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Bio-Diesel Fuel wins Intel Capital Sponsored Event
An alternative energy company called Aurora BioFuels has won the $25,000 first prize at the eighth annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition at the University of California, Berkeleys Haas School of Business.
Aurora BioFuels presented a plan showing how to create bio-diesel fuel with yields 125 times higher than existing bio-diesel conversion technologies, and at half the cost.
The company also won the Peoples Choice Award of $5,000 for garnering the most votes from the audience at the final awards ceremony on April 27.
The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition is organized by Berkeley MBA students at the Haas School of Business. It is hosted by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation in partnership with UC Berkeleys College of Engineering and School of Information, as well as with the UC San Francisco Innovation Accelerator, a lab-to-market program for ventures coming out of UCSF. Berkeley MBA students founded the competition in 1998 to help transform university innovations into viable commercial enterprises.
To participate in the competition, each ventures management team must have at least one student, alumnus or a faculty member from UC Berkeley or from UCSFs life sciences campus.
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"We see enormous growth potential in India. Progress so far has been amazing," said Brenda Musilli, Director of Education, Intel Corporation.
Addressing a press conference in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA), in conjunction with the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which recently, she said the Intel training programmes in some 50 countries throughout the world.
How the director of education for the World Intel Corporation and chairman of the Intel Foundation, Ms. Musilli takes its role outside of compliance with commitments made as part of its "Corporate Social Responsibility". With more than two decades of experience at Intel, Intel conducts the
India is very interested in further talks with Pakistan on the 1650-km-long proposed gas pipeline from Iran but with no preconditions, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Tuesday.
"We have two points in Pakistan, an appointment for further discussion. We were invited to examine, with no obligation," IANS quoting Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, as I said, on the edge a meeting organized by the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management.
"We worked with them on the possibilities of diesel exports from India," said the minister.
The question of whether imports of diesel fuel India has been a precondition for participation in the
A Course in MBA in Energy Management might start at the Energy Research Centre, Panjab University, from next year. At present the feasibility of the course is being worked out.
Honorary Director of the centre Dr V K Rattan says that there are a number of other projects in the pipeline as well. The centre in collaboration with KTH, Sweden, and IIT have submitted a project to produce fuel cells. This involves the process of hydrogenation (separating hydrogen and oxygen using solar energy). The hydrogen obtained would be used as fuel. Dr Rattan says that this could be helpful in
Hong Kong team wins WFU elevator competition
Students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology took top honors in Wake Forest University's annual MBA Elevator Competition for their plan for a device that distinguishes between acute bacterial or viral infections.
The Hong Kong team is the first international competitor to enter the seven-year-old event, during which budding entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to judges in a two-minute elevator ride meant to simulate the need to be clear and concise when dealing with investors.
A team from Wake Forest University also made the finals with its pitch for AudioFusion, which
UW venture capitalist team wins national competition
It looks as if the University of Washington may have some budding venture capitalists walking the halls.
For the second time in the past three years, a team from the UWs MBA program won the national Venture Capital Investment Competition.
People are pretty excited around here today, considering who we beat, UW business school spokeswoman Nancy Gardner said.
Other schools that participated included MIT, Harvard and Michigan. The competition, hosted by the University of North Carolina allows students to emulate the job of venture capitalists. As part of the competition, the teams evaluate a pitch from
Lucknow, November 26: ADOPTED public outcry about the murder of Manjunath P - 27-year-old graduate of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) - The government has Lakhimpur Kheri Administration for the implementation of All raids regular gasoline pumps in the circle.
Manjunath, the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Area Sales Manager, Lakhimpur Kheri, was shot dead on the night of November 19, after having sealed a pump - Mittal Automobiles - Gola Gokarn area of the borough from the sale of adulterated fuel . Mittal monuments, the son of a merchant, says that abgedrückt. He and seven co-defendants have been arrested
Apart from the reduction of a country as regards the dependence on fossil fuels, renewable and biofuels do not contribute to global warming.
Crude Oil Prices have continually increased and rising tensions in West Asia, the supply of an important part of the world oil supply, has not helped. To make a contribution, oil-importing countries are worried about casting for alternatives to at least reduce their dependence on "black gold".
Ahead of them, the enviable example of Brazil. Brazilian cars - and even the appearance of small planes - were either to pure ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) or ethanol-gasoline blends.
For the first time, an energy audit is an outside agency to examine whether the 210 MW Thermal Power Plant Bandel must be renovated.
This quarter-century-old unit, perhaps the oldest in the country, production has been significantly less energy lost, as its cost-effectiveness.
For him again, the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM) has been invited to contribute to the achievement of an energy audit and suggest ways to minimize loss of generation.
A 10-member IISWBM team, under the leadership of its director Ashoke Dutta, implementation of the study. There will be a report from the West Bengal Power Development
Bharathidasan students at the Institute of Management, Tiruchi, participation in a social entrepreneurship in Seattle early next year.
THE Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), Tiruchi, won a scholarship to participate in the global society of competition Social Entrepreneurship (GSEC).
The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) of the University of Washington, the Global Business Centre, the Centre for Technology consequences of entrepreneurship, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs.
The event must take place between 22 and 25 February in Seattle, Washington. The winning team in Seattle received thousands of dollars in seed money for start-ups own.
The competition is scheduled
A two-week short-term training programme on emerging technologies in energy management with special emphasis on the recent advances in non-conventional energy sources began at the School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), here today.
The programme titled `Energy 2004' is being organised by the Electrical Engineering Division, CUSAT, for professionals and teachers of engineering colleges.
Inaugurating the programme, R.V.G. Menon, former director of ANERT, said that the availability of fossil fuel would decline in five to 10 years.
"Fossil fuel, that is petroleum, hardly known till 1900, has been exploited mercilessly in the last 100 years," he said.
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