Purdue Today

November 6, 2008

Environmental entrepreneurship competition seeks students' ideas

The Center for the Environment is inviting Purdue undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative ideas that will help address and prevent environmental problems as part of the Environmental Entrepreneurship Idea 2 Product ® Competition.

Prize money awards will be given to the teams with the best environmental service and product ideas. The deadline for students to submit their intent to participate and general idea is Dec. 1.

The local Purdue competition will take place March 7, 2009, and the national competition will be hosted at Purdue April 4, 2009.

The competition is a partnership between the Center for the Environment and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue's Discovery Park. For more details, visit the Center’s I2P Webpage: http://www.purdue.edu/dp/environment/I2P/