QD Tech Wins UMass Amherst Innovation Challenge, Receives $35,000 Grand Prize for Plan To Improve Solar Cell Output
05/07/2009
QD Tech has won the $35,000 grand prize in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Innovation Challenge Final Business Plan Competition. The winning team plans to produce quantum-dot‐based materials designed to improve solar cells.
The Innovation Challenge is a competition for the best innovation-driven business plan produced by students, recent alumni and faculty advisors at UMass Amherst. The program, which includes a preliminary elevator pitch contest, as well as mentoring and educational events throughout the year, culminated in the investor presentations by four finalists this week.
