Join us for the Border Innovation Challenge!

Join us on May 22nd for the first Border Innovation Challenge, a business plan competition awarding $20,000 to promising solutions and technologies that meet the efficiency and security needs of the region’s ports of entry. Supported by the San Diego-Tijuana Smart Border Coalition, the program is presented through a partnership of the Rady School of Management and the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

Invention Science Fund (ISF), the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego's Legler Benbough Foundation will contribute $1 million in combined sponsorship funds to the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) a the University of California San Diego to help accelerate new startup companies.  

In photo: Dennis Abremski, (Executive Director of IGE), Conrad Burke (VP of New Ventures at ISF) and Albert P. Pisano (dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering.