Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy

March 26-30, Monday-Friday - UC Davis experts will lead the first Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy, geared to helping students and researchers move environmental solutions out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. The five-day intensive program will blend effective theory with hands-on participation and solution-driven innovation. Participants will work within interdisciplinary teams under the guidance of UC Davis faculty, technology transfer experts, experienced entrepreneurs and investors from environmental science and technology-based ventures. The academy is hosted by the UC Davis Center for Entrepreneurship with funding from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation, Sierra Angels and the UC Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment. At the new Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences in Incline Village, Nev.

More information: http://entrepreneurship.ucdavis.edu/green/index.html

Media contact(s):
* Nicole Starsinic, Center for Entrepreneurship, (530) 220-2394
* Julia Ann Easley, UC Davis News Service, (530) 752-8248