Innovation Transfer Operations
Campus innovation events
Business schools sponsor campus events and competitions that focus students on team building around business plan and startup creation. Technology-oriented departments and student organizations also sponsor innovation events centered on technological or social goals. Teams have become more cross-disciplinary, partnering business with non-business students (engineering, medical, design, etc.) around innovations that may form the basis of a business or social enterprise. This list of events is ever-evolving on UC campuses:
- UC Berkeley Big Ideas
- UC Berkeley Cleantech University Prize
- UC Berkeley Global Social Venture Competition
- UC Berkeley CalHacks
- UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition
- UC Davis HackDavis
- UC Irvine New Venture Competition
- UC Irvine Beall Student Design & Butterworth Product Development
- UC Irvine HackUCI
- UCLA Knapp Venture Competition
- UCLA Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs
- UCLA BSC Venture Team Competition
- UCLA LA Hacks
- UC Merced Innovate to Grow
- UC Merced Mobile App Challenge
- UC Merced Innovation & Entrepreneurship Symposium
- UC Riverside Fast Pitch Competition
- UC Riverside Citrus Hack
- UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition
- UC Santa Barbara New Venture Fair
- UC Santa Barbara SB Hacks
- UC Santa Cruz Business Design Showcase
- UC Santa Cruz Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise
- UC Santa Cruz CruzHacks
- UC San Diego Rady Idea Challenge
- UC San Diego Triton Innovation Challenge
- UC SanDiego Entrepreneur Challenge
- UC San Diego SD Hacks
- UCSF Pediatric Device Accelerator Pitch Competition