socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A new competition--part of the Startup America effort launched by the Obama Administration, and spearheaded locally by Caltech, USC, and UCLA--said today that it is looking to award $200,000 in prize money to university students with clean energy business ideas. The competition is being funded via $360,000 grant from the U.S.

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Competition Ideas CalTech USC 174

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints. Where is this talent coming from?

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. I''m pretty active in all of them as a mentor, and I''m at least a frequent visitors to all of the local accelerators. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159