Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association are accepting nominations for the inaugural Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, which recognizes and celebrates a scientific researcher who has successfully commercialized his or her discoveries through entrepreneurship. The researcher must have completed postdoctoral research in the United States at some point in his/her career.
Nominations for the award are open to scientific researchers who have completed postdoctoral research in the United States and have founded companies to commercialize their intellectual property. Nominees will be evaluated primarily on their technical innovation and the social value their enterprises have produced.
The researcher selected to win the Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award will receive a $10,000 honorarium. A second award, the Emerging Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award, will present a $2,500 honorarium to a promising postdoctoral entrepreneur. Both awards will be presented at the National Postdoctoral Association's 8th Annual Meeting on March 12-14, 2010, in Philadelphia.
Nomination forms are available on the National Postdoctoral Association's Web site.
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/outstanding-award