Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
National Labs Entrepeneurship Academy
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) offers three Hertz Fellows per year the opportunity to participate in an intensive four-day program providing tools to commercialize their research and technologies outside the lab.
About the AcademyTAKING IDEAS BEYOND THE LAB
Originally developed for scientists at LLNL and Sandia National Laboratories, the curriculum is developed and presented by longtime LLNL partner, the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at University of California, Davis. LLNL has been hosting the academy since 2015 and has trained over 400 national lab researchers and their partners.
Partner BENEFITS
POTENTIAL FOR ONGOING COLLABORATION
- Build connections with members of the scientific and technology community
- Grow the economy by advancing the development and commercialization of scientific discoveries
- Build awareness of career interests among graduating and early career Hertz Fellows
HERTZ FELLOW BENEFITS
ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS
- Build connections with experts in the technology development space
- Learn to identify and communicate a value proposition for technology and early-stage companies
- Practice crafting and pitching their own commercialization ideas
- Broaden skills and experiences obtained during graduate training and early careers
“We know Hertz Fellows can benefit from entrepreneurship training, and we hope that it leads to continued collaboration between those Hertz Fellows and our national laboratory scientists. We see this as a win-win.”
Hannah Farquar
Academy Participants
Charles Dove
University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering
Maxwell Wang
Carnegie Mellon University, Machine Learning, Neuroscience
announcement
A Partnership to Support Scientific Entrepreneurship
In March 2024, Hertz Fellow Charles Dove, a fourth-year electrical engineering and computer science PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, became the first Hertz Fellow to attend the Entrepreneurship Academy.
OUR PARTNER
About LAwrence LIvermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a premier applied science laboratory that is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration within the Department of Energy. LLNL’s mission is strengthening national security by developing and applying cutting-edge science, technology, and engineering that respond with vision, quality, integrity, and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance.
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