management University next July.

The World Bank Development Marketplace has pointers to several competitions in addition to the Global Development Marketplace, held every 12-18 months and open to all ideas that meet the published eligibility criteria. Awards range from US$50,000 to US$200,000. (Proposals for 2007 are due November 17, 2006)

This year they are seeking projects that improve health, nutrition and population outcomes for poor people in developing countries. Proposals should also address sub-themes, such as cost-effective approaches/methods/technologies to improve local capacity to gather, analyze and apply health, nutrition and population data. Last year, 2,600 proposals were submitted; 30 were funded.

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