Medical Business Idea 2012

The 5th Entrepreneurship Competition is open for all registered participants of the 2012 Summit. In order to support first steps in medical entrepreneurship, we at Stiftung Charité are looking for early stage medical business ideas, not yet a business plan.
Each contribution will be evaluated by a professional jury; selected candidates may be invited for a short pitch in the morning of 24th April.
 
Up to three cash-prizes and additional business-coachings will be awarded to teams or individuals:
 
1st place:  3,000 EUR
2nd place: 2,000 EUR
3rd place:  1,000 EUR
 
Please send us your medical business idea by 31st  March, 2012, on no more than 4 pages using our questionnaire. We do not expect your idea to be very advanced or at the level of a professional business plan yet. You can hand in your idea alone or with your team; feel free to hand in as many medical business ideas as you have, as long as you follow the above requirements.
We guarantee to handle your application for the Entrepreneurship Competition confidentially. Your documents will be reviewed by a professional jury, whose members are bound by a confidentiality agreement. Please let us know if you do not wish to have your business idea named if you receive an award.
Those applicants who make the short list may be asked to pitch their idea in front of the jury on the morning of 24th  April. Please make yourself and your team available in case the jury wishes to see you. In case your business idea is not selected by the jury, we may still offer to develop your idea further and assist you in becoming a biomedical entrepreneur.
For your application, please use the questionnaire. You can either print the questionnaire or send it to: elsbeth.hacker@charite.de. In case you don’t want to answer a question in the questionnaire, just leave the question unanswered.
In case you have any query, please feel free to contact Elsbeth Hacker at Stiftung Charité, either by phone +49 (0) 30 – 450 570 - 509 or via e-mail: elsbeth.hacker@charite.de.

We are looking forward to receiving your medical business ideas!