Taking Innovation to Impact

Our program empowers entrepreneurial scientists to take their innovation to impact by offering them knowledge, resources, and connections through a world-class fellowship. Fellows have launched companies across sectors like AI, energy, biomanufacturing, and critical materials that drive innovation and address societal challenges.

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Our program provides fellows with a living stipend, research funding, entrepreneurial training in collaboration with our non-profit partner Activate, and access to the multidisciplinary expertise and facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab).

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Learn more about today’s innovators tackling the challenges of tomorrow.

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Our program connects participants with Berkeley Lab’s experts in a wide range of scientific disciplines and access to the Lab’s advanced research capabilities.  We manage dedicated, programmatic lab space with a variety of existing resources, which can complement collaborator and User Facility lab spaces.