Rice University Reveals Details of New Innovation Hub

From Houston, Texas: “Rice University is going beyond the hedges with its hub at the Ion, for which the school has just details and renderings.

For over a year, Rice has been planning its Rice Nexus, a collaborative hub for the university’s innovation efforts located in the Ion District, Rice Management Company’s 16-acre district in Midtown. Expected to open this fall, the new space will be located across 10,000 square feet on two floors of the Ion.

“We believe in the power of innovation to transform lives and shape the future,” Rice President Reginald DesRoches says in a news release. “With the launch of the Rice Nexus at the Ion, we are embarking on a journey to unleash the full potential of Houston’s innovation ecosystem, driving positive change and rapid economic growth.”

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Q&A: Saikat Chaudhuri on the New Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub

From Berkeley, California: “Saikat Chaudhuri believes that the next 10 years will be among the most exciting in history—and that some of the most disruptive ideas will be hatched within the walls of the new Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub (eHub).

In a recent interview with Haas News, we spoke to Chaudhuri about his role as faculty director of the eHub, which will open to all UC Berkeley students this fall on the Berkeley Haas campus. Dawn McGee joins Chaudhuri as eHub executive director.

Chaudhuri, who arrived at Haas in 2021 from Wharton, is also the faculty director of the undergraduate Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (M.E.T.) program.

You came to Haas from Wharton, where you taught management and ran the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. What do you believe sets UC Berkeley apart as a startup and innovation machine?

Berkeley is pretty phenomenal when it comes to producing all kinds of ventures. It’s not just the Apples and the Intels and the Teslas and the Databricks that we’ve co-founded. It’s also the OpenAIs, for instance, and other household names, and thousands of startups overall across sectors. I’m proud that we’re the No. 1 university in the world for producing venture-backed startups in the PitchBook rankings, but what truly sets us apart is that founders at Berkeley are driven by a mission to change the world for the better.

But what I think about is: How do we make that even bigger? How do we produce even more incredible startups that go and disrupt the world and create positive change? We do it by helping the entire ecosystem become more productive and build the pipeline.”

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Clemson MBA Program Announces AI in Business Certificate

From Clemson, South Carolina: “The Clemson MBA Program is proud to announce the launch of the MBA Executive Board Learning Series this fall. This series aims to expand Clemson’s impact on professional education in the Greenville community with low-cost micro-certificates that address current trends in business.

The MBA Executive Board Learning Series is a condensed certificate program presented by the Phyfer Innovation Hub that offers opportunities for working professionals to engage in professional development.

The first installment of the series will explore the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Business. The curriculum is designed and led by Joe Gibson who teaches marketing and entrepreneurship in Clemson’s MBA program and has an extensive background working in the corporate world and startup companies.”

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