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Words of Inspiration

"There are no secrets to success, only trying hard. There are no quick solutions, only those that stimulate the thinking and create a fervor to be solved by the curious. It is our hope to simply plant the seed that says,
'You can...'"

— Carson Chen,
Managing Partner & Chairman

"Innovation Quest is young leaders expanding their view of what's possible, answering the question, 'Why not you?' — and then creating teams and products that evolve into businesses and jobs. Innovation Quest taps into the creative, competitive spirit that has always been woven into the dreams that make this country great."

— Tom Kelly,
Managing Partner

"Innovation Quest is all about the students. Enabling young people through private support, to innovate and create companies, is the heart of America."

— Keith Fox,
Managing Partner

"Innovation! It's exciting. It's captivating. Innovation can propel ventures like nothing else. Successful ventures create a powerful opportunity to give back — to give back to society and to give back to the university. Consider: Innovation's noble quest is to give back."

— Rich Boberg,
Managing Partner

"I'm continually amazed at how smart, clever and thorough each of the university projects are."

— Laura Pickering,
Managing Partner

"Whatever your idea, stick with it. I've seen entrepreneurs get turned down time and again. But, they never gave up, they continued in pursuit and were ultimately rewarded with success."

— Bob Barron,
Advisory Board

"The ability to innovate is not innate, it is an attitude, a state of mind. The mission of the Innovation Quest is to nurture the insightfulness of creativity, with a mindfulness toward giving back. Only in this way, we create and perpetuate opportunities for a caring tomorrow."

— Carson Chen,
Managing Partner & Chairman

"From concept to realizing a commercial product is a disciplined form of chaotic creativity. It is the nature of break throughs and profound market trends."

— Carson Chen,
Managing Partner & Chairman

"...Learn by doing...Give back by creating..."

— Carson Chen,
Managing Partner & Chairman

"The greatest gift one can bestow upon another is not the way of success but the opportunity, the doing, the creating and success's living journey. Even greater is the gift of giving back, one of philanthropy, for the benefit of the opportunity for our younger generation to innovate in perpetuity."

— Carson Chen,
Managing Partner & Chairman

"As a country with many adversaries we are constantly challenged with new threats and many of them can mean the difference between life and death, winning or loosing and dealing with the consequences of conflict. Innovation is on constant demand to take on such problems as detecting and neutralizing improvised explosive devices; the detection of terrorist threats; the detection of weapons of mass destruction; the protection of our SCADA systems and so forth. Our National Security is an important element to our future quality of life. There is a continuing need for new and innovative solutions to its many problems."

— Jon Monett,
CEO of Telemus

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What is the big deal?

It is an unprecedented opportunity and for students to have no-strings-attached, funding and assistance for all of those great ideas you've had in mind, but did not know what to do next, or whether they were even feasible...