In this issue of Innovation
we are going to look at how the Lester Center has truly
extended its mission to encourage entrepreneurship and
innovation beyond the Haas School, not just across campus,
but around the world.
A major facet of this increased
global outreach is the Intel Technology Entrepreneurship
Education Initiative. Developed and implemented
over the last year by the Lester Center in collaboration
with the Intel Corporation, the initiative has two key
thrusts: first a “train the trainer” program,
Technology Entrepreneurship Education: Theory to Practice,
where key Haas School entrepreneurship faculty share the
Haas approach to entrepreneurship education with leading
technology faculty around the world. Second is the Intel+Berkeley
Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge [IBTEC], a business
plan competition with global reach that forms a “virtual
laboratory’ for entrepreneurial experimentation
in technology commercialization.
Then we’ll look a little
closer to home: at the program partnering with UC San
Francisco to bring new internship opportunities to our
students and at technology commercialization made possible
by the interactions within UC fostered by our UC Berkeley
Business Plan Competition. Finally, a glance at the first
listing in our "Future Events" spotlights the
continuing ability of the Lester Center and the Haas School
to bring world-class speakers to campus.
When Intel Corporation decided
it wanted to accelerate the rate of innovation and economic
growth in key markets around the world, they knew they
were undertaking a significant challenge. ...
While the education component of the Intel-Berkeley
partnership carries the subtitle “Theory to Practice,
it is in the Intel+Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship
Challenge that the focus is truly on “Practice”.
...
SKS Microfinance Pvt. Ltd.
and its founder, Vikram Akula, finalists in the 2002 National
Social Venture Competition (now the Global Social Venture
Competition – GSVC), have recently been recognized
. . .
The Lester Center is pleased
to announce the recipients of the first BioEntrepreneurship
Fellowships, a new program initiated in partnership
with the UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship, the Haas
MBA student BioBusiness Association and Three Arch Partners.
Andrew McCraith graduated
from the full-time MBA program in 2005. Today he is already
the CEO of a venture-funded start-up based on UC Berkeley
breakthrough technology.
June 23:
August 28:
September 25: UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum - DIFFERENT
NIGHT
Octotober 26: UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum presents
the 2nd Annual Intel-Berkeley Technology Challenge
