CLICK THROUGH THE ABOVE MAP TO EXPLORE THE MULTITUDE OF POVERTY INNOVATION HUBS & RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON THE UC BERKELEY CAMPUS (Use full screen for better viewing)
The above map highlights some of the huge diversity of resources available on the UC Berkeley campus from different departments. Connecting these resources is essential and this hopes to be a case study for future innovators to know where to look for guidance. Those not affiliated with Berkeley, the purpose of this map is to show you how spread out these resources can be and give you some ideas on how to find them in your setting.
These hubs include:
UC Berkeley Startup Accelerator @ Skydeck
The purpose of the UC Berkeley Startup Accelerator (UCBSA) is to accelerate the launch of fundable startup companies with scalable business models out of UC Berkeley. It’s the successor to the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship’s Berkeley Entrepreneurship Lab (BEL). This new approach to incubation matches a small group of companies with high-quality mentors with the goal of driving the companies through that experimental, exploratory process of process of validating their product, customers and business model to prepare them to scale.
2150 Shattuck Avenue
Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability
The Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability is a collaboration of students, faculty, researchers, and staff working to improve maternal health and address the impact of population on global public health and the environment. The Center is located at the University of California, Berkeley, and works closely with leaders of U.S. and international-based organizations, as well as government officials throughout Africa and Asia. It is dedicated to developing innovations to improve reproductive health in resource-poor settings, including reliable health information systems, local access to essential technologies and guidelines for prioritizing interventions to maximize health impact. The Center assists in the implementation of family planning and maternal health programs and seeks to improve the health outcomes of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women and their families.
University Hall
Berkeley Alliance for Global Health
The new Berkeley Alliance for Global Health is poised to address these (global poverty) challenges. Comprised of two centers—the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases and the Center for Global Public Health—this innovative “discovery to delivery” platform joins quantitative biosciences and bioengineering with international field expertise in public health and health policy. Through the initiative, more than 80 investigators in 14 departments and schools are collaborating on research projects that integrate cutting-edge discovery science (including computational biology, genomics, and synthetic biology) with greater understanding of slum and refugee health, environmental disease burden, and other challenges in the developing world. The Alliance officially launched in May 2008, with a campus-wide event.
University Hall
Center for Global Public Health
The Center for Global Public Health is a multidisciplinary center at UC Berkeley that serves to synergize faculty research on critical global health issues, facilitate the training of the next generation of researchers and leaders in global public health, inform and educate the media, government, multi-lateral agencies, the general public and private sector donors about global health issues and solutions, and foster partnerships to facilitate evidence-based implementation designs that delivers measurable public health impact at the community level.
50 University Hall
Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases
The Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases seeks to accelerate the development of new low-cost drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for infectious diseases that primarily or disproportionately afflict people in developing countries. As a project of the University of California, Berkeley, the Center brings unparalleled resources for cutting-edge research to global health challenges that have been largely neglected by markets.
444A Li Ka Shing Center
Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Mission – To provide science-based leadership in the identification and implementation of sustainable development strategies, that effectively balances concerns for efficiency, environmental conservation and social equity.
101 Giannini Hall
Center for Effective Global Action
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is the University of California’s premiere center for research on global development. CEGA’s faculty affiliates use two powerful techniques—rigorous evaluation and economic analysis—to measure the impacts of large-scale social and economic development projects. The Center integrates business and economic approaches with expertise in agriculture, public health, education, and the environment. As a result, we have produced some of the most influential and policy relevant research projects in recent years, including cash incentives for women’s empowerment, low-cost water technology for rural communities, and early childhood health interventions for improved adult economic outcomes.
207 Giannini Hall
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
The University of California, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (BCGC) is advancing green chemistry through research, teaching and engagement in the interdisciplinary areas of: New Chemistries, Health and Environment, Policy and Law, and Business and Economics. Investigators in chemistry, the environmental health sciences, public policy, business, and law are developing new science and scholarship that is placing green chemistry, alongside carbon-neutral technologies, as a cornerstone of environmentally sustainable development and the green economy.
Berkeley Institute of the Environment
The Berkeley Institute of the Environment fosters communication, engagement and collaboration across environmental disciplines at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We are also working to promote the many incredible academic programs, research endeavors, events, and student group efforts focused on ensuring human well-being and species survival in the face of global change.
Berkeley Water Center
The Berkeley Water Center takes a comprehensive approach to water resources research and management that reflects the conditions of the 21st Century: variable and uncertain supply, increasing demand and inadequate structural and institutional infrastructure. We seek to develop and demonstrate the application of new concepts, information and engineering technology and computational tools that serve diverse water interests.
410 O’Brien Hall
Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology
The Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, launched in January 2010, prepares engineers and scientists — from students to seasoned professionals — with the multidisciplinary skills to lead enterprises of all scales in industry, government and the nonprofit sector.
130 Blum Hall
Blum Center for Developing Economies
Our mission is to improve the well-being of poor people in developing countries by designing, adapting and disseminating scalable and sustainable technologies and systems and by educating and inspiring a new generation of global citizens. The Blum Center addresses the needs of the poor in developing countries by leveraging UC and LBNL expertise and preparing students with the theoretical understanding, applied skills and experiential learning that enable them to become agents of change in the struggle against global poverty.
Blum Center
Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
TIER is a research group at the University of California at Berkeley, investigating the design and deployment of new technologies for emerging regions. We aim to address the challenges in bringing the Information Technology revolution to the masses of the developing regions of the world. Historically, most projects that aim to do this rely on technology that was developed for the affluent world, but these imported technologies fail to address key challenges in cost, deployment, power consumption, and support for semi- and illiterate users.
Center for Information Technology Research
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental, and health care problems.
330 Sutardja Dai Hall
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
The Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) is a unique new research, development, project implementation, and community outreach facility based at the University of California, Berkeley in the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. RAEL focuses on designing, testing, and disseminating renewable and appropriate energy systems. The laboratory’s mission is to help these technologies realize their full potential to contribute to environmentally sustainable development in both industrialized and developing nations while also addressing the cultural context and range of potential social impacts of any new technology or resource management system.
Center for Environmental Public Policy
The Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP) at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) aims to bridge the gap between environmental theory and policy implementation. It integrates interdisciplinary environmental theory and policy implementation through its seminars, workshops, and conferences. CEPP’s programs seek to educate, direct and motivate those in environmental public policy. In particular, CEPP activities are geared to help fill the local and global need for competent environmental managers who are adept at policy-making within the context of limited and varying resources.
Goldman School of Public Policy
Berkeley Institute of Design
The Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD) is a research group that fosters a deeply interdisciplinary approach to design for the 21st century, spanning human-computer interaction, mechanical design, education, architecture and art practice.
Hearst Meomorial Mining Building
LBNL Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies
Its ambitious mandate is to foster the discovery, development, and deployment of a generation of low-carbon, affordable technologies that will advance sustainable methods to fight global poverty.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Center for Responsible Business
Building upon a decade of real-world research, teaching and industry engagement, the Center for Responsible Business (CRB) is an “action-tank” that brings together students, company leaders and faculty to redefine business and create a sustainable future.
Haas School of Business
Global Social Venture Competition
The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) provides aspiring entrepreneurs with mentoring, exposure, and $50,000 in prizes to transform their ideas into businesses that will have positive real world impact. Founded by MBA students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the GSVC culminates each year with the Global Finals and Conference at Berkeley in April, gathering teams from around the world and Bay Area professionals for a day of learning and networking. GSVC has evolved into a global network supported by an international community of volunteer judges, mentors and student organizers and a partnership of premier business schools in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Haas School of Business
Cleantech to Market
Cleantech to Market (C2M) is a partnership between students, scientists, engineers, and professionals to translate cleantech research into market opportunities. In the process, C2M helps develop the next generation of innovative energy leaders.
Energy Institute at Haas School of Business
Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership
The Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership inspires the next generation of leaders to create and seize opportunities to achieve social impact across sectors. The Center conducts research on cutting edge issues including multi-sector leadership, nonprofit networks, social capital and social impact assessment.
Haas School of Business
Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) is an interdisciplinary research project that focuses on international economic competition and the development and application of advanced technologies. Founded by a group of faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1982, BRIE research concentrates on the different ways industrialized economies create competitive advantage and how these differences affect international economic and political relations.
2234 Piedmont Ave
Center for Environmental Design Research
The Center for Environmental Design Research (CEDR) fosters research in environmental planning and design, ranging from the local environments of people within buildings to region-wide ecosystems, from small details of building construction to large-scale urban planning, from the history of the built environment to the design process itself.
230 WURSTER HALL #1820
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) is to foster the beneficial and ethical understanding of intellectual property (IP) law and related fields as they affect public policy, business, science and technology.
Berkeley Law School
Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy
The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) is the hub of Berkeley Law’s research and teaching on the impact of law on business and the U.S. and global economies.
Berkeley Law School
Center for Law, Energy & The Environment
The CENTER FOR LAW, ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT (CLEE) works with government, business, and the nonprofit sector to help solve urgent environmental and energy problems. Drawing on the combined expertise of faculty and students across UC Berkeley, CLEE conducts influential research and provides public access to reliable data on such complex issues as climate change, conversion to clean energy, and water scarcity.
Berkeley Law School
Energy and Resources Group
ERG produces cutting edge research to inform scientific, policy, and business communities. ERG is an intellectual hub for research on clean energy, climate science, ecosystems and biodiversity, energy systems, international development, technology and society, and water policy.
310 Barrows Hall
Center for Globalization and Information Technology
Established in 2000, the Center for Globalization and Information Technology comprises an interdisciplinary group of faculty and students who seek to understand the social ramifications of the globalization process and information technology. No specific disciplinary approach is privileged, leaving the field open to the expertise of the scholars. Both traditional and more innovative methodologies are welcomed, including quantitative, qualitative, and interpretive research.
101 Moses Hall
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative
The Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) is a multidisciplinary network of UC Berkeley students, alumni, faculty, industry professionals, and advisors who seek to turn world-leading research into world-changing solutions by tackling tough and timely energy and environmental challenges.
Student Group – Sproul Hall
Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to Dr. Susan Addy, Assistant Project Scientist and Lecturer at UC Berkeley, for inspiring the idea and providing an amazing starting point to build on.
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