By Mark Chael —

The National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators
Alliance (NCIIA) co-produces the Invention to Venture (I2V)
Workshop in association with various universities across the country throughout
the year.  Upcoming I2V Workshops in
February and March will be held at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Valparaiso University, the University of Portland, Cornell
University, and the University of Texas – El Paso.

According to the NCIIA, I2V Workshops are an introduction
to the process and practice of technology entrepreneurship.  The workshops are geared toward businesses
seeking to identify new technology opportunities, business people seeking
connections with university faculty and students, investors seeking high growth
potential companies, members of university communities who are
entrepreneurially ambitious, as well as faculty and students interested in
technology entrepreneurship and how to commercialize research.  A full schedule of upcoming workshops with
links to additional information is available here.