IEEE Power Electronics Magazine

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur Viewpoint: IEEE Empower a Billion Lives: An Opportunity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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In 2018, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) launched a biennial global competition known as Empower a Billion Lives (EBL). As a global initiative, EBL aims to crowdsource regionally relevant innovation to accelerate deployment of energy access solutions at scale to nearly three billion people who live in severe energy poverty. Providing affordable energy access to them … [Read more...] about Entrepreneur Viewpoint: IEEE Empower a Billion Lives: An Opportunity for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Academic Entrepreneurship: The NSF I-Corps Program—Case Study

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In Part I on Academic Entrepreneurship (see IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, September 2 020, p.68), I discussed the important role faculty members play in advancing innovation given that higher education institutions provide rich soil for a significant amount of ground-breaking research to take place across many disciplines. Not to mention that academicians and their graduate … [Read more...] about Academic Entrepreneurship: The NSF I-Corps Program—Case Study