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| There's a great story behind this picture that has nothing to do with the Regents and everything to do with keeping kids from excess screen time 66 years ago in Britain.** |
The Regents Special Committee on Innovation Transfer and Entrepreneurship met at UC-Santa Barbara on April 6. As we noted in a prior posting, it followed a special meeting called to raise the compensation of the UC-San Diego chancellor.*
The Innovation Committee followed the standard boosterism script for its meetings. Public comments included speakers singing the praises of UC-SB's contributions to technology and entrepreneurship. But there were also comments asking for more funding for disabled students, a continuation of some comments at the earlier special meeting that day.
UC-SB's chancellor and VC for research continued the boosterism presentation. Regent Leib talked about working with legislators to obtain funding for the "Proof of Concept Fund," a UC program started in 2011 which aimed at providing early funding for entrepreneurial activity which apparently has run out of money. There was a presentation on LED lighting technology. And finally there was discussion of the patent tracking system. Yours truly has a sense that it was the topic of patent tracking that led to creation of this committee which then embarked on touring the various campuses.
You can see the entire meeting at the link below:
Innovation Committee:
General website for the two special committee meetings:
https://archive.org/details/special-meeting-of-the-board.
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/04/watch-regents-provide-500000-salary.html.
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