General Information: How to Get Involved --

Almost anyone with a serious interest in technology or entrepreneurship can find a way to join the excitement of the VT KnowledgeWorks program.

VT Faculty Entrepreneurs can start companies with personalized assistance and a highly structured safety net.

Inventors can learn how to harness their creativity to address exciting market opportunities.

Researchers can translate long hours of lab work into profitable businesses.

Experienced business builders can be matched with developers of advanced technologies to form uniquely powerful and complementary partnerships.

Investors can get early exposure to fresh business concepts.

Successful senior managers can leverage their experience as KnowledgeWorks Shadow CEOs, long-term personal mentors to Member executives.

Business and legal professionals from all disciplines can volunteer, one year at a time, to serve one Member company as a member of an informal advisory committee, sometimes called a “kitchen cabinet”.

Professional service providers and commercial/industrial corporations can sponsor various aspects of the VT KnowledgeWorks program and receive both public recognition and preferential introductions to emerging companies and bright, energetic VT students.

Contact Jim Flowers for details on how to get involved.