CENTER FOR COMPUTATION & TECHNOLOGY

I will provide a summary, as practitioner, of the links between academia and high-tech startups, including the different approaches to found a startup or think about it: seed funding, incubators, different business models, how to protect your IP, federal and local sources of funding for small businesses, accounting, statistical data on success rates and such. Emphasis will be placed on the critical role of university policies to foster an environment on which such enterprises are encouraged and an infrastructure is in place, especially for students (undergrad and graduate ones) and young researchers, but also faculty. Such environments critically define the geographic areas where startups flourish. Agencies such as NSF have new programs promoting universities to serve as hubs for such initiatives. I will also share some of my own experiences about launching and running a startup while remaining active in academia. 

 

Disclaimer: none of my opinions necessarily reflect those of FASTech as a company or UCSD, or any of their funding sources.