BEST-India 2010 Biotechnology Entrepreneurship

BEST-India 2010 Biotechnology Entrepreneurship

BEST-India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams) is aimed at encouraging young postgraduate and doctoral students in developing biotechnology entrepreneurship and exposing them to issues involved in commercialization of bio-science.

BEST is sponsored by the Department of Biotechnology (www.dbtindia.nic.in), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and is administered by ABLE - India (www.ableindia.org)

Eligibility-:
Applicants must be students who are pursuing their masters, doctoral degree, BE or B Tech courses in the area of life sciences (bioscience / biotechnology and/or related subjects) from Indian universities / Institutes.

Students of the above disciplines who have completed their courses not earlier than April 2009 can also participate.

The applicants should form a team of 5 students and nominate a team leader. The individual team members may or may not be from the same Institute/University. One third of the team members can be from disciplines other than life sciences.

Teams who have participated in BEST 2009 can also take part but with a different concept idea.

Each team will submit only one entry.

Core biotechnology disciplines under which Concept Notes will be invited include Agriculture, Aquaculture, Alternate Energy/Bio-energy, Bioinformatics, Biological Applications, Bioprocess Engineering, Environment, Food, Human Resource Development, Medical, Medical Diagnostics, Medical devices, Medical Therapeutics, Nanobiology/Nanobiotechnology, Vaccines.

The proposals could be either for product, service or an application.

The 3 Winning teams will also be awarded Prize money of Rs.500,000/-, Rs. 300,000/- and Rs. 200,000/ respectively.

The winning teams will be given an opportunity to attend and present their business plans at ABLE’s Annual BioInvest Conference. BioInvest is ABLE’s flagship conference that brings together on one platform Life Science Companies, Institutional Investors and Investment Bankers to explore opportunities for investment

Last date for uploading applications is March 31 2010

For more information visit- http://www.ableindia.org/