UCLA’s Tech Spinoffs

The LA Business Journal has a section this week on tech-type firms that have been spun off by UCLA.  Well, not exclusively UCLA; Caltech and USC are also part of the story.  An excerpt from the UCLA portion:

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…

Full story at

http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2012/aug/06/lab-market/?page=1& 

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