Award: Postdoctoral Research Awards for Entrepreneurship Excellence

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http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/entrepreneur-awards
Deadline: September 27, 2010 (Nominations)

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a private foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare, and the National Postdoctoral Association have announced the call for nominations for the 2011 Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur and Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur awards, which recognize exceptional postdocs who are working to commercialize research.

The Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur recipient will receive a $10,000 honorarium. The Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award provides a $2,500 honorarium. The awards will be presented at the NPA's 9th Annual Meeting, slated for March 25-27, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland.

To qualify for the Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur award, in addition to other criteria, an individual must hold a doctorate degree, have completed postdoctoral training in the United States, and be the founder or co-founder of a U.S. company that is commercializing or has commercialized the nominee's intellectual property. A nominee for the Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur award must hold a postdoctoral position or have completed postdoctoral training and be seeking to commercialize intellectual property, among other criteria.

Self-nomination is allowed and encouraged.

The deadline for nominations is September 27, 2010, and the deadline for submission of online applications is October 4, 2010.

Application information and complete eligibility criteria for each award are available at the link above.

Overview

Released
Aug 16, 2010 13:18 EDT
Start Date
Aug 6, 2010 00:00 EDT
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Sep 27, 2010 00:00 EDT
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Deadline September 27, 2010

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