1 / 16

Ikhlaq Sidhu

How to Accelerate Science based Innovation and Entrepreneurship Clover Engineering 2030 International Advisory Board. Ikhlaq Sidhu Chief Scientist & Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology IEOR Emerging Area Professor

amybowman
Download Presentation

Ikhlaq Sidhu

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How to Accelerate Science based Innovation and EntrepreneurshipClover Engineering 2030 International Advisory Board Ikhlaq Sidhu Chief Scientist & Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology IEOR Emerging Area Professor Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley

  2. Universities and Industry Misconception Universities New Ventures Smartest People Technology Message 0: A Misconception

  3. Universities and Industry Universities New Ventures Smartest People Technology This is misconception

  4. Universities and Industry Execution Talent Grow Universities: Stanford Berkeley Smartest People Large Firms Skilled Employees New Ventures Create World Brain Drain

  5. Universities and Industry Execution Talent Grow Universities: Stanford Berkeley Smartest People Large Firms New Ventures Skilled Employees Create World Brain Drain Government Role is to: 1) allow competition and protect disruptors 2) keep business friction low (including paperwork and taxes) 3) Fund projects that create skills

  6. Message 1: (Innovation) Culture Matters Two Cities in USA • San Diego Chicago

  7. What Can a University Contribute Message 2: Teach both: skills for innovation culture for innovation

  8. Message 3: Question: How do you teach innovation culture: Answer: Decide who will be the role models: entrepreneurs, innovators, political leaders, social leaders, professors, executives? Also time and freedom 1) to challenge conventional thinking 2) to build and create

  9. How does one teach an entrepreneur? Message #4:

  10. Answer: Its like teaching a bird to fly We need alumni entrepreneurs at scale in our projects and classrooms A bird has to learn it by itself. If anyone can help – its another bird

  11. Message #5: Example Discipline: Computer Science Statistics Chemistry Example Problem: Clean water Traffic congestion Cost of food What about research? • Shift some focus Disciplinesto Problems Problems can be Societal or Industry Global (copy) or Local (take a chance to be unique)

  12. Message #5: Use-Inspired Research is generally along Pasteur’s Quadrant Example Discipline: Computer Science Statistics Chemistry Example Problem: Clean water Traffic congestion Cost of food

  13. Message 6: There is still a gap Industry ? Skill/ Culture University Large Firms Research

  14. Message 6: There is still a gap Industry Venture Ecosystem * Supplier to firms * Not only high tech Skill/ Culture University Research What will speed this up? What are the policy options? Employment contracts?, Subsidy to local small ventures? Tax incentives? Global partners requirements? Culture or education in firms?

  15. Contact: Ikhlaq Sidhu, sidhu@berkeley.duSutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & TechnologyUC Berkeley. End of Session

  16. Message #5: At Berkeley, our next mission is to leverage alumni at greater scale

More Related