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Our Team
CIED Faculty Director
Dr. Manel Camps is Professor in Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology with a research program focused on the evolution of new biochemical activities, In July 2021, he was appointed Kapany Director of CIED. Learn more about the CIED Faculty Director.
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Nada Miljkovic
Nada Miljkovic is a UCSC Crown College Instructor developing many of the Crown I&E classes as well as the Lean Startup Bootcamp.
She is CEO and co-founder of GetVirtual and founder of Artist on Art, LLC
She is the Director of several nonprofits and has several radio shows. She comes to teaching after a career in project managing.
Program Manager
ABOUT
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) was formed in 1979 by Dr. Narinder Kapany and a group of UC Santa Cruz faculty. Dr. Kapany, known as the father of optic fiber, served as CIED director for seven years, and under his leadership CIED was a pioneer in entrepreneurship training and helped successfully launch several startups by UCSC faculty and alumni. Read more about the original CIED here. The success of CIED resulted in Dr. Kapany being invited to give congressional testimony to the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives, 97th Congress, on July 14, 1981, as part of the Implementation of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980.
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