Unleash your creativity at the Smart Start Innovation Fair When: Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 11:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Where: The Accelerator Centre in the University of Waterloo Research + Technology Park 295 Hagey Blvd., Waterloo, ON N2L 6R5 The Fair - An Overview The Smart Start Innovation Fair is here to reward inventors and innovators for their creativity, to help bring their dreams closer to reality and to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in Ontario and Canada . A one day event, the fair is about creating opportunities for professors to collaborate with entrepreneurship students to commercialize inventions and ideas in a structured and supportive manner. It will start with poster presentations where professors and students meet and form teams, followed by an elevator pitch competition. Over the next year, winning teams will work through the MEEI and MBET programs to create businesses that will take the IP to market. $50,000 of prize money will be given out to inventors who are faculty at a university or college, who work with entrepreneurship students that they meet at the fair. Participants will be rewarded for the commercial viability of their technologies. Over the course of the following year, participants will develop business plans around those technologies in preparation to take those technologies to market. Spaces are limited, so make sure to register early. Faculty and professors are encouraged to register online before October 1, 2007.