On the eve of the 2016 edition of Giving Tuesday, CTC received the great news that Nixon Peabody would become a Laureate Sponsor of our new technology development foundation.
Why do roughly 30 U.S. states have technology development foundations, yet California does not have one? CTC launched a campaign to establish a new foundation, and benchmarked the missions, works, and structures of the sister organizations in many other states.
CTC Fellow Glyn Davis, Vice Chancellor at the University of Melbourne, talks about the important work of translating and commercializing more from California's great labs and universities.
CTC establishes a new foundation for the advancement of California technologies by fostering collaboration between researchers and industry, to increase commercialization of discoveries, and to drive greater economic growth in the state.
We heard from Indiegogo and the recently launched platform BioVerge about how to approach crowdfunding, establishing practical expectations, and taking into account all of the outcomes of a crowdfunding campaign.