Intesa San Paolo Start-Up Initiative
International business plan competition on nanotechnology and polymer-based materials
Nanochallenge and Polymerchallenge 2010 offers a total amount of 600.000 euro to start your business and and join Veneto Nanotech or IMAST Italian high tech clusters!
Do you have a business idea in nanotechnology or polymer-based materials?
Then join the competition!
Allied event
Important Dates
Friday, September 17, 2010
Entry teams on-line registration due(GMT+1, 11.59 pm)
Before submitting the Executive Summary teams must register on line
Monday, September 20, 2010
Executive Summary Submission Due (GMT+1, 11.59 pm)
download the Executive Summary
Documents must be sent in pdf format to info@nanochallenge.com
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Finalist Teams Announcement
Monday, October 4, 2010
Teams submit Pledge to Compete
Monday, November 8, 2010
Written Business Plans Due (GMT+1, 11.59 pm)
Documents must be sent in pdf format to info@nanochallenge.com
Thursday and Friday, November 25 and 26, 2010
Final Contest Dates – Padova - Italy
Veneto Nanotech, the Italian Cluster of Nanotechnology, will reward and incubate tha best startup projects in nanotechnology.
IMAST, the Italian Technological District on Polymeric and Composite Materials Engineering and Structures, will back the best startups in the polymer-based materials category.
The winners have the unique opportunity to join our clusters, use our facilities and labs and become part of our reasearch , industrial and financial network.
Executive Summaries must be sent by September 20, 2010. The best ideas will be selected to run in the Final Contest in November 2010. A panel of international scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will select the winners.