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Grant Students
Aug/Sep Focus: Help is at hand - entrepreneurship centers
at UC
Meeting experienced entrepreneurs, vetting a business strategy,
brushing up on some management skills, getting some expert
advice, all from the comfort of your campus? Or even your
department? Sooner or later you will have to leave the
lab, but you may not have to go very far.
UC has several entrepreneurship centers, offering a range
of services and support for students and faculty interested
in or currently involved in starting a business. The centers
are usually associated with campus engineering or management
schools, but many services are available to students outside
those schools too - and if not, it's worth asking, since
many centers are expanding their programs.
At UCSB engineering and science students learn business
and entrepreneurial skills in interdisciplinary classes and
extra-curricular activities with students from across campus
through the newly developing Technology Management Program
within the College of Engineering. The program’s curriculum
and the significant extra-curricular activities of the Center
for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management (CEEM) provide
a powerful way for students to jump start their careers.
As a recent graduate student put it,” These courses
and the business plan competition got me my job at a Bay
area start-up for more salary and more options then I would
have ever believed”. Or the most common student feedback, “Best
courses I’ve taken!”
UCSB Technology Management courses include: ENGR185A, “The
Art of the CEO: Business Basics for Future Leaders”;
ENGR185B, “New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship”;
ENGR185C, “Business Planning for New Technology Ventures”;
ENGR185C,”New Product Development”; ENGR191/291A, “Entrepreneurial
Marketing”; ENGR191/292B, “Financial Modeling
for Entrepreneurs and Project Managers”, and ENGR191/291C, “Transitioning
from Technologist to Manager”.
Check the links below to find out more about what your campus
entrepreneurship center has going on, and check our calendar for campus and local events starting next month.
Campus Entrepreneurship Centers:
UC Berkeley: Lester
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
UC Irvine: Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
UCLA: Harold
Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
UC
Riverside: Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial
Management, coming to Palm Desert. Track progress at: http://www.palmdesert.ucr.edu/news.html
UCSD: William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and
Technology Advancement
UCSF: Center for BioEntrepreneurship
UCSB: Technology
Management Program’s Center for
Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management
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