UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute partnered with Nesta, the UK’s leading institute studying innovation, and the University of Cambridge to produce the first empirical country level study of crowdfunding and other forms of social finance. The full report was released on December 13, 2013 and shows that equity crowdfunding grew over 600% in the UK and… Read More »
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Ikhlaq Keynote Speaker at Conference on Science & Creativity in Seoul, Korea
I was recently the keynote speaker for Korea’s Conference on Science and Creativity in Seoul hosted by the KOFAC foundation. To an audience of Korean policy makers and faculty, I introduced the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship.
UC Berkeley, Nesta and the University of Cambridge jointly launch the UK Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey
Press Release Berkeley, London and Cambridge. The world’s leading entrepreneurial and social finance research center at the University of California, Berkeley is partnering with Nesta and the University of Cambridge to launch the UK Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey. Opens on 25 November and closes on 5 December, this benchmarking survey aims to capture the size,… Read More »
How is Crowdfunding Changing Life as We Know It Today?
Taken from Berkeley Engineer Fall 2013 Volume 4 (Pictured Above: Richard Swart, Director, Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance) One of the biggest roadblocks to innovation is access to capital. Until last year, laws written decades ago, which were designed to protect everyday investors in an information-poor environment, dictated how the financial world… Read More »
CET Lecturers, Danner and Coopersmith, Featured on KTVU Commenting on the Twitter IPO
Taken from KTVU News Experts say users will likely see changes because the company must find a way to make money to satisfy its shareholders. “It has got to show the market how it can convert millions and millions of users all over the world into customers,” said John Danner, a senior fellow at UC… Read More »
Avoiding the Traps of Big Data
By now it’s well known that Target Corporation (Target) “knew a teen girl was pregnant before her father did”. Not only was the story told many times over in the New York Times, but it also became one of the lead examples illustrating the intrinsic value of “big data”. A bit creepy, yes, but basically… Read More »
SEC Attempts ‘Balance’ In Equity Crowdfunding Plan
Taken from Forbes In a move many watchers find promising, the SEC today approved a proposed plan from Congress for the rules to define equity crowdfunding in the U.S., a long-awaited outcome of the bipartisan JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act that was enacted last year. The proposal now remains open for comment for the… Read More »
Berkeley Crowdfunding Symposium Produces International Research Agreement
Taken from Berkeley College of Engineering News Center The first international agreement to share research data on crowdfunding — an increasingly popular financing model that allows entrepreneurs to raise capital using social media — was framed during an Oct. 17–18 symposium organized by the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. The symposium, Crowdfunding:… Read More »
Crowdfunding Symposium to Address Innovation in Social Finance
A new symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, held by the Fung Institute, will explore the world of crowdfunding, an increasingly popular financing model that harnesses the power of social networks to raise money. The event will be the first international academic symposium on the innovative funding technique that has allowed small businesses and… Read More »
How is Your Ambiguity Tolerance? Invitation to Join Our Research on Entrepreneurship & Ambiguity
Comfort Zone Scale I’ve just returned from Madrid, teaching in the final week of our inaugural Global Engineering Leadership Program. This program extends the content I designed for the Silicon Valley Professional Program, with an Asian and European perspective on technology firm leadership. While the program covers a variety of new… Read More »