Five of the ten awarded business ideas in Venture Cup Väst are being developed at Göteborg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS) and its sister education at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) together with Encubator. This year, 442 business ideas competed for a title in the Venture Cup - Business Idea Awards, and tonight the top ten submitted business ideas in western Sweden were acknowledged. Nine out of the 30 nominated business ideas are connected to CSE, GIBBS and Encubator as incubator projects or portfolio companies with five of those being winners tonight. The competition was a part of the first stage of the Venture Cup journey, which was focused on the business ideas. The next step is to present a business plan, which will be awarded at another awards ceremony in February 2010. But for now, we once again congratulate all our winners of Venture Cup Väst - Business ideas awards. The following GIBBS, CSE and Encubator projects and portfolio companies' business idea were awarded: Ideelic Minalyze Chameleon Dynamics Alginova >Herpes Vaccine Project

Students at GIBBS and CSE are applying their entrepreneurial skills and drive on a school project in Uganda. Read the article (in Swedish)

GIBBS-project Cereduce received two awards in the regional final.

The GIBBS-project "Cereduce", run by Björn Carlsson and Gustav Öhrn, has been nominated among the top 10 business plans in Venture Cup (West). The idea provider to the project is Gothia Yeast Solutions AB.

The Insert Africa project, managed by the students at GIBBS and CSE, has won the Student Excellence Award 2009.

The startup company Capeco AB has been featured in NyTeknik. Capeco was a GIBBS-project during 2007 and was incorporated during 2008.

The two GIBBS-projects "Cereduce" and "T-sort" have been awarded in the first step of Venture Cup - best business idea.

The inventors of Arterion's patented method of producing artificial blood vessels by using bacterial cellulose have been awarded with a SKAPA scholarship.

Gothenburg has been awarded the prize for "Best City for Entrepreneurship in Europe" according to the European Cities Entrepreneurship Ranking (ECER).

The inventors behind the company Arterion receives a scholarship for the production method of artificial blood vessels. http://www.chemicalnet.se/iuware.aspx?pageid=792&ssoid=82066