UC Davis alumni Michael C. and Renée Z. Child have made a $5.2 million commitment to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and College of Engineering in support of entrepreneurship and innovation programs.
At the Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, we believe that UC Davis students, faculty members, and staff have the responsibility to change the world. We believe that the Institute has the responsibility to help educate, train, and connect them to do it.
We are committed to delivering impactful programs, expertise, and networks to everyone in our community interested in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including under-represented and under-resourced people and groups.
At the Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, we believe that UC Davis students, faculty and staff have a responsibility to change the world.
And that we have a responsibility—and the tools, knowledge and expertise—to help you do just that.
We help researchers find a path to commercialization—and helpstudents develop the entrepreneurial mindset needed to solve our world’s challenging social and economic problems.
Founded by Lisa Illes, PHIXED SYSTEMS is featured on the UC Davis Curiosity Gap Blog, excerpted from a story in Forbes exploring how artificial intelligence can create jobs. 2020 Big Bang! award winner PHIXED SYSTEMS is an advanced analytics platform technology for bio-manufacturing. Read the articles: UC Davis >Forbes >
This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the smart, engaged, innovative students and post-docs in our Business Development and Keller Pathway Fellowship programs.
by Amir Bolandparvaz, Ph.D. Candidate and 2018/19 Business Development Fellow
Conference ignites student entrepreneurs
The 9th annual Ignite Conference (March 6–9, 2019) brought entrepreneurial students from multiple disciplines and universities together with business professionals and startup founders in an intensive four-day conference at UC Davis.
Blog Post by Diane Dou, Ph.D. Candidate and 2018/17 Business Development Fellow
Ignite is an exciting annual program that is brought to life through a partnership between UC Davis and Rice University. The Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship collaborated to bring me and 74 other graduate students of diverse backgrounds to the frontlines in Silicon Valley.
Professor Andrew Hargadon, champion of the Building the Entrepreneurial Mindset Big Idea, shares why this program is important for students. The UC Davis initiative is about helping students learn what they want to do and how they can explore and test their ideas—while learning from others and building things that have never been built before.
