Published last month by the University of California Press, “Startup Campus: How UC Berkeley Became an Unexpected Leader in Entrepreneurship and Startups” tells the story of how the university turned from viewing corporate activities with disdain to embracing a culture of collaboration and innovation. Among the many partner organizations mentioned in its pages is CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, which is credited with a key role in the transformation.
According to principal author Mark Cohen, it took years of focused and intentional changes led the university to see the value in startups and industry partnerships.The book, written with the support of UC Berkeley’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council, calls out CITRIS and the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), a fellow California Institute for Science & Innovation, for demonstrating how corporate funding can boost the campus’s research capabilities.
“Startup Campus” also recognizes the CITRIS Foundry, established in 2013, for pioneering the university’s approach to stock equity. It highlights the Foundry’s deep tech focus, which supports startups that require a great deal of research and development time and capital to bring their products to market, as well as the targeted faculty support of the new CITRIS Innovation Fellowship and AIC Awards program.
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