1. TEC Technology Entrepreneur Center

2. TEC Created in 2000 Located in College of Engineering
Campus-wide entrepreneurship programs
providing students and faculty with the skills, resources and experiences necessary to become successful innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders who tackle grand challenges and change the world
TEC OFFERS:
Courses
Programs
Experiences

3. Courses 13 Different Courses offered through TEC
9 Undergraduate & 6 Graduate
3 Undergraduate courses LLC specific
Focus of courses:
Overview of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Guest Lectures
Projects
Legal, Marketing, Finance, Venture-Funded Startups
~900 students take courses annually

4. Why Take TEC Courses?
Build skill sets necessary to be entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial
Network opportunities
Receive a certificate
Resume builder to show narrow focus and commitment to learning/honing skills

5. Certificates 3 undergraduate 2 graduate
ILEE (Innovation, Leadership, and Engineering Entrepreneurship)
30 hours, including experiential
Innovation
Sequence of courses
Technology Commercialization
2 graduate
Business Management
Strategic Technology Management

6. PROGRAMS ~5,000 student participants annually SocialFuse (Sept 8th)
a pitching and networking event that brings students, faculty and community together and fuses them through skills, ideas, and entrepreneurial ambition
Illinois Innovation Prize
is awarded on an annual basis to the most innovative student on campus
Cozad New Venture Competition
designed to encourage students to create new businesses and offers teams assistance in the form of mentors to help guide them through the phases of venture creation, workshops to help with idea validation, pitching skills

7. COZAD NEW VENTURE COMPETITION 2014-2015
15th year; Campus-wide
~$160K in FUNDING and prizes
Spans 4 months
2015 winners: PSYONIC & FlipWord
TEC’s flagship Program: I list our sponsors from last year because it really is a community effort.
Proud to note that most of the student companies and alumni panel companies participated and won awards in the Cozad New Venture Competition. And they are still here in Illinois.
OrangeQC, StudyCloud, PrintECO, Oso Technologies, Cellular Diagnostics, Microlution, and Servabo are all here today.
Again thanks for those groups here today that have participated in the past that have made it possible – like Joe Jablonski and WeGather, Origin Ventures, IllinoisVentures, HydePark Venture Partners, Lightbank, ITA, and TechNexus.
If you are here today and not on this list, we’d love to have you involved this year.

8. EXPERIENCES Silicon Valley Student Trips (application due Sept 28th)
January 10-16, with students
Visit alumni tech companies in Silicon Valley
ThinkChicago Workshops
Students take a tour of Chicago’s fast-growing tech scene
ThinkChicago: Chicago Ideas Week Ideas Week applications due Mon Sept 7th, event Oct 15-17th
Partnership with the City of Chicago, World Business Chicago and 1871
Innovation Living Learning Community
Located in Illinois Street Residence Hall
Partnership between TEC and Housing
200 students

9. TEC Brooke Newell bsnewell@Illinois.edu Stephanie Larson