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== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UC Berkeley Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is ranked as seen both inside and outside the "#2 university worldwide for producing venture-backed entrepreneurs" classroom. The faculty in the College of Letters & Science (SkydeckL&S)collaborated with the Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program to guide students to turn their ideas into scaleable ventures. This is possible because of seen through interactive courses like the campus's commitment L&S 5 and L&S 105, where entrepreneurs share their experiences on what it means to bringing diverse be an "entrepreneur". By connecting humanities with business, students together in and faculty from non-traditional entrepreneurial backgrounds are gaining the opportunity to understand what it means to start a venture. Outside of the classroom , the campus partners with various industries to ideate, inspire and spaces invent new forms of technologies. For example, Berkeley launched RISElab (Real-time Intelligence with Secure Execution), sponsored by IBM, Intel, GE Digital, and more, to bring together faculty and students to explore and innovate Big Data analytics. The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) fosters collaborationbetween the computer science, creating their own curriculum for entrepreneurship & tech through statistics and applied math departments between faculty and students to lead the data science revolution. Both RISElab and BIDS are just two of the Saturdja Centermany industry alliance programs that connect faculty, students and companies to cultivate faculty innovation and funding student ideas into scaleable businessesentrepreneurship. 
== Actively supporting the university technology transfer function ==
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