UCLA: Enabling Campus
Entrepreneurs
UCLA spun out 19
startups during its 2011 fiscal year, making it the leader among the University
of California campuses in technology transfer. About 90 startups have come out
of the campus in the last five years. Some of the startups to come out of UCLA in
the past several years show the wide range of the school’s technological
community. WaveConnex, a recent startup, uses radio waves to connect electrical
devices. Tribogenics has a handheld X-ray component that could be of use in
developing areas of the world. C3 Jian has a mouthwash that targets harmful
bacteria, leaving the kind that is beneficial to the body behind. And PROnoise
lets the online community help publicize musicians. “If you can enable
entrepreneurs on campus, it comes back to the university in innumerable ways,”
said Brendan Rauw, executive director of entrepreneurship at UCLA’s Office of
Intellectual Property…
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