innovation
What is your data project missing? Here are three must-have elements
The other day I was having a discussion with Inder Sidhu, who was speaking in our Engineering Leadership Professional Program. I wanted to understand his perspective on data and strategy. As you may know, he is a great person to talk to about these things. He joined Cisco and helped it grow from $1 billion…
UC Berkeley students put new startups to the test at SCET Collider Cup
As Fall semester came to a close, student teams from entrepreneurship classes offered through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology competed in the first annual Collider Cup. The event required participants to present their end-of-the year projects to real movers and shakers in the startup space, resulting in one stand-out team taking the prize…
Steve Blank helps Sutardja Center execs innovate at 50x
The world is being Amazoned. That is what startup legend Steve Blank argued last week at the Sutardja Center’s innovation leadership executive program — an annual summit of executives from around the world who come to Berkeley to learn how to make their companies more innovative. Things are quite different in the Amazon-age than they…
Innovation Workshop Held for William Demant Executive Team at Sutardja Center
The Sutardja Center was pleased to welcome the executive team from William Demant this week to our Innovation Collider space at the Cal Memorial Stadium. The custom workshop was focused on entrepreneurship and innovation in mature companies. William Demant, based in Denmark & founded in 1904, is a international leader in hearing healthcare. Today’s workshop offered a…
Global Venture Lab 2017
On behalf of the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, we would like to invite you to the 8th Global Venture Lab at UC Berkeley. The Global Venture Lab (GVL) is an international summit of academics, entrepreneurs, and innovators sharing common research and educational programs to spur new industry and economic growth. Since our first…
Is Your Data Strategy Working Hard Enough?
Every firm is under pressure to adapt and reinvent, and innovative firms know how to do this. Amazon started by selling retail products over the Internet, but later transformed to offer IT Cloud services as Amazon Web Services. Apple is a similar case — once only a computer company, it reinvented itself into a digital…
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…
An Introduction to the Newton Lecture Series – Ikhlaq Sidhu
Introduction to the Series: The third week of the Newton Lecture Series brought an introduction to the goals of the lecture series itself. Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director of the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, took time out of his busy schedule to meet with students in the series and discuss the SCET’s long-standing investment in…
Sutardja Center to lead $2.2 million entrepreneurship and innovation initiative for UC Berkeley
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology led by Chief Scientist and IEOR professor Ikhlaq Sidhu has just been awarded a $2.2 million grant on behalf of the leading centers and programs that accelerate the innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley. The new grant funds will help the Sutardja Center and its UC Berkeley partners…
Management of Technology Innovation Program Finals
Friday, December 2nd, 2016 saw the culmination of hard work students enrolled in MTI had put in all semester as groups presented their pitches to Naeem Zafar, serial entrepreneur and director of the MTI Program, Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, Director and Chief Scientist of SCET, and a panel of prominent VCs and mentors at SCET. Over…