CIT Innovation Week
March 7th -11th 2011
5 Steps to Becoming an Entrepreneur
This year marks the 9th anniversary of the highly successful CIT Prize for Innovation Competition sponsored by the Cork County and City Enterprise Boards. The competition for CIT students has always been a two day event featuring an exhibition of innovation and enterprise at both second level and third level. This year, to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship, CIT will host a week-long series of events across its five campus locations, including Blackrock Castle Observatory. The week (March 7th -11th inclusive) will celebrate and showcase innovation and entrepreneurial activity across CIT.
The week will include events highlighting the entrepreneurship and innovation supports available to industry, through CIT’s specialist industry Centres and the Rubicon Centre. During the week, there will be an opportunity for companies to visit CIT and learn how companies in the region use CIT as their innovation partner of choice. Companies can attend a mentor drop-in clinic, which is free of charge, and CIT will host guest speakers on the subjects of entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Date / Time |
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Monday: 7th March 2011 |
Idea Generation / Creativity |
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1.00pm - 2.00pm |
Launch of Innovation Week - incorporating debate: "Entrepreneur: Born or Bred?" |
IT3, CIT |
Debate |
Open Event and no booking required |
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2.00pm - 3.00pm |
Speed Idea Generation |
James Barry Exhibition Centre, CIT |
Competition |
Closed Event |
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3.00pm - 4.00pm |
"Is it nuts to even think of starting a new business in a recesssion?" by Yanky Fachler, author of "Fire in the Belly." |
James Barry Exhibition Centre, CIT |
Seminar |
Open Event and no booking required |
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Tuesday: 8th March 2011 |
Business Planning |
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9am - 2.30pm |
Cork County and City Enterprise Boards CIT Prize for Innovation |
Nexus, CIT |
Competition |
Closed Event |
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9am - 2.30pm |
Nexus, CIT |
Competition |
Closed Event |
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9.00am - 11.00am |
Lab C172, CIT |
Competition |
Closed Event |
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3.00 - 4.30pm |
Business Planning in a Box by Paul Healy & Joe Kelleher |
Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus |
Seminar |
Open Event and no booking required |
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Wednesday: 9th March 2011 |
Sales & Marketing |
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10.00am-12.30pm |
How to Make your Business Famous with Jack Murray of Mediacontact.ie |
Rubicon Centre |
Workshop |
Closed Event |
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2.00pm-5.00pm |
How Irish Business can leverage New and Social Media. Speakers include Jack Murray, Mediacontact.ie, Damien Mulley, Mulley Communications & Stephen Ryan, Fota Wildlife Park. |
T101, Tourism and Hospitality Studies Building, CIT |
Seminar |
Open Event and no booking required |
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5.00pm-6.00pm |
Networking |
Tourism and Hospitality Studies Building, CIT |
Networking |
Open Event and no booking required |
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Thursday: 10th March 2011 |
Product Development / R&D |
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2.00pm-5.00pm |
Enterprise Ireland Mentor Drop-In day |
Nexus, CIT |
Business Mentoring |
Open Event - booking essential through www.rubiconcentre.ie |
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3.00pm-5.00pm |
Industry Showcase: R&D support availabile to companies |
Nexus, CIT |
Presentation & Exhibition |
Open Event and no booking required |
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3.00pm-5.00pm |
Exhibit of Rubicon Companies |
Nexus, CIT |
Exhibition |
Open Event and no booking required |
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3.00pm-5.00pm |
Post Graduate Showcase |
Nexus, CIT |
Exhibition and Competition |
Open Event and no booking required |
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3.00pm-5.00pm |
Inform, Inspire: Entrepreneurship and Education Projects by students of Visual Communications (BA Honours) |
Nexus, CIT |
Exhibition |
Open Event and no booking required |
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5.30pm |
Kieran Moynihan, CIT Entrepreneur in Residence, in partnership with Cork Chamber of Commerce |
Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus |
Networking |
Open Event and no booking required |
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Friday: 11th March 2011 |
Funding |
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9.30am-11.00am |
Financing your Business: Public and Private options |
Foyer, Rubicon Centre |
Information Session |
Open Event and no booking required |
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11.00am-12.00 noon |
Pitching Competition (90 seconds to pitch your business idea) |
Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus |
Competition |
Open Event and no booking required |
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10.30am-1.00pm |
Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus |
Networking |
Open Event and no booking required |
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Every half hour from 3:30–5:30pm. Demo Rocket launches will be run every half hour while the workshops are running. |
Build and launch your own Rocket into the Solar System |
CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory, Castle Road, Blackrock |
Suitable for children 6 upwards |
Primary School, no booking required |
