 April 14, 2009
Semiconductor International
"Inlustra Starts Nonpolar GaN Production"
By David Lammers
Inlustra said it is beginning to deliver nonpolar GaN substrates to customers. Started in 2005 as a spin-out from UC Santa Barbara, the company says it has developed proprietary techniques to significantly reduce the number of defects in nonpolar GaN substrates, resulting in improved LED yields.
Image: Although conventional GaN devices are built on c-plane substrates, Inlustra is producing m-plane and a-plane (nonpolar) material.
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April 13, 2009
Compound Semiconductors Online
"UCSB Spin-Off, Inlustra Starts Nonpolar Gallium Nitride Production"
Inlustra Technologies, a California-based startup spun out from the famous gallium nitride research laboratories at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has now developed what they claim is a scalable production process for nonpolar and semipolar GaN substrates. The company also reports that it is expanding its production facilities and has recently started to fill orders from customers.
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April 13, 2009
Small Times
"Inlustra starts GaN production for LEDs"
Inlustra Technologies, a California-based startup spun out from gallium nitride (GaN) research laboratories at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has developed a scalable production process for nonpolar and semipolar GaN substrates. The company is expanding its production facilities and has recently started to fill orders from customers.
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April 13, 2009
SocialTECH.com
"Inlustra Starts Production"
Santa Barbara-based Inlustra, a firm developing Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor materials, announced this morning that the firm has begun delivering its products to customers.
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 March 26, 2009
Santa Barbara Independent
"Introducing Dura Doggie Disc -
UCSB Seniors Unleash a New Dog Toy After Taking Entrepreneurship Class"
By Sara Tan
Every dog has its day. For Chase McElroy, Raad Mobrem, and Jonathan Luna Rivera, their days are just getting started. These three UCSB seniors are the proud entrepreneurs behind Dura Doggie Disc, the “indestructible, Frisbee-toy that turns into a food and water bowl.” Bright, hardworking, and ambitious, the three 22-year-olds are attempting to take on the $20 billion dollar pet toy industry with what they believe to be an already successful product.
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Winter 2009
CoastLines Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 3
Technology Management Program Partners with One Laptop per Child
Through a partnership with the One Laptop per Child Project the UC Santa Barbara Technology Management Program provided XO laptops to a Kellogg Elementary School third-grade class. Now, the Goleta, Calif., students can communicate with Kenyan students who are also equipped with the XO laptops.
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 December 13, 2008
Ventura County Star
Stressing Global Connectivity in Goleta -
One Laptop Per Child Founder Talks to Students
By Allison Bruce
Education could be the solution to the world's biggest problems, Nicholas Negroponte said in the multipurpose room of a Goleta elementary school Friday.
Negroponte, known for starting Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and the force behind the One Laptop Per Child project, has made it a mission to get millions of inexpensive, rugged laptops into the hands of children to connect them with the world at large.
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July 5, 2008
Southern California Tech Central
Nitride Solutions Wins UCSB Start-Up Prizes
In this year’s University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Technology Management Program New Venture Competition at the end of May $25,000 was distributed between five winners in different categories. Winning $10,000 and $5,000 in the ‘Most Fundable Idea’ and ‘Dow Materials Use’ categories, respectively, was the startup Nitride Solutions of Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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 Spring 2008
New Venture Competitor Team, Green Pieces,
Captures Top Prizes for Business Plan and Sustainability
Green Pieces won 1st place, $3,000, in the William James Foundation's Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition! They also received 2nd place -- $1,000 in the separate Sustainability Prize competition.
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 March 18, 2008
New Venture Competitor Team, Nitride Solutions,
Captures No. 1 at SEED National Collegiate Forum
The event attracted 10 student teams from around the country. Judges from a variety of investment and venture capital firms gave the Best Emerging Venture Investment Opportunity award to Nitride Solutions, a product developed by UCSB student-entrepreneurs.
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March 18, 2008
Santa Barbara News-Press
UCSB Team Captures No. 1 at SEED Forum
By Steve Sinovic, News-Press Business Writer
A two-person team from UCSB won top honors at the 5th annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) National Collegiate Forum held this weekend at the Reagan Ranch Center in downtown Santa Barbara.
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January 22, 2008
Nanotechnology Now
UC Santa Barbara to Host 3rd Annual Global Energy Summit
The University of California Santa Barbara's Technology Management Program will assemble entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and senior policy makers from China, British Columbia and California at the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit on the UCSB campus, Corwin Pavilion, February 8th and 9th.
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January 22, 2008
Nano Werk
UC Santa Barbara to Host 3rd Annual Global Energy Summit
(Nanowerk News) The University of California Santa Barbara’s Technology Management Program will assemble entrepreneurs, investors, technologists and senior policy makers from China, British Columbia and California at the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit on the UCSB campus, Corwin Pavilion, February 8th and 9th.
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June 6, 2007
THE TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AT UCSB'S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING GIVES THE 2007 VENKY NARAYANAMURTI ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP AWARD TO YULUN WANG, CEO OF InTOUCH HEALTH
The Venky Narayanamurti Entrepreneurial Leadership Award is given annually to an individual who has demonstrated leadership and success in the high technology entrepreneurial community in the region...Read the Press Release (PDF)
 April 30, 2007
HEALTH CARE INVENTION WINS NEW VENTURE COMPETITION
by Benjamin Gottlieb, Daily Nexus
Medical technology took the forefront at this year's New Venture Competition at UCSB, with prizes totaling $33,000 going to three student groups that developed devices for use by doctors and hospitals...
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 April 13, 2007
CONTEST FINALISTS DISPLAY INVENTIONS
by Benjamin Gottlieb, Daily Nexus
Semi-finalists at the New Venture Competition present their projects to judges on Wednesday. Nine groups competed for five spaces in the final round, which will be held on Friday, April 27...
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March 26, 2007
WINNERS OF 2007
OLYMPUS INNOVATION AWARD PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Program Recognizes Innovative Educators from Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of California, Santa Barbara
Bill Grant, TMP Program Manager, receives award... Read the Press Release
February 11, 2007
Energy's Real Costs
Allison Bruce, Ventura County Star
February 11, 2007
A sea change is coming in how people think about energy, where it comes from and its actual costs. Facing these energy challenges and taking steps toward a truly sustainable future were part of the discussion at the Concept to Commerce: Emerging Energy Technologies Summit at UC Santa Barbara, which wrapped up on Saturday... Download Article (PDF)
February 10, 2007
Summit takes a look at a world without oil
Allison Bruce, Ventura County Star
The future of energy has to be one without oil. But what direction energy production may take depends on economic, political and environmental factors, as well as what people and businesses are willing to do... Download Article (PDF)
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May 27, 2006
"A Capital Idea"
Santa Barbara News-Press
January 29, 2006
"Emerging Energy"
Santa Barbara News-Press
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December 15, 2005
"UCSB grad's prize-winning idea earns him honors in London, too" [PDF]
Santa Barbara News-Press
November 25, 2005
"Revolutionaries of our time - Amgen director touts power of entrepreneurs" [PDF]
Pacific Coast Business Times
July 15, 2005
"What is the Latest 'Truth' You've Been Told?" [PDF]
Pacific Coast Business Times
Special Advertisement Supplement
May 22, 2005
"Out of the University, Into the Commercial World" [PDF]
Santa Barbara News-Press
Sunday Business
May 22, 2005
"A Big Vote of Confidence" [PDF]
Santa Barbara News-Press
Sunday Business
May 17, 2005
"Business Plans Bring in Bucks" [PDF]
UCSB Daily Nexus
May 13, 2005
"Creating a Competitive Plan - UCSB Students Use Mentors to Polish Pitch" [PDF]
Pacific Coast Business Times
January 27, 2005
"The Promise and the Business of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Will stem cell research offer new pathways to treatment?" [PDF]
Technology Management Media Release - Lecture, Dr. Benjamin Reubinoff
Director of Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center, Israel
"Engineering for Success" [PDF]
Convergence: The Magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara
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September 24, 2004
"UCSB Revamps Entrepreneurship Program"
Pacific Coast Business Times
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