WBT - IC2 Business Plan Competition

IC2 Student Commercialization Plan Competition -- March 15-17, 2010






Winner: Brigham Young University
Technology: Altus Poles
Mark Jensen
Sam Kearl
Neal Watterson

Runner-up: Johns Hopkins University
Technology: CervoCheck
Rose Huang
Christoper Courville
Karin Hwang
Deepika Sagaram

Elevator Pitch: Rice University
Technology: Rebellion Photonics
Anne Robin
Allison Lami
Tadzia GrandPre
Frances Parker
Robert Kester



Download the 2010 WBT-IC2 Competition Program


About the Competition


The IC² & WBT University Technology Commercialization Competition in Arlington, Texas encourages graduate students to commercialize technologies developed at their universities and to facilitate the resulting new ventures obtaining funding.

This Competition differs from other business plan competitions in several important ways:
  • The basis for the new ventures must be a technology developed at a university.
  • The teams presenting will be committed to launching their ventures.
  • Each team will be required to include at least one graduate student.
  • Universities from across the United States will be invited to send teams.

The First Place winner receives an invitation to the Global MOOT CORP Competition in Austin in May 5-8, 2010.

The IC² Student Commercialization Plan Competition is collocated with the WBTshowcase offering many advantages:
  • Investors focusing on university technology commercialization will be in attendance and are likely to observe the Competition.
  • Some of these investors will be judges for the Competition.
  • Competitors get a complimentary 2-day pass to the WBTshowcase.


The Competition is sponsored by:



Our thanks to the director of the 2010 competition, Gary Cadenhead, Director of the MSTC Program at the University of Texas at Austin.