academic industry partnerships
CITRIS Foundry Hosts Demo Day
This week the CITRIS Foundry, SCET’s entrepreneurship partner and the UC system’s accelerator for founders building transformative technology companies, held its biannual Demo Day, where its Spring 2016 cohort pitched their business ventures and displayed progress they had made over the past year. The Spring 2016 Cohort represented the sixth batch of startups to participate…
Ikhlaq Sidhu hosts workshop to help universities accelerate innovation through industry collaboration
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s faculty director and founder, Dr. Ikhlaq Sihdu, recently hosted a workshop at Hamid bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar to explore how university scientists and researchers can spur innovation through industry collaboration. Ikhlaq delivered a talk titled “Accelerating Innovation at Universities and Partnering with Industry.” By connecting academic research…