Last week the winners of the Idea to Product Global Competition - organized by the Center for Entrepreneurship and New Business (GVcenn) of São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV/EAESP), in partnership with the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) were announced.  This is the 11th edition of the event, which happened for the first time in Latin America.

Created by the Research Department of the University of Austin, the Product Global Competition aims to fill the gap between universities and the competitions of business plans, and a possible commercialization of the innovation generated by the research.  The groups of students had to present their products and services based on new technologies during the three days of the event, showing their new features, usability, easiness to implement the project, its degree of innovation, and their market potential.

This year, ten initiatives throughout the world were awarded, in three parallel championships: Information and Communication Technology, Energy and Life Sciences.

The 2013 Product Global Competition took place on November 7th -9th at EAESP.

Please click here and check out this year's winners.