The Deep Tech Innovation Lab is on a mission to unleash the potential of emerging talent and drive advancements in deep tech innovation. Through strategic partnerships, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cutting-edge perspectives, we cultivate a diverse ecosystem where industry leaders and top graduate talent converge, propelling early-stage projects towards real-world impact and redefining the landscape of tomorrow’s technologies.
Team
Bo Heiden
Executive Director, Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley
Dr. Heiden is the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. He is also the Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at University of Gothenburg, which is a joint platform between academia and industry focused on the transformation of knowledge into wealth and welfare.
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Dr. Heiden was recently a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Standard Essential Patents. Dr. Heiden is the co-founder of the Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, the Dynamic Competition Initiative, ICM Global, and Increasing Diversity in Innovation. Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Heiden has also managed over 150 innovation projects with industry, university research institutes, healthcare providers, and start-up ventures.
Dr. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics, and his research is at the interdisciplinary interface of economics, law, and innovation, in particular, intellectual property, innovation economics, and competition policy in knowledge-intensive sectors. Before turning his focus to the fields of innovation strategy and policy, Dr. Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries. This is why he is so tall.
Matthew Rappaport
Project Manager, Deep Technology Innovation Lab
Matthew Rappaport is the General Partner of Future Frontier Capital (FFC), a pre-seed, frontier technology venture capital fund. Prior to FFC, in 2004 Matthew co-founded IP Checkups, Inc., an intellectual property strategy and software firm where he managed hundreds of innovation projects for early-stage start-ups and large corporations.
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Matthew is on the faculty at the Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership at UC Berkeley and Co-Founder and Project Manager for the Deep Tech Innovation Lab at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at the Institute for Business Innovation, at the Haas School of Business.
He has mentored and taught hundreds of graduate students from Berkeley Law, Haas School of Business, and the Fung Institute on real-world technology commercialization projects in collaboration with startups, corporate innovation departments, and research labs including Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. Matthew has been selected every year since 2011 by his peers as one of the IAM 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.
The Deep Tech Innovation Lab advances the commercialization of groundbreaking technologies that address critical global challenges. By fostering collaboration between bright, interdisciplinary minds and industry leaders, the lab accelerates the development of innovative solutions in fields like renewable energy, biotechnology, and AI. This not only contributes to technological progress but also cultivates a new generation of skilled leaders equipped to tackle future challenges. The lab’s emphasis on practical, real-world applications ensures that these advancements are not just theoretical but translate into tangible improvements across industries ultimately enhancing quality of life and driving societal progress.