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Lee Fleming Presents Work on Independent Boards and Innovation to Kansas City’s Federal Reserve

July 7, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Fung Institute Faculty Director Lee Fleming presented his work on Independent Boards and Innovation to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.  The work (co-authored with Gustavo Manso and Ben Balsmeier) looks at firms whose boards were forced to become more independent by Sarbanes Oxley. While such firms invent more patents, those patents are much… Read More »

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UC Berkeley Takes Lead in Understanding Crowdfunding Revolution

April 14, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Crowdfunding is changing the future of finance by fostering the exchange of capital through new technology channels and by providing a more equal playing field for funding investors and recipients. A new partnership at the University of California, Berkeley, now provides a premier hub of education, research, and learning engagement on all topics related to… Read More »

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Professor Lee Fleming’s Research featured in Bloomberg Business

March 17, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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The secret to Silicon Valley’s triumph as the global capital of innovation may lie in a quirk of California’s employment policy, a new study suggests. Unlike most states, California prohibits the legal enforcement of non-compete clauses, which force people who leave jobs to wait for a predetermined period before taking positions at rival companies. That… Read More »

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MEng Alum raises $2M in venture capital

March 13, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Congratulations to Connor Landgraf (BS’13, MEng ’14 BioE), CEO and Co-Founder of Eko Devices, a bioengineering startup for raising $2 million in funding for its Eko Core digital attachment on stethoscopes. View Eko Core video

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MEng Research Featured in the Economist

March 12, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

Alice Agogino’s Capstone on off planet locomotion has been featured in the Economist. The MEng team consists of Kyunam Kim, Andrew Sabelhaus, and Deaho Moon. Good work team! Click here to access article.

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MEng ’14 Thibault Duchemin featured in Berkeley Engineering for his mobile app, Transcense

January 20, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

Taken from Berkeley Engineering Globally, 360 million people suffer from disabling hearing loss — that’s 5 percent of the world’s population. In the demographic over 65 years old, that number increases to 40 percent. Thibault Duchemin (MEng ’14 IEOR) isn’t one of them, but he understands the many challenges that deaf people face. Duchemin grew… Read More »

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MEng ’14 Connor Landgraf & his Eko Devices Team named in Forbes 30 under 30

January 9, 2015 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Taken from Forbes 30 under 30 Congratulations to MEng ’14 Connor Landgraf & his Eko Devices Team for being named in Forbes 30 under 30! The Eko Core attaches to a regular stethoscope and allows doctors to visualize, record, share, and analyze heart sounds using a cloud-based algorithm. Angel investors including Founder.org and Michael Baum… Read More »

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Why Crowdfunding Closes the Gender Gap

December 19, 2014 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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12.17.14 Alice Robb, a Fung Institute Research Fellow has, wrote an article about the struggle for women to get their ventures funded and how they are using crowdfunding to level the playing field.  Link to Article

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RanchRide Launches Nov. 10 with the Help of MEng ’14 Capstone Team

November 10, 2014 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Taken from KLTV Starting Monday, November 10, 2014, the new pilot program called “RanchRide” will offer a host of convenient transportation or “mobility” services exclusively to residents of the 4,000-acre Ladera Ranch community and the 6,000-acre Rancho Mission Viejo community, both in South Orange County, CA. MEng ’14 Capstone Team (Rahul Mehendiratta, Saddiq Nuru, Gregory… Read More »

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Congratulations Sandya Iyer and Sunil Srinivasan, our 2015 Cooper Fellows!

October 17, 2014 By funginstitute Leave a Comment

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Congratulations Sandya Iyer and Sunil Srinivasan, our 2015 Cooper Fellows! The Fellowship supports graduate students in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with a preference for those doing research in energy efficient electrical and power hardware or software solutions, wireless communications and sensing devices, or specialty materials. The fellowship was created… Read More »

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