Bill Grant is the Program Manager of the Technology Management Program at University of California - Santa Barbara's (UCSB) College of Engineering. Grant facilitates intimate working luncheons, 'Leaders in Innovation' seminars, lectures, cable tv, and his "On the Edge" radio program on KCSB91.9FM. Created and hosted by Grant and UCSB students, the weekly show features successful entrepreneurs and innovators and discusses how ideas become inventions.
In 2007, Grant received the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award for his work at UCSB in creating and managing extracurricular activities that enable students to network and share knowledge and experience with successful scientists, entrepreneurs, innovators and other business experts.
We try to be very candid with our students, telling that 95% of them will never be entrepreneurs, they will not start their own companies. However, they will be project leaders, project managers, team leaders. As their influence and knowledge grows in the workforce, large company or small, they ha...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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