UCI launches first Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in UC system

Nine-month degree program combines coursework, mentoring, experiential learning

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In honor of the Beall family’s support, the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform to be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation

Irvine, Calif., May 23, 2019 — The University of California, Irvine has received a multimillion-dollar gift from The Beall Family Foundation, led by Donald R. and Joan F. Beall. The largest portion of the gift will go to the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform, UCI Applied Innovation, which will be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation. […]

UCI to host 2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogue conference

EVENT: Scholars, policymakers and industry professionals from around the world will convene at the University of California, Irvine to explore the future of the “fintech” sector in the U.S. and China at the two-day California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogue conference. The focus will be the rise of China’s middle class, shifts in the U.S. labor market, and evolving […]

UCI to make a splash at innovation event

UCI will be featured prominently at this year’s Innovator of the Year Awards, hosted by the Orange County Business Journal. The keynote speaker at the event, to be held at Hotel Irvine on Sept. 20, is Richard Sudek, chief innovation officer and executive director at UCI Applied Innovation. Sudek’s organization is a dynamic, innovative central […]

Pew Innovation Fund awards $200,000 to UCI biochemist Andrej Luptak

Andrej Luptak, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry, was awarded a $200,000 grant through the Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2017 Pew Innovation Fund. For the past 30 years, Pew has supported over 900 early career researchers. The new Innovation Fund provides a funding opportunity for scientists from different disciplines to collaborate […]

6 faculty entrepreneurs are selected for first proof-of-product grants from Applied Innovation

Six UCI professors are recipients of the first proof-of-product grants from Applied Innovation. These POP awards provide up to $125,000 each for innovators to move promising technologies closer to commercialization. More than 20 applications were submitted and reviewed by domain experts and industry advisers. The awardees and their projects are: The POP grants program is […]

A major innovation

UCI’s new degree program in global Middle East studies is not just interdisciplinary but interschool

Applied Innovation’s The Cove provides entrepreneurial ecosystem under one roof

Institute for Innovation rebrands as Applied Innovation to serve as ‘front door’ for all industry collaboration with UCI

UC Irvine Center for Chemical Innovation wins second, $20 million grant to observe molecules in action

The UC Irvine Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit has received a $20 million renewal award from the National Science Foundation to continue its ground-breaking work in pushing the limits of interrogating chemistry on ultrafast and ultrasmall scales. Ultimately, the goal is capture chemistry in the act on the single-molecule level.

Richard Sudek appointed executive director of UCI’s Institute for Innovation

Irvine, Calif., July 15, 2014 — The University of California, Irvine today named Richard Sudek, a respected scholar and higher-education leader who began his career as a technology entrepreneur, as executive director of its Institute for Innovation. Sudek will join the university Sept. 1 and report to Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Howard Gillman. “After […]