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In previous years, iGEM had an entrepreneurship track. Teams were encouraged to build projects and focus around commercializing their work. For 2015, we're removing the track and introducing an <b>award</b> for entrepreneurship.
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It is a known fact that there are already existing companies operating in the robotic laboratory platform design.
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However, those types of platforms are generally designed for high volume applications in order to repeat the same operation hundreds, if not thousands of times.  
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We rather believe that it’s possible to develop an « assistant type » robotic platform, who would replace human involvement in the execution of the majority of protocols executed, mainly those needing low thinking process and demand a significant amount of time for the professionals.  
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The robotic platform available on the market are fairly expensive and have a non-negligible maintenance and operational cost. We are targeting of producing and commercializing robotic platforms at low costs, whether in the $30K to $50K range, and which the consumable equipment is as affordable as the equipment currently used by most laboratories.
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This is what distinguishes our robotic platform from other products available by mainstream companies.  
 
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<p>In order to be considered for the <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Judging/Awards#SpecialPrizes">Best Supporting Entrepreneurship award</a>, you must fill out this page.</p>
 
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<p>The Best Supporting Entrepreneurship award recognizes exceptional effort to build a business case and commercialize an iGEM project. This award is open to all teams to show that entrepreneurship is something all teams can aspire to do with their project. This award can go to an new project, or to a previous project that a team aimed to commercialize. Have you filed a provisional patent on your project/device/process? Have you raised money to build and ship products? Have you pitched your idea to investors and received money? Complete the entrepreneurship section on the 2015 Judging form and tell us what you did. As always in iGEM, the aim is to impress the judges! </p>
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Latest revision as of 03:58, 19 September 2015

Entrepreneurship

It is a known fact that there are already existing companies operating in the robotic laboratory platform design. However, those types of platforms are generally designed for high volume applications in order to repeat the same operation hundreds, if not thousands of times. We rather believe that it’s possible to develop an « assistant type » robotic platform, who would replace human involvement in the execution of the majority of protocols executed, mainly those needing low thinking process and demand a significant amount of time for the professionals. The robotic platform available on the market are fairly expensive and have a non-negligible maintenance and operational cost. We are targeting of producing and commercializing robotic platforms at low costs, whether in the $30K to $50K range, and which the consumable equipment is as affordable as the equipment currently used by most laboratories. This is what distinguishes our robotic platform from other products available by mainstream companies.