Innovation & Entrepreneurship News

The culture and spirit of innovation at UC Berkeley throughout history can be seen in the changemakers who have helped in countless ways to improve our lives and our world.

PitchBook 2023 data shows that Berkeley undergraduate students and alumni have created more companies than founders from any other university in the world.

New treatments for cancer and heart disease and new tools to remove tumors are among seven innovations selected this year to receive a Bakar Fellows Spark Award, of which multiple recipients are UC Berkeley faculty.

UC Berkeley School of Public Health launches the new Berkeley Center for Health Innovations and Entrepreneurship to create solutions for the health problems faced by an aging population.

The Molecular Therapeutics field focuses on innovative approaches to treat diseases, and the division hopes to accelerate the drug discovery process from idea to laboratory to clinic.

Berkeley Haas Professor Sameer Srivastava and co-authors have developed a deep learning model that can identify where and when prescient ideas first emerge.

Dubbed “the Woodstock of Hackathons,” the event was hosted by Berkeley’s premiere startup accelerator, Berkeley SkyDeck, and Cal Hacks, a nonprofit that runs collegiate hackathons.

A new study is the first to document how removing commission fees on trading platforms improves returns for the average trader.

New research has shown that people who experience periods of high inflation in their lifetimes are significantly more likely to own a home.

For the fourth straight year, UC Berkeley topped the list as the nation’s best public university for startup founders.

A new book collects Harrison’s path-breaking work on globalization, trade, and foreign direct investment into a single volume. 

Berkeley Haas provides novel insight into the subscription model and that the market for online subscription services will be $900 billion by 2026.