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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in November.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of [http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span>
</div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/abouthttp://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div>== BME Advanced Design == <u></u>BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!</div></div></div>
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =