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Requirements
From 2012e.igem.org
Note: The requirements for participating in iGEM Entrepreneurship Division 2012 are below. iGEM HQ reserves the right to alter or amend the requirements at any time, so do check back from time to time. Any major changes will be communicated via email and the iGEM website.
Requirements for Participation in iGEM Entrepreneurship Competition 2012
- Developing your iGEM Entrepreneurship Team
- Students: Undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline at an accredited college or university who have not yet earned their chosen degree [at the time of Team Registration i.e. March]. Each team should have at least four students, with half of the students being undergraduates. 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.
- 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.
- Primary Faculty Advisor: 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. The primary faculty advisor will also be the designated primary emergency contact for the team.
- 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.
Team structure: Students are responsible for the primary work of a team. The standard iGEM team must have at least a 2:1 ratio of undergraduate Students to postgraduate Advisors. Several schools may combine to form a team and one school may have several teams.
- Confidentiality: Before submitting entries, teams should confirm with appropriate legal counsel that any intellectual property described in their summary is protected by appropriate filings, notices, patents, copyrights, or is intended to NOT be bound by them. It is up to the team to inform their advisors about the generally open and educational nature of the competition, and that anything posted in the team Wiki, presented in a written executive summary, abstract or iGEM presentation is considered a public presentation and disclosure. Teams should determine in advance whether their submission describes a technology, invention, copyrightable work or other intellectual property owned by their School or University in accordance with local school policies and legal regulations. Any potentially confidential information in written business plan submissions for judging must be clearly marked as so, and a second revised business plan must be submitted for general public posting and clearly marked on the title page as so. Note that iGEM Entreprenuership division does not require judges to sign non-disclosure agreements.
- Registration and Other Fees:
- Team registration: A $2000USD registration fee is required for each team. See the Team Registration Fee page.
- Regional Jamboree attendance fee: $225USD for each undergraduate; $425USD for all other attendees.
- World Championship Jamboree attendance fee: $225USD is required for each undergraduate and $425USD for all other attendees for teams that advance to the World Championship Jamboree. See the Jamboree Attendance Fee page.
- Project Documentation:
- Wiki: You have the freedom to be creative, but a few specific rules apply. See the wiki requirements.
- Data Page: Your Wiki must include one page that shows:
- A simple illustration of how the device works and where the Parts function in the system and
- Links to the Registry for the parts/ constructs for which you have produced data.
- Parts Submission:
- Standard biological parts in a standard BioBrick shipping plasmid, and as
- High-quality documentation in the online registry
- Software:
- Attributions:
- Safety:
- Safety Questions: Teams are required to answer the Safety questions on their team Safety Wiki page. See the Safety page for the list of questions.
- Deadline: Questions must be answered by the deadline. See Calendar for details.
- Project Presentation:
- Positive Contribution:
The iGEM Entrepreneurship Division aims primarily to educate 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. As such, teams should be composed mostly of students enrolled in degree-granting programs. However, successful entrepreneurs seldom succeed alone. They are able to identify, attract, and work in teams composed of individuals with diverse and complementary skillsets, levels of experience and unique, sometimes clashing, viewpoints while still making progress and maintaining a team environment that invigorates team members. Below are some of the roles we expect all teams to have.
Optionally:
The team's project must be documented on the iGEM Wiki, the parts used in their project must be documented in the Registry online.
Do not expect the judges to look for data on other pages in your Wiki. See the Sample Data page.
Your submissions are needed to make the Registry better and better every year. Teams are required to provide their parts to the Registry as:
The physical DNA must be received by the Registry the deadline. Be sure you understand the requirements before submitting your DNA by the deadline. The standard shipping plasmid for the Registry is pSB1C3. See the DNA submission page for more details.
Be sure you understand the requirements before submitting your DNA by the deadline.
If your team is participating in the software tools track, you must make tools for use with standard BioBrick parts. Software tools must be available as open source projects on the iGEM servers. See more information on the Software Tools page.
The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the Students and distinguish it from work done by others, including the host labs, Advisors, Instructors, technicians, sponsors, professional website designers/ artists, and commercial services.
All team members are required to attend their Regional Jamboree in October 2011. Each team will give 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.
If you have any questions about the requirements for participating in iGEM 2011, contact the staff at iGEM Headquarters.
