UC Davis, one of the less prominent UC campuses located near Sacramento had a Life Sciences Summit. It was a conference about the working relationship between the university and the private sector to establish a growing biotechnology industry in the Sacramento area. It was about the science tools and talent the university has at its disposal, but—even more prominently—it was ...

I’ve been up at the state capitol the last couple of days, and, no, I didn’t spot our celebrity governor. But you do wonder if you’re going to run into “Arnold”—everybody calls him that—in the elevator. On day one I went to the Life Science Day in the Capitol. The California Health Institute, a biotech promotion organization, was lobbying the ...

Philanthropy Journal – newsarticle Boy, this guy, Todd Cohen, is out to be the gadfly of the charity industry. He’s really taking charities and foundations to task for being risk aversive and uncreatinve. I like this guy! …running a business (charity) can be tough in a mean marketplace in which donors, funders and charity support groups are mired in pet ...

Google, a company that doesn’t let grass grow under its feet, keeps an internal list of “top 100 ideas” generated by its staff. The top execs at Google track the list. Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, addressing a technology conference in Monterey, California, on Saturday, said they encourage their employees to pursue their own ideas and projects. The ...