Requirements

The iGEM Entrepreneurship Division aims to educate students and non-students in the skills that make entrepreneurs successful, immerse them in the global entrepreneurial networks and have fun in the process of developing plans for and actually creating new organizations, policy, economic, legal and social frameworks for the Synthetic Biology industry.

• Students: Undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline at an accredited college or university can participate in a team. Undergraduates include students working towards a combined bachelor’s/master’s degree. Postgraduate students, or postdocs, may not be counted as graduate students but may serve advisors, but not primary advisors.

  Team structure: Students are responsible for the primary work of a team. Several schools may combine to form a team and one school may have several teams.

• Faculty Advisors: Each team must work with at least two faculty members, one from a school of management or business school, and one from any other disciple including, but not limited to, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, law, and government. Additional faculty members may also be listed as faculty advisors. One of the faculty members must be designated as the primary faculty advisor. She or he is ultimately responsible for the official registration of the team, the team roster, and payment of team fees.
• Advisors: In addition to the required roles above, teams are encouraged to recruit non-faculty advisors, or simply advisors. Typical advisors include active and past entrepreneurs, faculty entrepreneurs on temporary leave, technical and non-technical industry practitioners and postdocs, legal advisors, policy and industry analysts, private equity (angels, VC's, PE funds) and corporate venture investors and anyone else that may provide advice and connect the team to a trusted network of advisors, potential customers, suppliers, partners, funding agencies, and regulatory authorities.

• iGEM 2012 Entrepreneurship Team registration: For 2012, a $1000USD registration fee is required for each team participating in the iGEM Entrepreneurship Division Competition. This fee will be applied to the Jamboree attendance fee.
• Jamboree attendance fee: $175USD is required for each undergraduate and $300USD for all other attendees for teams attending the iGEM 2012 Entrepreneurship Jamboree taking place 06-07 November 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

• Wiki: You have the freedom to be creative, but a few specific rules apply, and generally follow the collegiate iGEM Wiki requirements. See the wiki requirements.

Submissions are needed to create a valuable community and commons of ideas. Teams are required to document the inspiration and examples of their business models, and solutions to common problems early SB entrepreneurs will likely encounter. The team's submission must be documented on the iGEM Wiki, including but not limited to a public executive summary, elevator pitch (max 3 min) video, and public presentation (Slides).

If your team is participating in the non-business plan tracks, all presentations and if possible, data sources, must must be made available for public use. Any software tools must be available as open source projects on the iGEM servers. See more information on the Software Tools page.

If important to the submission, reference to relevant BioBrick parts must be clearly documented.

The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the Students and distinguish it from work done by others, including the Advisors, sponsors, professional website designers/ artists, and commercial services.

All team members are required to attend the Entrepreneurship Jamboree, 6-7 November 2012. Each team will give an elevator pitch, a 20 minute presentation and present a poster of their project. Oral and poster presentations must be given by the Students.

All participants are required to work hard to build positive contributions to society and have lots of fun.