Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Vicki Gonzalez, Found of Nidus Partnership

Monday, January 23, 2012, 2 PM - 4 PM, at Sutardja Dai Hall Hall, 250 (map).

Vicki Gonzalez is a founding member and managing partner of Nidus Investment Partners bringing more than 25 years of executive management experience in the plant and life science market.  She brings the experience of starting businesses from both within large corporations as well as independently, providing unique insight into how to deliver results to Nidus Corporate Partners. To learn more about Vicki Gonzalez visit: http://niduspartners.com. And be sure not to miss her talk at next the Topics in Open Innovation Speaker Series next week Monday.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series Presents: Professor Kevin Boudreau of London Business School, UK

Monday, January 23, 2012, 2 PM - 4 PM, at Sutardja Dai Hall Hall, 250 (map).

Professor Kevin Boudreau's area of expertise is strategy and entrepreneurship. Professor Boudreau focuses on questions at the intersection of innovation, competition and organization. His work is heavily empirical and quantitative, including the econometric analysis of large naturally-occurring data sets and field experiments. While focusing on a range of novel approaches to organizing, Professor Boudreau's applied work tends to build on and make contributions to a range of longstanding issues in the economics and management of innovation (e.g., contracting, governance, intellectual property, industrial organization, heterogeneity of innovators and innovation approaches.) If you would like to learn more about Professor Kevin Boudreau's research and review his CV, visit http://www.kevinboudreau.com. Be sure not miss him at the Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series.

The Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and the University of California community.

The official Spring 2012 Topics In Open Innovation Speaker Series poster can be downloaded here: http://mot.berkeley.edu/SP12TIOIPoster.pdf.

Spring 2012 TOPICS IN OPEN INNOVATION Speaker Series Schedule

Mondays, 2 PM - 4 PM at Sutardja Dai Hall 250 (map)

The Spring 2012 Open Innovation Speaker Series is a weekly series intended to provide both academic and managerial perspectives on open innovation and related subjects. Admission to the speaker series is free to students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the University of California community.

January 23, 2012
Kevin Boudreau
Professor, London Business School, UK

January 30, 2012
Vicki Gonzalez
Founder, Nidus Partnership

February 6, 2012
John Roese
Vice President of Research & Development, Huawei

February 13, 2012
Alph Bingham
Founder, InnoCentive

February 27, 2012
Keld Laursen
Professor, Copenhagen Business School

March 5, 2012
Dr. Steven Friend
President and Cofounder, Sage Bionetworks

March 12, 2012
Karim Lakhani
Professor, Harvard Business School

March 19, 2012
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Professor, ESADE, Barcelona, Spain

April 2, 2012
Mark Hatch
CEO,TechShop

April 9, 2012
Barbara Holzapfel
Senior Vice President of Portfolio Marketing, SAP Labs North America

April 16, 2012
Dr. Anurag Srivastava
CTO, Wipro

April 23, 2012
Ashish Chatterjee
Director Proctor & Gamble, Connect + Develop

April 30, 2012
John Jacobsen
Head of Engineering, quirky.com

Visit http://openinnovation.haas.berkeley.edu for complete program and schedule information.

The Speaker Series is sponsored by the Management of Technology Program. To learn more about the Management of Technology Program, visit http://mot.berkeley.edu.

A New Spring MOT Class - The Lean Launchpad

Announcing Steve Blank's Spring 2012 The Lean Launchpad (ENG 290.1/EWMBA 295T.1).

Learn about the experience that turns hackers, hustlers and designers into entrepreneurs. It is one of the most influential classes in entrepreneurship education - Steve Blank's The Lean Launchpad. Put "Steve Blank Lean Launchpad" into your favorite search engine and read the success stories.

Learn how you can develop your technical idea into a real company. Within ten weeks, your team will learn the fundamentals of how to build a startup, with lectures from a teaching team that has built companies and now funds them. More important than the lectures, you will learn by getting out of the classroom and talking to customers and partners. This class will have you work harder then you have ever done before.

Read more of the course description and FAQs on the class website: https://sites.google.com/site/mba295f1/

The class is on Monday nights, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM, starting January 23, 2012. Class enrollment is limited to 31 students - 16 Haas EWMBA students and 15 College of Engineering Graduate Students. In order to participate, you must apply as a team and be accepted. Team applications are due on Friday, January 13, 2012, by 11:59:59PM. Only teams that submit applications will be called in for the final yes/no interview to be conducted during week of January 16, 2012.

Here is how to apply:

• Locate others to team up with by visiting the sign-up sheet located here: http://bit.ly/sLSSiI
• Apply as a team by completing the application form. The application form can be downloaded here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45374222/EW295T%20Application%20Form%20.pptx
• Email your completed team application to joshibhavik@gmail.com by Friday, January 13, 2012.

The Lean Launchpad is taught by Steve Blank entrepreneur/lecturer at Berkeley-Haas and Stanford. Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder or early employee at 8 startups, including 4 resulting in successful IPOs. For the past 10 years he's been teaching entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley Haas School of Business students. The San Jose Mercury News has called him one of the 10 influencers in Silicon Valley.

MOT Announces the Mayfield Fellows for 2012

The Management of Technology Program would like to congratulate the following students on being selected for the Summer 2012 Mayfield Fellows Program:

Alan Yiu, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering


Chawita Netirojjanakul, College of Chemistry
Vivien Leong, Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Raja Muthuraman, Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Tony Le Verger, Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Carla Vasquez, Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Luis Navarro, Berkeley-Haas School of Business
Patrick Wendell, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vimal Kini, School of Information

Congratulations and good luck.

To learn more about the Mayfield Fellowship Program, visit the MOT website and the UC Berkeley Student Mayfield Fellows Program website.

Mayfield Fellows Internship Summer 2012 Applications Due

Application deadline is Thursday, November 3, 2011, at noon.  

Bring the following materials, clipped together with a cover sheet “Attention Andrew Isaacs” to Room S550 in the Student Services Wing of the Haas School of Business: (a) a one page resume (b) a one-page essay stating how you feel you will benefit from the opportunity, and why you are well suited for this internship (c) two letters of recommendation, with at least one, if possible, from a previous employer. Both letters of recommendation must include the telephone number of the recommender, who will be contacted if you are selected as a finalist. Applications must be submitted by noon on November 3, 2011. Finalists will be interviewed on November 11; winners will be announced by November 18.

To learn more about the Mayfield Fellows Internship visit: http://mot.berkeley.edu/Berkeley_Students/Students/Fellowships/FellowsMayfield.html.

Fung Institute Master of Engineering/CET/MOT Halloween Networking Mixer

When: Friday 28th October (5-7pm)

Where: Blum Hall Plaza Level (Basement level)

Cost: Free

RSVP: Please register via Eventbrite by Thursday 27th so we know how much pizza/drink to get. http://menghalloween.eventbrite.com/

This is a student organized event so everyone please come, meet students in the CET, MOT and M.Eng. programs, network, and get to know other students interested in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

In order to experience the Halloween spirit, I encourage everyone to come in a costume if you can!

Also...i'd like to introduce the M.Eng. Berkeley Bear Band.

They have been practicing weekly so please come and support them at the mixer and watch them perform some great hits!

Hope to see everyone there!