Grad students signal startup sea change

Even in the Bay Area — that hotbed of entrepreneurs — there’s still room for a transformation.

Regis Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or QB3, told me the shift in entrepreneurial culture is even being seen in graduate students applying to the University of California, San Francisco. A colleague interviewing students for fall 2011 positions said every one asked about the ability to translate research out of the lab into new companies.