The Student Support is an initiative that provides recipients with access to 捆绑SM社区 students with various working and academic experiences. Recipients will have the opportunity to identify their needs, to interview potential candidates and to offer internship positions which will be partly subsidized by the MIF. This will allow recipients to go through the hiring process, to build their team and get additional support to move the business side of their projects forward.

MIF teams are headed by researchers who are transitioning their projects into full-fledged businesses. Because these are small projects/companies, interns may be asked to perform a variety of tasks such as:

• Market analysis, e.g., determining the scale of the opportunity, competition, etc.
• Developing and/or improving communications tools, e.g., presentations, websites, etc.
• Elaborating and/or refining the company鈥檚 business plan, creating a SWOT analysis, etc.
• Refining product prototypes
• Preparing marketing materials