Access to sub­mit­ted abstracts is granted only by the Accel­er­ate Michi­gan Inno­va­tion Com­pe­ti­tion to the mem­bers of its judg­ing pan­els and to Ann Arbor SPARK and its affil­i­ates as admin­is­tra­tors of the Competition.

Before sub­mit­ting your abstract, sub­mit­ting your exec­u­tive sum­mary or pre­sent­ing your busi­ness plan in the semi-final or final rounds of the {biz plan} we urge you to con­firm with appro­pri­ate advi­sors or legal coun­sel that any intel­lec­tual prop­erty described in your plan is appro­pri­ately protected.

All pub­lic ses­sions of the com­pe­ti­tion, includ­ing but not lim­ited to oral pre­sen­ta­tions and question/answer ses­sions, are open to the pub­lic at large. Any and all of these pub­lic ses­sions may be broad­cast to inter­ested per­sons through media which may include radio, tele­vi­sion and the Inter­net. Any data or infor­ma­tion dis­cussed or divulged in pub­lic ses­sions by entrants should be con­sid­ered infor­ma­tion that will likely enter the pub­lic realm, and entrants should not assume any right of con­fi­den­tial­ity in any data or infor­ma­tion dis­cussed, divulged or pre­sented in these sessions.

The authors of the busi­ness plan will retain all copy­rights to the plan regard­ing its use at all times prior to and fol­low­ing the com­pe­ti­tion except as stated below. Due to the nature of the com­pe­ti­tion, we will not ask judges, review­ers, staff or the audi­ence to agree to or sign non-disclosure state­ments for any participant.

The orga­nizer of the Accel­er­ate Michi­gan Inno­va­tion Com­pe­ti­tion may make pho­to­copies, pho­tographs, video­tapes and/or audio­tapes of the pre­sen­ta­tions includ­ing the busi­ness plan and other doc­u­ments, charts or mate­r­ial pre­pared for use in pre­sen­ta­tion. By enter­ing the com­pe­ti­tion, you will have agreed to grant a release to the orga­niz­ers, spon­sors and fund­ing sources of the com­pe­ti­tion to use such mate­ri­als with­out restriction.