ENGG197: Researching Grants & Venture Capital   Tags: engs.197-wi13, rgvc  

helps people in the Dartmouth community learn and implement entrepreneurship ... from strategic advice, one-on-one mentoring and networking opportunities to infrastructure and office space

from the Graduate Studies office

central resource to support the research enterprise at Dartmouth by providing guidance and stewardship for the research community

Patenting and licensing of inventions; Industrially sponsored research agreements, including SBIRs and STTRs ... issues concerning academic collaborations with industry

Actively involved in the practitioning communities of private equity, both to gain information about current trends and challenges and to share insights and solutions. The center interacts with institutional investors, venture capitalists, buy-out investors, corporate venturers, angel investors, entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, industry lawyers and accountants, industry associations, and the media.

Intended both as a basic primer on the grantseeking process and as an introduction to some of the resources available with a special emphasis on those issued by the Foundation Center.

see Venture Capital 101; ... A venture capitalist may invest before there is a real product or company organized (so called "seed investing"), or may provide capital to start up a company in its first or second stages of development known as "early stage investing" ...

see: Book 0: Introduction to Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance

... private equity capital typically provided for early-stage, high-potential, growth companies in the interest of generating a return ... investments are generally made as cash ... typical back companies in high technology industries such as biotechnology ...

three academic researchers talked with Science Careers about how they started their own businesses, and how other scientists can do the same.