Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

College of EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley

“Equip Berkeley engineers and scientists with the skills

to innovate, lead, and commercialize technology

in the global economy.”

Teaching Entrepreneurship and Creating Ecosystem

Our Model Brings Bay Area Executives, VCs and

Entrepreneurs into the Classroom

Jon Burgstone, Founder Supplier MarketMichael Marks, KKR, former CEO, FlextronicsShomt Ghose, Venture Partner, Onset VenturesIan Sobieski, Managing Director, Band of AngelsMarc Andreesen, Founder, NetscapeLarry Baer, COO, San Francisco GiantsJory Bell, CEO, OQO UltraPersonal Computing Stacey Lawson, Founder In Part, Executive Seibel Jim Davidson, Managing Director, Silverlake PartnersDonna Dubinsky, Former CEO, PalmIn Sik Rhee, co-founder and CEO, OpswareRichard Gorman, SVP, Siebel SystemsRick Hill, CEO, Novellus SystemsBrodie Keast, EVP, TiVoDavid Ladd, Managing Director, MayfieldJeff Miller, CEO, DocumentumEva Miranda, SVP, Sony CorporationRavi Mohan, Managing Director, Shasta VenturesGeoffrey Moore, MDV, Author, “Crossing the Chasm” Allen Morgan, Managing Director, Mayfield Peter Thiel, co-founder and CEO, PayPalMarv Tseu, co-founder and CEO, Active ReasoningStephanie DiMarco, co-founder and CEO, Advent SoftwarePehong Cheng, CEO, Broadvision

Five Differentiating Skills that We Can Teach the Next Generation of Berkeley Engineers and Scientists

• To know the problem worth solving –Opportunity recognition–To have “judgment” of what is likely to work in a business sense

• To know how to acquire resources• To be able to communicate (to customers, managers,

investors)• To know how to work within and build global

virtual teams• To be “Leaders in a Global Economy”, not “commoditized

contributors”

Curriculum: Educating leaders with broad, multidisciplinary skills

Over 800 students enrolled annually – both undergraduate and graduate in CET/IEOR

A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series

A six-unit curriculum sequence in Entrepreneurship & Technology Leadership

Translational Research Projects (Labs)

Venture Lab – 10 teams per year, space, seed funds, mentoring, SV network, (8 past funded firms)

Industry Lab- new industry projects and result in CET Technical Briefs publication series

Global Ecosystem Over 200 active professionals - entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and

investors Over 20 global partnerships – Global Venture Lab Network Global Technology Leaders Conference to provide thought leadership

Translational Research Example: Rollout Design for EV Infrastructure in Bay Area

• Graduate students from Engineering (EECS, ME, IEOR), School of Business (Haas), and Public Policy (Goldman)

• Multidisciplinary problems:–User models and geographic layout–Electric Grid loading–Economic analysis, job creation, trade balance

• Formats: Preliminary research, executive summits, new project course options, Global Venture Lab Technical Briefs

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