ACT

 

ACT SoCal

 Alliance for Commercialization of Technology
229 Bond St.
Redlands, CA 92373
(909) 435-4451

Welcome to ACT

Our Mission

ACT provides start-up technology ventures with basic and advanced business and technology assistance to advance their commercialization of innovative products and services.  

What We Do

  • Educate, Train, and Consult - The business of technology; the technologies of businesses; technology transfer; and technology-based economic development practices
  • Build - Technology enterprises through teamwork 
  • Find - Opportunities for businesses to begin; to grow; to flourish
  • Support - A network that organically links all of the elements of a technology cluster

Our Commitment to Technologies That Serve Humans

As ACT continues to evolve we are applying greater focus on innovative technologies in the realms of education and health.  We want to help innovators with technologies that can enable students, parents, and teachers to more fully participate in lifelong learning processes; and that can lead to improved healthcare delivery and disease prevention.

Our Philosophy

We live in a region that has an extraordinarily high disease burden, poor access to quality healthcare, and poor educational attainment.  Although we fully recognize that technology alone does not embody solutions to these problems, the solutions can and must leverage innovative technology applications.  If we can create and deliver innovative solutions here, we can export them anywhere in the world. We create a virtuous circle in which we can help solve our problems and create prosperity. 

ACT is...

...the only organization of its kind in the Inland Empire that is taking the human challenges of this region and turning them into opportunities for new and innovative businesses.  We are doing this in partnership with every sector of our community.


Blogs


Beacon Economics Forecast and the Way Forward

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Last week I attended the recent Beacon Economics (http://www.beaconecon.com) Riverside-San Bernardino 2011 Economic Forecast Conference hosted by the University of California Riverside Anderson School of Management (http://agsm.ucr.edu/). 

After introductions, Chris Thornberg, Founding Partner of Beacon Economics, kicked-off the meeting with a very data-saturated presentation on the state and direction of the US and California economies.  Brad Kemp, Beacon’s director of Regional Economics, followed Thornberg with an economic forecast focused on Inland Southern California.  Although many fret about the potential for a double-dip recession, the Beacon’s forecast, both nationally and regionally, is for a slow but steady recovery stretching well into 2014. 

Thornberg summed up both presentations with the conclusions that: 

1. Housing prices need to fall further 

2. Education reform (particularly in the “how” of education more than the “what”)  must be a top priority 

3. The region must be more business friendly

The Panel Discussion “The Future of Jobs in Inland Southern California” was the most interesting part of the Conference.  The Panel members were  Amro Albanna, Chairman and CEO of Innovation Economy Corporation; Gary Dymski, Professor of Economics at UC Riverside, and Steve Hoey, Associate Director CONNECT.

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A Strategy to Capitalize on Inland Southern California's Distress

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As you can see on our website here, ACT is undergoing change that I believe is at once exciting as well as potentially transformative.

Here's a little background so you can better understand what this change means.

ACT started as California State University, San Bernardino's Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization (OTTC) in 2002. The name was somewhat of a misnomer (hence the name change first - but that's another story…).  Since that time, and with financial assistance from the US Navy Office of Naval Research,  ACT assisted over 5o start-up technology companies across the nation commercialize their innovations.  Our assistance in areas of business and technology led to these companies raising $160 million in follow-on funding.  

Since ACT recently migrated off-campus as a new non-profit organization we decided to significantly change focus. First of all, our mission is more geographically localized. Instead of assisting companies across the continent, we are concentrating our efforts on technology start-ups in the Inland Southern California region.  Of equal importance, we are also shifting our technology focus to one that has the highest relevancy to the region.

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ACT Videos

Empirical Technologies Ponies Up!



ACT's client Emperical Technologies developed an innovative medical device that can wirelessly monitor beat-beat blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, respiration rate and other physiological parameters. Although the original design is for human use, look at this video to see how it is now being used in large animal veterinary medicine

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Contact Info:

Alliance for Commercialization of Technology
229 Bond St.
Redlands, CA  92373
(909) 435-4451