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For OU graduate student Amanda Curtis, the 2016 BIO show required some unique multi-tasking skills. Curtis greeted visitors to the Oklahoma exhibition booth, participated in Oklahoma Bioscience networking events and sat in on multiple partnering meetings with her colleagues from OU’s Office of Technology Development. All in a day’s work.

2016 Governor’s Cup finalists and presentation times

Three OSU teams make Governor’s Cup finals By Ariel West © 2016 – Spears School of Business @ Oklahoma State University The School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University has three teams in the High Growth division finals of Innovation to Enterprise’s statewide Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Competition. The OSU finalists are: Haley KurtzRead more

More information about the 2016 graduate high growth finalists.

More information about the 2016 undergraduate high growth semifinalists

Since we introduced the Donald W. Reynold’s Governor’s Cup collegiate business plan competition 12 years ago, more than 1,700 college students have taken the Gov Cup challenge. This year, 55 teams entered business plans. This competition involves college students across the state, with divisions for two-year and regional colleges, for research universities, and for graduate students.

The Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup is inclusive — open to students from any college campus across the state, with 32 campuses sending teams over the years.

The entrepreneurs of East Central University dominated the small business plan category of the 2015 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup competition with first-, second- and third-place awards.

Steve Davis was featured in the current OVF newsletter, and had some kind words to say about the excitement he’s seen in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup.

Team Owlpal Healthcare from the University of Tulsa won first place in the Undergraduate Division at the 2014 Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State competition in Las Vegas.

The Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup collegiate business plan competition teaches students what it’s really like to take an innovative idea and build a business plan.

The most difficult aspect of helping develop a winning business plan is to step back and let it fail, said assistant business professor Amber Hefner at Oklahoma State University.

Some top business plans helped propel teams from the University of Tulsa to first place in a couple of divisions in the 10th annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup competition for Oklahoma college students.

For the second consecutive year, a team from OSU-OKC won the Small Business Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup, while University of Tulsa teams also swept first place in both High Growth Division categories.

Concepts proposing an innovative putter for golfers, an alarm for parents of children suffering from asthma and a mammoth shooting sports range all were recognized as top business plans the annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup.

Oklahoma college students showed their entrepreneurial skills in the 2014 Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition with nearly 50 teams submitting exciting new concepts across a wide range of industries.

Blake Trippet had a very good year in 2010. Then a senior at the University of Oklahoma, Trippet was team leader for team UniPhi, which won the Undergraduate Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition.

Aravind Seshadri, founder and CEO of Roll-2-Roll Technologies, came to Oklahoma from India to earn his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at Oklahoma State University.

Check out our Facebook photo album to relive the memories of Oklahoma’s awesome performance in last week’s Tri-State business plan competition.

A group of OU students swept the competition in an undergraduate collegiate business pitch competition in Las Vegas this week.