E-Weekends

• Team building and familiarization
  • Introductions
  • Facilities tours
  • Scavenger hunt
  • Graduate seminar
  • Formation of teams
• Bioethics
  • Business ethics
  • Science ethics (lecture and exercises)

E-Weekend Two
(Oct 8-9, 2004) The University of Southern Mississippi

• Team building
  • Challenge Country Ropes Course
• Performance skills training
  • "Showing Them What You've Got: A Positive Approach to Presentation"
  • Student group presentations
• Faculty research presentations (Dr. James Rawlins, Southern Miss)
• Graduate seminar (USM student research presentation)

E-Weekend Three
(Nov 4-6, 2004) The University of Mississippi

• International Immersion: France
  • Seminar on European entrepreneurial training featuring Andrew Roberts from E.M. Lyon
• Faculty research presentations (Dr. Robert Storey, Southern Miss and Dr. Robert Doerkson, Ole Miss)
• Seminar: 2004 Bayer Distinguished Lectureship featuring Dr. Paula Hammond, MIT. "Controlled Construction of Thin Film Nano-assemblies: New Explorations of Polymer Multilayer Coatings" via Access Grid Node
• Facilities tours of new labs in Faser Hall and the Natural Products Center
• Performance skills training
  • Student group presentations
• Entrepreneurs
• Value chains
• Technology platforms
• Markets

E-Weekend Four
(Jan 28-29, 2005) The University of Southern Mississippi

• Building polymer/medicinal chemistry based businesses
  • Value chain analysis 1
  • Business Basics
  • Reasons for building a business
  • Building the business in a university setting
  • Student team business plan presentations
  • IP ownership
• Graduate seminar (USM student research presentation)
• International Immersion: China
  • Planning and preparation for May 2005 visit