June 5th, 2009

The 2009 Big Bang! Business Plan Competition winners, Ultra-V, were featured in the Sacramento Bee.

Big Bang winners at UC Davis bank on water-cleanup method

There has to be a better way.

Scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and dreamers of all kinds ponder those words constantly. But those who find a better way soon learn that it's not worth much without a plan to sell it.

That marriage of innovative product and marketing is at the heart of the Big Bang, the annual business-plan competition at the University of California, Davis. A $15,000 prize goes to the team whose proposal is judged most likely to succeed.

This year, the Big Bang first prize was awarded in May to a three-person team of UC Davis engineering and business graduate students. They call their project UltraV, a system to disinfect water with pulsing ultraviolet light instead of toxic chlorine.  Read full article >>