DDB Latina Puerto Rico shines in FIAP competition
May 4, 2015
Advertising agency DDB Latina Puerto Rico won a Golden Sun award, three Silver Sun awards and a Bronze Sun award in the most important creative competition of the Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking markets, the Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad, for works created for its clients Unilever of Puerto Rico and the Department of Justice.
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SBA launches competition for female-driven innovations
March 17, 2015
Addressing the needs of women and the role they play in America’s economy, the U.S. Small Business Administration has launched a nationwide competition for entrepreneurs who are developing products and services that will enhance the lives of women and their families.
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Guayacán, Entrepreneurs Organization launch challenge
February 9, 2015
Grupo Guayacán Inc. and Entrepreneurs Organization announced a partnership to support student entrepreneurs by hosting a local qualifying competition for EO’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, q global competition for student entrepreneurs who actively run a for-profit business, while attending a college or university.
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San Juan ‘Global Shapers’ hub wins Coca Cola challenge
February 5, 2015
A group of young leaders from San Juan were among the 2014 winners of The Coca-Cola Company’s “Shaping a Better Future Grant Challenge,” a competition exclusively for members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
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Plaza Las Américas, MasterCard launch biz competition
September 12, 2014
Looking to give the island’s economic activity a much-needed push through entrepreneurship, Plaza Las Américas is joining forces with MasterCard, the Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank, and the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company to launch the "Journey to Business Success" competition for business development.
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Small biz startups vie for 50 cash prizes from SBA
August 5, 2014
The U.S. Small Business Administration has received more than 800 applications from accelerators and incubators hoping to win one of 50 cash prizes of $50,000 each in the SBA’s first Growth Accelerator Fund competition.
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Crowley ships solar vehicle to U.S. student competition
July 15, 2014
Sixteen students from the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus will travel to Austin, Texas, for the 2014 American Solar Challenge, a competition that challenges teams of university students to design, build and race solar-powered vehicles.
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Puerto Rico nat’l culinary team ‘Best in Caribbean’
July 8, 2014
The Puerto Rico National Culinary Team was crowned once again "Best Culinary Team in the Caribbean" at the Taste of the Caribbean competition held at the Hyatt Regency in Miami.
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PRMA to host Quest 2014 best practices competition
June 11, 2014
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association announced Tuesday that it will host Quest 2014, a competition, a world-class continuous improvement competition on this Friday at the Polytechnic University in Hato Rey.
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30 start-ups compete for $100K in seed funding, support
May 21, 2014
Grupo Guayacán Inc. announced Tuesday the names of the 30 semifinalists that will compete for more than $100,000 through its EnterPRize competition, the largest business development competition in Puerto Rico that promotes the creation of companies and offers intense education to budding entrepreneurs who, more than developing an idea, seek to launch and grow successful companies.
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2 UPR-Mayagüez students to participate in IBM contest
March 26, 2014
Two information technology students from the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus will join a select group of competitors from 23 countries around the globe that will take part in the IBM Master the Mainframe World Championship a first-of-its-kind, premiere enterprise computing competition.
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‘Producibles’ design competition winners announced
March 25, 2014
The jury of “Producibles,” a product design competition managed by Design in Puerto Rico (DIPR), selected five proposals from four Puerto Rican designers to represent the island at the Wanted Design NYC international fair in May in New York City, Carlos Bobonis-Colorado, director of DIPR announced Monday.
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Puerto Rican teams headed to world robotics competition
March 25, 2014
A delegation comprising 27 teams of elementary, middle and high school students will be traveling to Anaheim, CA next month to represent Puerto Rico in the VEX Robotics World Championship 2014, the Puerto Rico Institute of Robotics announced.
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Grupo Guayacán kicks off business building competition
March 17, 2014
Grupo Guayacán, a nonprofit that seeks to couple private equity investment with a series of programs aimed at developing, strengthening, and advancing Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, announced over the weekend the start of its annual EnterPRize Business Building Competition.
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Puerto Rico must ‘unleash tourism potential’ to compete
December 10, 2013
Given world tourism trends, Puerto Rico needs to focus on new markets, such as Germany, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom, to find success in a highly competitive sector and lure tourists to its shores, to be able to reduce its reliance on other industries.
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