Global CONNECT™: a network committed to growing new technology clusters worldwide



Upcoming Events

December 2009
Seventh Annual Global CONNECT™ Conference

December 2-4, Tokyo, Japan.
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Featured Past Events

Southampton-San Diego Cleantech Conference

June 4 and 5, 2009

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What Industry Wants from Universities
A Kauffman Foundation Seminar at the
University of California, San Diego

March 12 to 14, 2009
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October 2007
UK-US Workshop on the Sustainable Environment

Academics from the four universities in the SETsquared Partnership (Global CONNECT™ member), the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton, and Surrey, will spend October 30-31 with UCSD and UCI researchers to attend a workshop on the sustainble environment.
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February 2007
SETsquared Partnership Management Team Visit

In conjunction with our collaboration with the SETsquared Partnership (representing the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton, and Surrey) we will be hosting the SETsquared Management Team.

January 2007
UK Minister for Science and Technology

Lord Sainsbury, Minister for Science and Technology, travelled to San Diego in preperation of his forthcoming Review of Science and Innovation due out later this year.  Guided by the Global CONNECT™ team, Lord Sainsbury met with the key stakeholders in the genesis of the original CONNECT model so as to learn how to replicate its successes in the United Kingdom.

October-November 2006
Global Bridge Program with Taiwan

As part of our collaboration with CONNECT Taiwan and the Institute for Information Industry (III) of Taiwan, five Taiwanese high tech/life science companies presented before Springboard panels in November.

June 2006
The Venture Forum

Global CONNECT™ is partnering with Larta to bring companies from several Global CONNECT™ members, including BNSD, CONNECT New Zealand, CONNECT Taiwan (III), and the SETsquared Partnership, to this Forum in San Jose, California, June 28 and 29.
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May 2006
Global Bridge Program with UK

As part of the collaboration with the SETsquared Partnership, Mirifice Ltd will visit San Diego, and other parts of California, and present before a Springboard panel in late May.

May 2006
SETsquared Partnership UK-US Collaboration Discovery Trip

Academics from the four universities in the SETsquared Partnership (Global CONNECT™ member), the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton, and Surrey, spent an intensive week meeting with UCSD and UCI researchers to discover appropriate areas for applied research collaboration.
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April 2006
TechnoCluster Program

In a collaboration between Global CONNECT™ and Global CONNECT™ member BNSD, Korean technology transfer managers spent a week in San Diego (with bookends in Korea) benchmarking their transfer and commercialization practices against the San Diego experience.

April 2006
Global Bridge Program with Korea

Five companies from Daegu, Korea (BND, Ditto, Egis, Ondemandsoft, and Websync) visited San Diego in April and were intensively coached before presenting before Springboard panels.


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