The Association for Laboratory Automation is inviting start-up companies to submit applications for its fifth annual Innovation Avenew programme at Lab Automation 2011.
The mission for Innovation Avenew is to offer start-up, entrepreneurial companies operating within the laboratory automation and technology field a venue for positive, collaborative interaction and exposure for their products and/or service concepts.
Innovation Avenew will be located in a designated area on the Lab Automation 2011 exhibit floor.
Candidate companies must align, in some fashion, with the laboratory automation and technologies field, and must submit their applications by 26 October 2010.
The selection panel will evaluate applications for technical merit and commercial feasibility, as well as other criteria, such as: compelling science and technology; clarity of vision and market opportunity (business plan); strength of management team; impact on the field of laboratory automation and technology; and start-up status.
The Innovation Avenew programme serves to afford emerging companies the opportunity to actively engage and participate in this event by providing free exhibit space, travel and accommodation to participants.
The programme helps those companies participating to grow and scale their business, and directly connects them with more than 4,000 purchasing influencers and decision makers from more than 40 countries.
All applications will be reviewed by a panel of experts in laboratory automation and technologies.
Lab Automation 2011 will take place on 29 January to 2 February in Palm Springs, California, US.
