The 2023 Edward K. Aldag Jr. Student Business Plan Competition
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What’s At Stake
Grand Prize: $50,000
1st Prize
$5,0002nd Prize
$3,0003rd Prize
$2,000Established Concept Prize(s)
Prize 1: $5,000Prize 2: $3,000
Prize 3: $2,000
New Business Idea Prize 1
Prize 1: $2,500Prize 2: $1,500
Prize 3: $1,000
New Business Idea Prize 2
Prize 1: $2,500Prize 2: $1,500
Prize 3: $1,000
Best Teamwork
$500Best New Idea
$500Crowd Favorite
$500Social Entrepreneurship
$500Alabama Power Foundation Innovation Technology Awards
This year a series of special awards are made possible by the Alabama Power Foundation. The Alabama Power Foundation Innovative Technology Awards for students offer three cash prizes totaling $10,000 ($5,000 first prize, $3,000 second prize, and $2,000 third prize) for the most groundbreaking technology-focused idea.
First Prize
$5,000Second Prize
$3,000Third Prize
$2,000Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative NEW Patient Safety Tech Award
The Patient Safety Tech Award of $5,000 sponsored by Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative challenges students to develop ideas for a technology-enabled solution to address a leading patient safety problem anywhere along the continuum of care with a focus on one or more of the following five problem categories: medications, procedural/surgical, patient care, infections, and diagnostic safety.
Additional awards for all winners
Co-Working Space
One year of free co-working space at The EDGEFree Consulting
Business, accounting, and law partners’ consulting
Entrepreneurship Academy
Ability to apply to the Summer 2022 Crimson Entrepreneurship AcademyQuestions?
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Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D.
Executive Director of AEI & Will and Maggie Brooke Professor in Entrepreneurship