Archive for July 2016
Berkeley Engineering Welcomes 7 New Companies to Leadership Program
On August 11th, Berkeley Engineering and the Sutardja Center will kick off the Fall 2016 session of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program with our 9th cohort since the program’s inception in 2011. We are pleased to welcome back our past participating companies – Google, Cisco, SanDisk, VMware, Samsung, Qualcomm and Yahoo! – and greet candidates from firms…
Read MoreWhat’s Next: New Venture Portfolios
How Firms can manage New Ventures as Extensions of their Advanced Product Development New Ventures have Collectively Become Every Corporation’s Research Lab Ikhlaq Sidhu, UC Berkeley Evangelos Simoudis, Synapse Partners The World of Innovation Has Changed A great deal has changed in corporate innovation since the days of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC. …
Read MoreThe Seawater Battery – an Eco-Friendly Solution by Global Partners
In June, graduate students Woo-Seok Go and Jeong-Sun Park arrived in Berkeley with the Seawater Battery, a novel product designed to combat environmental problems and increasing electricity demands. Unlike a traditional battery, the Seawater battery produces charge through the flow of the sodium ions found in seawater and can additionally be used for water purification…
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