Innovation 360

The Innovation 360 workshop features a series of seven (7) modules designed to expose UCSB researchers to the practical characteristics innovations require to be successfully deployed outside of academia, whether through commercialization or "open access" adoption models.

Workshop topics include:

• How industry views academic innovations
• Developing a common language: communicating technical innovations to non-technical stakeholders
• Identifying customer/adopter interest
• Manufacturability, scalability, and soup-to-nuts sustainability
• Assessing the market/user base
• Intellectual property protection to facilitate development and adoption
• Equity in technology deployment

Each participant will be asked to identify a specific innovation of interest to them. After each workshop module, participants will apply the principles learned to their chosen innovation as a case-study in a flipped classroom format.

In 2023, there will be two cohorts:

• Innovation 360: Targeting STEM innovations
• Climate Innovation 360: Targeting climate resilience-related technologies and innovations (which will discuss open access deployment of innovations that may not need commercialization for broad deployment)