Welcome to Silicon Valley Neat Ideas Fair 2006
(Hosted by the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship)
The Silicon Valley Neat Ideas Fair, 2006 was held on November 29th and 30th.
Click here for all SVNIF 2006 prize winners.
Find out about the 2006 Neat Ideas Fair by reading Birth of a Notion (San José Mercury News article)
Mission:
The Neat Ideas Fair is an annual forum to promote creativity and
entrepreneurship at SJSU by generating and highlighting Neat Business Ideas.
Competition
open to anyone affiliated with SJSU (students, alumni, faculty, and
staff)
A
chance for students from different disciplines to interact and build
entrepreneurial teams
An
opportunity for participants to get feedback from many sources on their
ideas
A venue for participants to explain and market their ideas to industry
professionals
Competition
areas: Best Neat Idea, Best Elevator Pitch, Best Executive Summary & People’s
choice
Goals: The goal of the
NIF is to promote creativity and entrepreneurship at SJSU and to strengthen
the connective fabric of innovation and entrepreneurship within SJSU and between
the University and the local community.
To
provide the following benefits to key constituents.
Benefits for Competitors:
Discovering
the entrepreneurial value of their talents and ideas
Providing
opportunities for interdisciplinary feedback from many sources
Creating
interdisciplinary relationships with other participants
Showcasing
and promoting their talents and ideas
Learning
to sell their ideas and become entrepreneurs
Networking
with industry professionals who are interested in entrepreneurial ideas
Possibility
of winning accolades and prizes
Potentially
meeting course requirements
Engaging
in an activity that can enhance their resumes
Benefits for Faculty:
Broadening
curriculum to include practical applications of concepts
Providing
venue to showcase student projects
Increasing
marketability of degree programs
Motivating
students to follow-through with ideas
Demonstrating
the impact of subject-specific knowledge within a societal context
Increasing
opportunities for interdisciplinary relationships
Improving
prestige of SJSU in the community
Attracting
companies to hire our students
Benefits for Community Partners:
Increasing
exposure and building relationship with SJSU and its 30,000 students
Enhancing
public image and promoting name recognition
Creating
a better entrepreneurial infrastructure for the Silicon Valley
Finding
talented students and good ideas to help fill their “talent
pipeline”
Tapping
into the entrepreneurship expertise at SJSU
Identifying
potential interns, employees and business partners
Benefiting
from enriched education process at SJSU
Participating
in the growth of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community
