Innovation Support
The California Innovation Corridor (The Corridor) infrastructure is made up of federal labs, research universities, corporate R&D and manufacturing entities, national security RDT&E installations, and Nobel laureates—the greatest concentration of potential innovation assets in the world. Yet, despite California's reputation for entrepreneurship, according to the Innovation-Entrepreneurship NEXUS study, not a single sub-region within the Corridor's 13 counties was ranked within the top 25 most entrepreneurial regions in the country. The projects listed below are designed to significantly improve this condition.
Associated Projects (7):
- 1.1 Creation of an Economic Development Toolkit
- 1.2 Develop 21st Century Job Profiles to define future workforce skills and needs
- 1.3 Compilation of an Innovation Asset Inventory to foster innovation and entrepreneurship
- 1.4 Support of entrepreneurial companies, including SBIR Phase II awardees, to identify best practices that lead to commercialization
- 1.5 A pilot program set to identify and replicate an existing successful model of technology transfer from a university to the business community
- 1.6 Identification of a new model for student payload rideshares on military space craft
- 1.7 Establish a Workforce Innovation Board (WIB) toolkit for support of entrepreneurial companies
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