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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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Carbonics: Seeking The Future In Carbon Nanomaterials

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in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. Kos Galatsis: We have worked on this for the past ten years, with funding from the semiconductor industry itself. Kos Galatsis: I''m from UCLA, and the other startup professor is from USC. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Raising money as a first-time VC fund is hard.In Many of my friends who are VCs (and some friends who tried to raise a fund unsuccessfully) warned me that raising for a first-time fund would be very difficult. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? As I look back on the last 18 months, I realize just how hard it was.

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REACH Connected Future | Cleantech Recap

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Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. Government Funding and Cleantech. Government funding is for lack of better words, a tricky endeavor.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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Mann had long sold the company and patents, but one of their providers which had been installing them surgically, and had started installing parts from China. Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on.

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

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Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

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