All Hands on Deck!! NYC Startup Job Fair Finally in Sight for University Entrepreneurs

This is part of my Series on University Entrepreneurship.

I've written here about the magnificent tidal wave of university entrepreneurship I see cresting in this country. But those of us in NYC will have the distinct pleasure of watching it converge with red hot Silicon Alley's own wave in the form of the much awaited and upcoming NYC Startup Job Fair. It is to be held at AOL's NY headquarters on April 9 from 1-4pm. Big time congrats to the organizers for pulling this off!

So if you are a student or recent graduate of a NYC university trying to break into the world of start-ups, or if you are a start-up looking for some talented and enthusiastic university students, you should definitely register for this event ASAP as space is limited.

Sign-up here:

NYC Startup Job Fair
Where: AOL HQ (770 Broadway)
When: Friday, April 9th 2010
What Time: 1:00PM – 4:00PM

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New York City’s Academic Institutions: A Stunning Engine of Innovation

Many of us who have the distinct pleasure to live and work in New York’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and/or Silicon Alley have no inkling of the staggering role its local academic institutions play in the realm of innovation, licensing, and start-up formation. I can tell you that until approximately six years ago I had no idea of the sheer scale of it all.  It  is certainly true that the majority of this output is in the realm of health sciences/biotech, but much is being done to stimulate entrepreneurship from engineering, computer science departments, the undergraduate ranks and the business schools.  (More on this in subsequent posts).

Just look at these hard numbers:

Annual Research Funds:                                       $1872 million

Annual  Inventions:                                                 643

Annual New Licenses and Options:                      193

Total Active Revenue Generating Agreements: 566

Annual Gross Licensing Revenue:                       $509 million

Annual Number of Start-up Companies:             20

Number of Start-up Companies to Date:             188

Source: New York Academic Consortium (NYAC)

For Part Twenty in in this Series, click here