The document summarizes a week-long business development boot camp attended by 22 graduate student researchers at UC Davis. The boot camp provided training in business skills like evaluating market opportunities, writing business plans, and pitching to investors. Students worked in teams to develop mini-business plans around their research. The program aims to help researchers commercialize their work and facilitate moving technologies out of the lab and into the marketplace. The boot camp and longer certificate program are helping make UC Davis researchers more innovative and entrepreneurial in applying their scientific discoveries.
Grandes fundos de investimento e grupos regionais possuem recursos financeiros para novos negócios no setor de saúde, que atraiu bilhões em investimentos em 2015 devido à permissão de capital estrangeiro. Novos modelos de gestão hospitalar serão implementados visando segmentação e resultados planejados com tecnologias de baixo custo e alta performance. Uma conferência em março reunirá gestores, investidores, advogados e fornecedores para discutir fusões e aquisições de hospitais.
An engagement interview is a process used by Medtronic to understand why employees stay with the company or what might influence them to leave. The goal is to gather data on drivers of employee engagement and use this information to help shape Medtronic's Blueprint for Change efforts to improve engagement.
Perkembangan motorik anak usia 4-6 tahun meliputi perkembangan motorik kasar dan halus. Motorik kasar berkaitan dengan gerakan tubuh besar seperti berlari dan melompat. Motorik halus berkaitan dengan koordinasi gerakan halus seperti menggambar dan menulis. Perkembangan ini penting untuk aspek fisik, sosial, dan kognitif anak.
This 4 minute YouTube video provides a tutorial on how to tie a basic knot for tying down a tarp or tent. It begins by showing the various materials needed like rope or cord and then demonstrates step by step how to create a simple overhand knot that can be used to anchor down grommets on a tarp to stakes in the ground. The video offers close up shots of the knot being tied and explains each step in an easy to understand manner so viewers can learn to tie this knot that is useful for camping and outdoor activities.
La ficha trata sobre los tipos de diodos, su estructura y comportamiento. Se concluyó que existen diferentes tipos de diodos con símbolos y curvas características únicas, y que los semiconductores tipo N y tipo P forman uniones que determinan los portadores mayoritarios. Además, se puede identificar el ánodo y cátodo de un diodo y cómo funciona con polarización directa e inversa, como en el caso del diodo túnel.
El documento describe el juego como un método de aprendizaje valioso para los niños y su desarrollo integral. Explica que a través del juego los niños pasan de jugar solos a interactuar de forma cooperativa con otros niños. Además, señala que el juego no solo es útil en el aula sino también en el hogar, donde las familias pueden planificar actividades educativas con sus hijos para fortalecer las relaciones y apoyar su educación.
Grandes fundos de investimento e grupos regionais possuem recursos financeiros para novos negócios no setor de saúde, que atraiu bilhões em investimentos em 2015 devido à permissão de capital estrangeiro. Novos modelos de gestão hospitalar serão implementados visando segmentação e resultados planejados com tecnologias de baixo custo e alta performance. Uma conferência em março reunirá gestores, investidores, advogados e fornecedores para discutir fusões e aquisições de hospitais.
An engagement interview is a process used by Medtronic to understand why employees stay with the company or what might influence them to leave. The goal is to gather data on drivers of employee engagement and use this information to help shape Medtronic's Blueprint for Change efforts to improve engagement.
Perkembangan motorik anak usia 4-6 tahun meliputi perkembangan motorik kasar dan halus. Motorik kasar berkaitan dengan gerakan tubuh besar seperti berlari dan melompat. Motorik halus berkaitan dengan koordinasi gerakan halus seperti menggambar dan menulis. Perkembangan ini penting untuk aspek fisik, sosial, dan kognitif anak.
This 4 minute YouTube video provides a tutorial on how to tie a basic knot for tying down a tarp or tent. It begins by showing the various materials needed like rope or cord and then demonstrates step by step how to create a simple overhand knot that can be used to anchor down grommets on a tarp to stakes in the ground. The video offers close up shots of the knot being tied and explains each step in an easy to understand manner so viewers can learn to tie this knot that is useful for camping and outdoor activities.
La ficha trata sobre los tipos de diodos, su estructura y comportamiento. Se concluyó que existen diferentes tipos de diodos con símbolos y curvas características únicas, y que los semiconductores tipo N y tipo P forman uniones que determinan los portadores mayoritarios. Además, se puede identificar el ánodo y cátodo de un diodo y cómo funciona con polarización directa e inversa, como en el caso del diodo túnel.
El documento describe el juego como un método de aprendizaje valioso para los niños y su desarrollo integral. Explica que a través del juego los niños pasan de jugar solos a interactuar de forma cooperativa con otros niños. Además, señala que el juego no solo es útil en el aula sino también en el hogar, donde las familias pueden planificar actividades educativas con sus hijos para fortalecer las relaciones y apoyar su educación.
Anti wrinkle cream reviews provide consumer opinions on products designed to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on the skin. Many reviewers note seeing improvements in wrinkle depth and skin texture after several weeks of use. However, results may vary depending on individual skin types and ageing factors.
Este documento describe un estudio sobre los problemas de obesidad entre los adultos mayores en el barrio Naranjo Palto en el cantón Paltas, provincia de Loja, Ecuador. El objetivo del estudio es investigar los problemas causados por la obesidad en esta población. La obesidad se define como una enfermedad crónica caracterizada por un exceso de grasa en el organismo que afecta a personas de todas las edades, especialmente a aquellos de 60 años o más.
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•Important regulatory, compliance and enforcement activity during 2015
•Noteworthy settlements and lessons learned over the past year
•Continuing developments with the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act
•Proactive compliance activities to protect your organization in 2016 and beyond
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•Jeffrey Fitzgerald, Shareholder, Polsinelli
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The present invention is a method of combination of hydraulic power generation and floating-body power generation, which could be applied directly into current energy storage system, or could be applied as an independent power generation unit which could directly generate power to grid or store in electrical batteries.
It works well as weather-proof solutions where there is seasonal water flow shortage or during drought disaster. Moreover, it could be a robust backup during routine maintenances or malfunction of existing system.
This robust system could be built on the places where there are liquid flow available and elevation differences preferred.
Moreover, investor could use retired carriers which transported crude, oil products or LNG as oil-storage tanks when they generate power profits.
该方法可以单独作为水利发电单元,也可以与水利发电配套使用,在季节性或干旱少水时,发挥其对水头要求不高的优点,增强整个系统的稳定性。同时,在水利系统检修或发生故障时,提供电力保障。该系统结构简单,包括悬浮体支撑结构,动力传输结构和发电机,一般电力建筑公司都有能力设计和施工。系统不需复杂的操作,易于实现自动化控制,操作成本和维护成本都很低。只要系统的防腐问题做的好,使用寿命至少在100年以上。
另外,悬浮重物如果是油船或液化气船,业主可以兼营油品储藏业务,虽然这样会减少水位上浮的发电能力,但油品储存的收入和由于油价的浮动而产生的效益可以作为经济补偿。
Produced e-magazine highlight entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship program, intended for online viewing. Assembled content, managed freelance writers, and executed design and layout.
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2) The experts provided feedback and selected the best projects, giving students valuable real-world perspective. Two computer science students also designed a system to streamline the judging process.
3) The winning projects included a Twitter sentiment analysis system and a project on helping people save food effortlessly. The quality of student work was praised by judges for being exceptional for undergraduates.
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Este documento describe un estudio sobre los problemas de obesidad entre los adultos mayores en el barrio Naranjo Palto en el cantón Paltas, provincia de Loja, Ecuador. El objetivo del estudio es investigar los problemas causados por la obesidad en esta población. La obesidad se define como una enfermedad crónica caracterizada por un exceso de grasa en el organismo que afecta a personas de todas las edades, especialmente a aquellos de 60 años o más.
An approach to creating high impact value propositions to customers v1sgSteve Gasner
A Road map to success. Differentiation strategy and overcoming price. Consult and create a game plan with your customer or prospect for a positive outcome.
Jan 7 16 hc webinar 2015 year in reviewPolsinelli PC
Health care providers continue to experience significant levels of scrutiny from CMS, OIG, audit and recovery contractors, as well as state and federal law enforcement agencies. As a result of heightened enforcement activity, health care providers may be at risk. To update you on the current regulatory and enforcement environment, this presentation focusing on fraud and abuse will cover:
•Important regulatory, compliance and enforcement activity during 2015
•Noteworthy settlements and lessons learned over the past year
•Continuing developments with the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act
•Proactive compliance activities to protect your organization in 2016 and beyond
Presenters:
•Jeffrey Fitzgerald, Shareholder, Polsinelli
•Asher D. Funk, Associate, Polsinelli
Method of energy storage and power generationJun Yao
The present invention is a method of combination of hydraulic power generation and floating-body power generation, which could be applied directly into current energy storage system, or could be applied as an independent power generation unit which could directly generate power to grid or store in electrical batteries.
It works well as weather-proof solutions where there is seasonal water flow shortage or during drought disaster. Moreover, it could be a robust backup during routine maintenances or malfunction of existing system.
This robust system could be built on the places where there are liquid flow available and elevation differences preferred.
Moreover, investor could use retired carriers which transported crude, oil products or LNG as oil-storage tanks when they generate power profits.
该方法可以单独作为水利发电单元,也可以与水利发电配套使用,在季节性或干旱少水时,发挥其对水头要求不高的优点,增强整个系统的稳定性。同时,在水利系统检修或发生故障时,提供电力保障。该系统结构简单,包括悬浮体支撑结构,动力传输结构和发电机,一般电力建筑公司都有能力设计和施工。系统不需复杂的操作,易于实现自动化控制,操作成本和维护成本都很低。只要系统的防腐问题做的好,使用寿命至少在100年以上。
另外,悬浮重物如果是油船或液化气船,业主可以兼营油品储藏业务,虽然这样会减少水位上浮的发电能力,但油品储存的收入和由于油价的浮动而产生的效益可以作为经济补偿。
Produced e-magazine highlight entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship program, intended for online viewing. Assembled content, managed freelance writers, and executed design and layout.
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1. SCHOOLNEWSbyTimAkin
As an icebreaker and team-building
exercise to spark creative thinking on
the first day of the GSM’s week-long
Business Development ‘boot camp,’
groups of graduate student researchers
had 30 minutes to devise a novel way to
launch a malt ball into a target 12 feet
away using only four feet of masking
tape, two file folders, a pencil, a playing
card, a Styrofoam cup and some rubber
bands and paperclips.
14 • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
I
n their labs, they’re breaking new ground in fields such as
clean energy, nutrition, animal science, software development,
chemical and biomedical engineering, and nanotechnology.
After spending a week together in an intensive business devel-
opment “boot camp” at the Graduate School of Management in
September, twenty-two of the best and brightest UC Davis graduate
student researchers have caught the entrepreneurial bug, experi-
enced the power of collaboration and envisioned the ‘big picture’
impact of their work.
Armed with new skills and knowledge, they’re primed to pitch
business plans based on their discoveries to potential investors
and are thinking more innovatively and strategically about tak-
ing their research to the marketplace.
For instance, Bevin Lin, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineer-
ing with the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and
Technology, is harnessing the power of light to develop an
advanced medical imaging technology. She plans to move it out
of the research lab and into the operating room, giving surgeons a
powerful new tool to peer deep into cells to diagnose and treat
cancer and other deadly diseases in real time. Such an optical tis-
sue biopsy could vastly improve patient care and survival rates.
“The Graduate School of Management’s ‘boot camp’ ran Ph.D.
cadets through drills, exercises, simulations, and competition,
rallying us at 8 a.m. each morning with a new challenge to
mount and a strategy to grasp,” Lin said of the experience.
STEM CELLS OF THE UNIVERSITY
GSM Associate Professor Andrew Hargadon, director of technology
management programs, said more and more campus researchers
are interested not only in entrepreneurship, but in learning what
it takes to make a difference with their research.
“Doctoral students are really the ’stem cells‘ of universities,”
said Hargadon, who heads the School’s Business Development
Programs. “They don’t have established labs to manage or a
research stream to worry about, so they are capable of becom-
ing whatever they want to be. They are able to guide their
research in ways that can foster commercialization or improve
the possibilities of getting that work into the market.”
The two Business Development Programs are designed to
transform UC Davis’ “stem cells” into tomorrow’s successful
scientist-entrepreneurs.
The one-week summer “boot camp” was spun out from the
year-long Business Development Certificate Program also spon-
sored by the UC Davis Office of Research and supported by the
School of Medicine, the UC Davis Health System, the Office of
Graduate Studies, the College of Engineering as well as venture
capital firm DFJ Frontier, an industry partner.
The five-day workshop offers a condensed version for graduate
student researchers who can’t commit to the year-long program.
While the workshop whets researchers’ appetite for new venture
development, the year-long program, which teams graduate stu-
dents in the sciences and engineering with MBA students, serves
up a full, five-course meal in technology management, innova-
tion and entrepreneurship.
Fellows emerge from the year-long program well-prepared to license
research, launch new ventures, or work in corporate research and
development. The program’s inaugural class of nine completed
studies last June, and eight new fellows began in the fall.
The Business Development Programs have attracted doctoral
researchers and their faculty advisors from more than 30 UC
Davis labs and research centers.
This past September’s one-week immersion workshop baptized
students in new venture design, tackling topics ranging from
evaluating market opportunities and writing business plans to
patenting and licensing intellectual property. It culminated with
six student teams each presenting a mini-business plan to a panel
of venture capitalists and seasoned entrepre-
neurs who critiqued and offered sage advice.
Judge Greg Chabrier, a Silicon Valley tech
veteran turned angel investor, described
the array and promise of the technologies
as “simply amazing.”
PAVING THE WAY FROM LAB TO MARKET
UC Davis Researchers Baptized in
(continued)
2. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT • 15
“We have a lot of great technology here that nobody has taken
seriously enough to commercialize,” said Chabrier, co-founder of
the Davis Catalysts, an organization of UC Davis alumni and
“friends of the campus” who have banded together to encour-
age and coach entrepreneurial activities at the university.
MANAGING INNOVATIVE IDEAS
Business students working alongside the fellows are learning
how to manage innovation and where they can best contribute
in a technology start-up. Many MBA students and researchers are
collaborating on entries for UC Davis CONNECT’s constellation
of Little Bang! contests and the GSM student-organized Big Bang!
Business Plan Competition, which offers yet another path to test
commercial potential. (see page 13)
“We are repositioning the Graduate School of Management to
be both a producer of managers, and also a connector between
the research discoveries on campus and the market,” said Dean
Nicole Woolsey Biggart.
“These Ph.D. students in the life sciences and engineering offer
our MBA students a great opportunity to work with emerging
technologies,” Biggart explained. “The MBA students are showing
the scientists how to make a difference with their technologies
by bringing them to market. As a result, these young scientists
are changing the culture of their laboratories.”
CROSSING GUARDS AT THE INTERSECTION
OF SCIENCE AND BUSINESS
Got Milk? Samara Freeman is licking her lips over the ad campaign
that has made running out of milk part of American pop culture.
Freeman, one of the first nine fellows to graduate from the
Business Development Certificate Program, is using what she
learned in her new role as a portfolio manager for a California
Dairy Research Foundation study headed by Professor Bruce
German of the UC Davis Department of Food Science and
Technology. As a liaison between academics and industry, she
is pursuing technology transfer opportunities and working with
communications experts to publicize research that shows the
health benefits of drinking milk.
“This is an ideal position for me, combining both the business
development skills I acquired through the GSM program and
my scientific research,” Freeman said. “The great thing is I’ve
found the area that I am passionate about—health and nutrition.”
German, a renowned food chemist, praised Freeman’s contri-
butions. “Her knowledge of business implications of scientific
research is proving to be a gold mine,” he said.
German is also a faculty advisor to two Ph.D. students in nutri-
tional biology who are current fellows in the year-long certificate
program. “The GSM program has done wonders in focusing the
students on how their science is applied,” he said.
College of Engineering Professor Steven Velinsky called the
Business Development Programs “invaluable” for students who
are interested in the ultimate application of their research. “It has
taken me many years to realize that ‘great innovations’ do not
sell themselves; these great ideas still need to be ‘packaged and
sold,’” said Velinsky, who is faculty advisor to fellow Danny Lee,
a Ph.D. candidate studying electro-mechanical systems.
“The certificate program teaches high-level engineers how too
make such a case and sell their technologies,” Velinsky added.
UC Davis Vice Chancellor of Research Barry Klein, a partner
and evangelist for the Graduate School of Management’s initia-
tive, said the programs are just what the doctor ordered as they
bridge scientific discovery and business applications.
“Both the one-week and certificate programs enhance the inno-
vation tool kits of these scientists and prepare them for a career
that may include significant industry interactions,” Klein said.
‘Boot camp’ alumna Lin said Klein is right on the money: “The
Business Development Intensive Program is the rabbit hole to a
wonderland of opportunities, social networks, and a matrix for
entrepreneurial campus researchers to broaden their experience,
skills and abilities.”
These eight UC Davis graduate student and post-doctoral researchers are
the second set of fellows to study and work with MBA students in the year-
long Business Development Certificate Program offered by the Graduate
School of Management. Front row (left to right): Angela Zivkovic,
Nutritional Biology; Jennifer Smilowitz, Nutritional Biology; Daphna Dror,
Nutritional Biology; Jorge Campos, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Back row (left to right): Tracy Brockman, Internal Medicine/Nutrition;
Danny Lee, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering; Matthew Caldwell,
Institute of Transportation Studies, Transportation and Technology;
Christine Funke, California National Primate Research Center.
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