His research has examined the role of social networks in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy as well as email networks and employment outcomes. Professor Toby Stuart is faculty director of the Institute for Business Innovation. See the full list of Berkeley MBA experiential learning opportunities. Students are exposed to all the pressures and demands of an early stage startup on the path to build something that customers would use and buy. Lean Launchpad is a real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to start a high-tech company. Clients have included PayPal, Autodesk, and Nissan’s Silicon Valley Research Center.

connects Berkeley faculty, students, and companies interested in promoting and driving innovation, through project-based courses, membership based activities, and other initiatives. The class focuses on one client and business issue, for example, Shell and urban mobility, or and online travel. Learn a structured approach to a business challenge that combines the best of design thinking, innovation strategy, and entrepreneurship in a course that takes place at THNK School of Creative Leadership in Amsterdam. Students work closely with UC Berkeley counterparts within engineering fields to create innovative products, aimed at addressing a social problem in a developing country and using collaborative team-based techniques.

Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies Project teams will work through a full product development cycle that culminates in a virtual design fair, soliciting and analyzing customer feedback. Introduces innovation and new product development for Web-based desktop and mobile customer products and services. Design and Development of Web-Based Products and Services In Cleantech to Market (C2M), interdisciplinary teams of graduate students from across UC Berkeley work with scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to complete projects that will help accelerate the commercialization of new solar, biofuel, battery, and smart grid/energy management technologies.

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