Venture Acceleration Initiative

Institute for Energy Efficiency- The new UC Santa Barbara Institute for Energy Efficiency aims to:

• Leverage and accelerate extant research, and foster new research initiatives, to develop technologies that substantially increase energy efficiency in supplanting current technologies;
• Facilitate and accelerate the commercialization and globalization of those energy-efficient technologies; and
• Lead global thought in energy efficiency through international conferences and symposia, residencies, comprehensive external communications, and staffing the Institute with leaders in the field.

Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies- The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) is a unique and powerful alliance between Academia, Industry and the Army, led by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Created in 2003 to accelerate the technological and scientific transformation of the Army, ICB research is driven by more than 50 premier faculty and over 150 researchers, working together as interdisciplinary teams of molecular biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers.

Materials Research Lab- The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is an NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. Its primary role is to support interdisciplinary research, training and education through the study of materials with chemical and structural complexity. These materials range from self-assembling polymers to atomically layered semiconductor materials and have the common theme that multiple length-scales play an important role in their physical properties. Application of the diverse set of materials studied at the UC Santa Barbara MRL includes new semiconductors for microelectronics, novel nanostructures for high-speed communication devices and advanced polymeric materials.

Media Arts and Technology- Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a trans-disciplinary program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, and electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. MAT research interests include: transarchitectures and worldmaking, virtual and mixed realities, intelligent space and interactive/transactive installations, electronic and generative music synthesis, multi-channel spatialized sound, human-computer interaction, motion-capture and distributed sensing, digital signal processing, wireless broadband, algorithmic morphogenesis, digital sculpture and robotics, and more.

Stem Cell Center- see Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology (MCDB) website.

Solid State Lighting and Energy Center-The Solid State Lighting & Energy Center (SSLEC) is focused on advancing new semiconductor-based energy efficient lighting and display technologies. SSLEC's researchers will develop new materials, devices and advanced fabrication technologies for consumer electronics and energy. The Center will focus on energy efficiency; solid state lighting; power switching; and clean energy.

The Ventura Incubator- The Ventura Incubator is in development therefore High-Tech start-ups are encouraged to provide input into the development of this program.