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- **Posted:** 2025-09-02T22:24:23.000+00:00
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Now available as a free e-book for all students, faculty and staff, ‘Startup Campus’ stitches together the eras of UC Berkeley’s innovative history, from its early days to its current place as a top-ranked institution for generating new ventures and startup leaders. 

Mike Alvarez Cohen, the campus’s director of innovation ecosystem development and principal author, said it was important to convey “our public university’s immense societal benefits to California, the nation and the planet, especially these days with all the scrutiny and skepticism about American higher education.” 

Cohen views the book’s narrative sections, sidebar stories, program descriptions and chancellor’s foreword as a playbook for how other universities can think about melding teaching and research with innovation and societal benefit. 

“We knew Berkeley was punching above our weight in innovation and entrepreneurship, and it was time for the world to know,” said Laura Hassner, the campus’s executive director for innovation, entrepreneurship and the Berkeley Changemaker program.

The book is broken into six chapters. Each chronicles a different phase of Berkeley’s innovation and entrepreneurship network, from the pockets of faculty in electrical engineering and computer science who initiated a culture of innovation in the 1960s to the complex web of programs and accelerators that grew in the 2010s and the next wave of collaborations today. 

“I’m particularly proud to have been a part of the team that wrote the story about part of what makes Berkeley special,” Cohen said. “The book’s emergence, like the rise of our startup campus, was anything but a solo effort.”

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