Niki Peterson of the UC Davis Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on preparing future entrepreneurs
For the last dozen years, the UC Davis Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has fostered hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs out of the classroom setting and into the real world. Comstock’s sat down with Senior Program Manager Niki Peterson to learn how her institute is helping turn the Capital Region into a world-class incubator for innovation.
How does our region compare as an entrepreneurship incubation site to places like Silicon Valley?
Many people are calling Davis the Palo Alto of 20 years ago because of our proximity to the capital [city] and all the great technologies being developed here. We’re really well-positioned for what’s happening now in entrepreneurship and innovation. In the Silicon Valley, the technologies are mainly in and around the computer industry. Here at UC Davis, we’re always No. 1 or No. 2 in the world for our agricultural innovations. We’re also the No. 1 school in the world for veterinarian medicine and, of course, we have our outstanding school of human medicine.
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