= University-Industry Collaboration =
add contentUC San Diego and the surrounding collection of companies, organizations, and business groups share a number of strong bonds. UCSD's many entrepreneurial events, like business pitch competitions, Moxie exhibitions, poster sessions, TEDx talks, and entrepreneurship workshops, attract a number of off-campus participants an observers. Participants in UCSD innovation and entrepreneurship events frequenrtly get the opportunity to network and build ties with the greater innovation community around campus. The Jacobs School of Engineering and the Rady School of Managment consistenly include industry figures as leaders and participants in their hosted events. The Dean of Engineering invites industry leaders to view exhibitions of engineering student innovation projects, and frequently hosts industry leaders in talks, conventions, and presentations. The Jacobs School also contains the Von Leibeg Center, an entrepreneurship advising center, for students, graduates, faculty, and administrators. Completely open-acess, the vLC is the epicenter of industry connection within Jacobs. Advisors within the vLC are individuals with previous executive experience within the industry, venture capitalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and concurrent industry figures, and provide valuable industry advising directly to campus innovators.
= Regional/Local Economic Development Efforts =