New course introduces undergrads to world of venture capital
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The Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program (BHEP) and UC Berkeley Engineering have won a five-year $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to train and support entrepreneurs.
UC Berkeley is one of seven Innovation Corps “nodes” across the US that are supporting commercializing science and technology. UC Berkeley is serving as lead on the grant, partnering with UCSF & Stanford University. Two of the key activities the grant will support for students are:
Berkeley-Haas received a previous NSF grant, in 2013, for $3.75 million.
The team used feedback from students and instructors who participated in programs offered through the 2013 grant to improve the current programs, said Rhonda Shrader, director of the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program.
“We found that students wanted shorter immersive courses that were less of a time commitment, and they wanted more opportunities in the Startup Marketplace to collaborate. That’s what we’ve tried to engineer,” Shrader said.
Now, MBA students are working with students all over campus, she said, “creating an environment for deeper collaboration.”
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