SCET Alt:Meat Lab Director Co-Authors Chapter in ‘Design Thinking for Food Well-Being’ with Two Other UC Berkeley Professors and Launches New ‘Design of Affordable Plant-Based Foods‘ Class One of the latest books on food design thinking to hit the shelves, ‘Design Thinking for Food Well-Being‘ features several UC Berkeley professors as contributors, including Ricardo San…
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“We launched a free app in the app store and 2 weeks later we get this call… ‘Heeeey it’s Steve, whatcha doin’? Wanna come over to my house tomorrow?’” Adam Cheyer on how Apple acquired Siri Adam Cheyer is the creator of Siri, Bixby, Viv Labs, Change.org, and Sentient. Billions of people have used his…
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Ads and subscriptions are the winning business models for B2C content. But a third model is emerging which may spark an internet revolution. Model 1: Try it free Netflix, Spotify, Hulu, Twitch, Crunchyroll, HBOMax, New York Times, Wired, Apple Music, Disney+, MasterClass, Prime Video. What do you think of? Say it on three. One, two,…
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Impact Food has just won the Hult Prize! The UC Berkley plant-based seafood startup team, who got their start at the Alt Meat Lab out of the SCET, managed to come out on top at the esteemed Hult Prize competition, an annual, year-long competition that crowd-sources ideas from MBA and college students after challenging them…
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In 1999, Dave Gilboa was doing research in Robert Full’s integrative biology lab on the movement of cockroaches, spending hundreds of hours working with freezing cockroaches, putting iridescent paint on their legs, placing them on a cockroach treadmill, then applying their patterns of movement to the field of robotics. This even led to CRAM: a…
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Software represents the futuristic path, an avenue leading us rapidly towards the merge. Meanwhile manufacturing feels like a dying space, at least in the United States. And the data reflect that. Source: United States Bureau of Economic Analysis But just because manufacturing’s share of GDP has been decreasing does not mean it must continue that…
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SCET’s flagship pitch competition will return in a rapid fire virtual format on December 11 as Collider Cup VII, featuring pitches from this semester’s top student venture teams. Get ready for the Collider Cup, UC Berkeley’s premier technology entrepreneurship pitch event, hosted by the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). Collider Cup VII is…
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Will remote work continue to be the standard after the global pandemic recedes? Is this a fundamental shift we are seeing or a temporary one? What will change permanently going forward? The hard part is identifying people who are actually qualified to answer these questions. Fortunately, we at the SCET did exactly that. Last week,…
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UC Berkeley has once again ranked #2 in the world for undergraduate entrepreneurship, maintaining its position for producing the second-highest number of undergraduate founders who go on to obtain venture funding. After Berkeley (1365), MIT (1125), Harvard (1100), University of Pennsylvania (1,021), and Cornell (888) round up the top 6 universities in the world by…
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Until now, sports games were simply cancelled if no live audience could be there. Without the shouting, cheering, chanting, and hype generated by an audience, games can feel empty & emotionless. Due to the pandemic, massive sports franchises like the NBA have had to innovate new ways to maintain audience engagement and simulate traditional playing…
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