ELIGIBILITY


Participant Criteria

1.		Senior students from undergraduate, graduate, polytechnics, and vocational institutions or Recent graduates
2.		Create at least 3 member team, not to exceed 5 members
3.		Participants can be from any discipline
4.		Non-students may be members of the team. Non-student members can be brought in for specific expertise.

Eligibility

•		There is no fee for entry.
•		Submissions may be entered by teams of 3-5 members
•		At least half of the team members must be currently registered university students and have valid ID. Other members could be non-student brought in for specific expertise.
•		At least one member of the team must be present at the workshop session and all of the members have to be present on the day of finale. Failure for at least one member of a team to show up at work shop result to disqualification.
•		The Judging Panel reserves the right to disqualify any entry.
•		In no way the members would reveal the identity of the university that they belong to and throughout the Contest the code given to all via sms ought to be used either at header or footer.
•		Note the contest structure and basis for selection section above to focus on the success criteria.

Eligibility Details
Teams are encouraged to seek the involvement of one university faculty, alumni, post-docs, researchers, staff, students from other schools, and people from outside the student community as mentor

By submitting a business plan, you represent and warrant to the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 that you have all right, title and/or interest in the business plan submitted and the information it contains is accurate and complete, and that by submitting the document to the contest, you are not and will not be violating any contract or third party rights including any patent, copyright, trade secret, proprietary or confidential information, trademark, publicity or privacy right. The Judging Panel of the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 reserves the right to disqualify any entry that in its judgment violates the letter or the spirit of the Contest guidelines, processes and rules of the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011. The decisions of the Judging Panel are final and binding.

Confidentiality
Access to submitted executive summaries is only granted by the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee to the members of its judging panel. The SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee, the IT team, and the Judging team members are the only other individuals who may be provided with the submitted executive summaries by the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011. Reasonable steps are taken to limit access to the submitted executive summaries (collectively referred to as “summaries”).

If some part of the entered Executive Summary is confidential, contestants will need to clearly mark that information as “CONFIDENTIAL,” and the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee will retain that legend in any copy of the summary provided to the members of the judging panel. However, even if contestants mark their information as confidential, there will be no confidentiality obligation by any recipient of the summary for information which: (a) is publicly available prior to the time of its disclosure to the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 or becomes publicly available thereafter through no wrongful act of the recipient, or (b) was known to the recipient prior to the date of disclosure or becomes known to the recipient thereafter from a third party having an apparent bona fide right to disclose the information, or (c) is disclosed by recipient in accordance with your approval, or (d) is disclosed by you or any member of your team without restriction on further disclosure, or (e) is independently developed by a recipient; or (f) the recipient is obligated to disclose to comply with applicable laws or regulations, or with a court or administrative order.

The identities of the contestants and the short description of the business disclosed in the registration, as well as any pitch delivered during any SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 event are considered of public domain and can be used by the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee for marketing and PR purposes.

Intellectual property
Before submitting entries, the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee urges contestants to confirm with appropriate advisors or legal counsel that any intellectual property described in their summary is protected; i.e., by appropriate intellectual property filings, notices, (patent, copyright, etc) by the owning institution and/or individuals.

For any doubt about the legal status of contestants’ own or third party intellectual property or any other aspect of their plan, the SpaandanB Entrepreneurship Contest 2011 Organizing Committee advices to seek independent legal counsel.