The Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge (SVIC) is an annual forum designed to promote creativity and entrepreneurship by generating and showcasing innovative business Ideas. The event welcomes students, alumni, faculty and staff from all departments and majors across San Jose State University (SJSU) and from our partner universities and colleges.The SVIC mission is to cultivate entrepreneurs and h
elp their innovative business ideas prosper into a reality. Innovation represents the promise of possibilities. Creativity, fresh points of view, and openness to change are the essence of innovation. Entrepreneurship is a part of innovation that extends the innovation toward establishment of an enterprise or other sustainable use.The SVIC encourages the generation of innovative, ground-breaking or novel ideas, products, services and technologies that could potentially become the seed of a new venture. All ideas remain the intellectual property of the participant. The SVIC competition has two parts. First is the virtual portion where students submit their innovative ideas to the SVIC online community and receive feedback from judges, professors, peers and industry professionals. The participants have the opportunity to interact and collaborate with all the members of the online SVIC community.Judges then evaluate all of the ideas, narrowing the final showcase to a set of finalists. These finalists are then invited to display their innovative ideas at the SVIC Final Showcase poster session at SJSU.
