Careernomics.com - Competition

Objective

Great Cleantech technologies emerging from research often flounder through lack of good commercial input early on. Meanwhile, management schools have many entrepreneurial students who are worried about the environment but who lack impactful ideas to work on. To bridge this gap, the interdisciplinary competition was created.

Description

What is the CleanTech Challenge?

The CleanTech Challenge is a global innovation and business plan competition, open to students, to recognise cleantech ideas that are:
- Innovative and outside of the box
- With business potential
- With a positive impact on the environment

Eligibility

We welcome applications from all students currently registered on any full time or part time degrees. This includes undergraduate, masters, MBA and PhD programs. Team members who are enrolled students in January 2024.

All team members must be aged 18 or over.

For the first stage of the competition (business idea submission), applicants do not need to have a team already formed. Ideas may be submitted by individuals, but only at this first stage.

For the second stage of the competition (full business plan submission), students must form teams of minimum 2 and maximum 5 people. Stage 2 teams must include at least one student whose business idea was successful in stage 1 of the competition.

While there are no academic background requirements, we encourage students to have a mix of business and technical skillsets within their teams.

Eligible Schools

Desautels Faculty Of Management - McGill University
ESADE
Harvard Business School
HEC Paris
INSEAD
Johnson - Cornell University
Northwestern University - Kellogg
POLIMI Graduate School of Management
SASTRA UNIVERSITY
SDA Bocconi School Of Management
Stanford Graduate School Of Business
Toronto - Rotman School Of Management
UC Berkeley - Haas School Of Business
University Of Calgary - The Haskayne School Of Business
University of Illinois at Chicago
University Of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
University Of Sydney
Yale Law School

Date

April 17, 2025

Deadline

January 17, 2025

Participation

Public