Want to gain start-up skills? Interested in technology commercialization?

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and UW Center for Commercialization (C4C) are working together to provide an opportunity for MBA and other UW graduate students to expand career experience.

C4C's New Ventures Unit, which helps evolve ideas from concept to start-up, is recruiting graduate students with strong business and marketing skills, and an interest in technology commercialization. Technology commercialization interns may be assigned to work on a specific start-up project, or with an entrepreneur-in-residence or a technology manager on multiple projects. Students become integral members of C4C start-up teams, conducting market research, developing business plans and exploring funding potential.

See current and future intern projects on the C4C blog, as well as requirements, prerequisites and intern functions.

· Opportunity to work with C4C’s experienced technology managers to identify and support promising new technologies for development and commercialization.
· Potential opportunity to take your technology project to UW competitions, such as CIE’s Environmental Innovation Challenge and Business Plan Competition.
· Mentorship from C4C’s team of entrepreneurs-in-residence, seasoned entrepreneurs and business executives who work closely with teams on product and market development as they explore funding opportunities and staffing needs.
· Opportunity to collaborate with UW’s entrepreneurial researchers across campus.
· Invitations to entrepreneurial seminars, showcases and networking events.
· Letters of recommendation from Technology Managers and Entrepreneurs-in-Residence.
· Development of concrete deliverables to add to your resume and/or portfolio.

Course Credit
These UNPAID internships are available for autumn, winter and spring quarters (with the potential to continue forward), and are eligible for 2 credits per quarter as an independent study (ENTRE 600). You will be awarded a credit / no credit grade.

Time Commitment
Expect to spend about 10 hours a week for the quarter on a combination of meetings, phone calls, and independent research. If you are a student who also has a full-time job, please comment on your flexibility and availability for meetings with inventors and the tech managers.