Invention to Venture Workshop

Saturday, December 1, 2012, 8am - 4:15pm

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The Invention to Venture Workshop teaches technology entrepreneurship basics, helps build networks, and provides a framework for moving ideas forward. It brings students, faculty, experienced entrepreneurs and innovators together, creating an exciting and motivating atmosphere. Cooper's first I2V will be held on Saturday, December 1st in the Rose Auditorium. 

Invention to Venture workshops are directed at:
  • Students/faculty interested technology entrepreneurship and how to commercialize research
  • Members of the university community who are entrepreneurially ambitious
  • Business people seeking connections with university students and faculty
  • Investors seeking high growth potential companies
  • Businesses seeking to identify new technology opportunities

To register please visit i2v.cooper.edu.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.