The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center launches the CLIC-Edge Training Program in collaboration with Osaka University. Over the next three years, the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center will provide accelerated technology commercialization training – based on the von Liebig NSF I-Corps Program – for students from Osaka University. Using some of the principles of the LEAN Startup methodology, this program teaches participants the importance of customer input early in the technology development/commercialization process as well as the importance of the ability to “fail fast,” iterate and develop better solutions.
Last week von Liebig welcomed the program’s first cohort comprised of faculty, researchers and senior administrators from Osaka, Japan.
In addition to going through the training program, this first cohort is testing the program and finalizing its structure and curriculum for student cohorts that will begin arriving in the Fall. The program’s curricula includes the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center’s full commercialization program from idea validation through proof of concept to venture formation, courses on customer development and graduate level entrepreneurism, as well as their lean startup methodology.
Program participants will bring technologies created at Osaka University and will be encouraged to utilize the educational programs and access to business mentors offered by the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center. The program also connects Japanese grad students, researchers and faculty with their counterparts at UC San Diego.
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Osaka University professor, Dr. Yasuo Kanematsu (pictured right), believes that the program will be a great opportunity for open minded, challengeable students looking for improvement. After observing a session of the NSF Innovation Corps program held at the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center, Kanematsu explained that it has been more difficult to provide to exact same type of mentor relationship and feedback to Osaka University students and that this program will be a unique opportunity for Japanese students.
Dr. Satoshi Kabasawa, instructor and program manager at Keio University, has been studying innovation for 10 years. He believes that the final program will be important in changing the mindsets of Osaka University faculty and students who are not so eager to fail.
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Osaka University professor, Dr. Yasuo Kanematsu (pictured right), believes that the program will be a great opportunity for open minded, challengeable students looking for improvement. After observing a session of the NSF Innovation Corps program held at the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center, Kanematsu explained that it has been more difficult to provide to exact same type of mentor relationship and feedback to Osaka University students and that this program will be a unique opportunity for Japanese students.Dr. Satoshi Kabasawa, instructor and program manager at Keio University, has been studying innovation for 10 years. He believes that the final program will be important in changing the mindsets of Osaka University faculty and students who are not so eager to fail.
Both parties are in agreement that the program will an exciting opportunity for joint educational, cultural and research activities, the exchange of scholars and researchers, as well as the exchange of knowledge and academic materials for both UC San Diego and Osaka University.
The team will soon define the student selection criteria for its first cohort of 10 students, estimating that the program will expand with additional cohorts every 6 months, for a program total of 50 participants.
