I-Cube is a private initiative established to promote technological innovation and entrepreneurship within the Romanian university community.

Advisory Group:
Boston:
Dan Dimancescu - BEH llc
Manuel Costescu - McKinsey
Mircea Gheorghiu - MIT Chemistry Department
Val Livada - Weybridge Group
George Stefan - Connex Technologies & Polytechnic Univ Bucharest
Anton Teodorescu – IBM
Dinu Teofilovici - Oracle
San Francisco:
Dana Beldiman - Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP
Bucharest:
Adrian Amariei - Axonite
Mihai Constantinescu - Luwig Institute (Belgium)
Serban Petrescu - Neuron & Polytechnic Univ of Bucharest

I-Cube is working in partnership with oricum (Romania), a student-founded magazine, to promote participation in the First Annual Innovation Competition - Romania (2006).

FIRST ANNUAL INNOVATION COMPETITION – ROMANIA 2006
Summary Overview:

1. The competition is student initiated and coordinated by the I-Cube Association, Ioana Ceausu (President)

2. Competition is open to any enrolled university student(s) either as an individual or as a team.

3. The competition rules are prepared by the US Advisory Group with advice to be solicited from $50K Competition (MIT see: www.mit50k.net/index.php) and the MIT Enterprise Forum (see enterpriseforum.mit.edu/)

4. The finals will be held in Bucharest on September18-19/2006 in front of a panel of 3-5 professionals judges in technology and investment. A pre-finals training workshop was held in Bucharest on August 9, 2006.

5. The winner(s) will be invited (one individual from each winning idea) to the United States to present his/her ideas to professional investors and technologists in Boston and San Francisco

6. In the event of outside investor interest, the investment must take place in Romania

Inquiries:

Romanian: [email protected]

English: [email protected]