UC Berkeley has chosen professor of finance Richard Lyons for the newly-created position of chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer.
Richard Lyons (pictured) has been appointed University of California (UC), Berkeley’s first chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer (CIEO), VentureBeat reported today.
Richard Lyons is currently professor of finance at the university’s Haas School of Business, following a decade-long stint as dean of the department from 2008 to 2018.
He will start as CIEO in January 2020, taking charge for the development and marketing of university innovation and entrepreneurship activities, to the benefit of its spinouts, faculty, staff and students.
In the interim, Lyons will have a transitional role as faculty assistant to the university’s vice-chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship, while he completes his autumn semester of teaching commitments.
UC Berkeley’s appointment of a CIEO fulfils one of the recommendations made in the “Entrepreneurship at Berkeley” paper, which was commissioned by the university’s former vice-chancellor for research to explore ways of improving its innovation ecosystem.
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