About UsIn the 90’s, as regions around the world were looking for new models of economic growth and sustainability, they came to San Diego to understand how a relatively small town with a local economy dependent on defense, tourism, and real estate transformed itself over 25 years into one of the world’s most admired technology and life sciences clusters. At the core of this transformation was a powerful base of scientific research and a group of leaders and champions who realized that in order to compete globally, they would need to collaborate locally. The UCSD CONNECT program was pivotal in this transformation, and acted as an honest, neutral broker in facilitating critical new relationships and driving the flow of new ideas, knowledge, and partnerships among business, industry, academia, research, investors, and government. This ‘change of destiny’ inspired organizations from overseas to establish similar models that would encourage the behavior of efficient regional collaboration and thereby grow their innovation capacity. The first of these were CONNECT Scotland, and CONNECT Sweden. Global CONNECT was founded in 2003 as a sister program to the local CONNECT program with a mission to assist regions with their innovation and cluster development strategies. To further that goal, we facilitate a network of like-minded organizations focused on technology-based economic development and have bridged our communities to foster new research and business collaborations, and to provide enterprise assistance to those seeking access to new markets, alliances, talent, and investment.
Contact Us General Inquiries:Please contact rwittman@ucsd.edu Mailing Address:UCSD Extended Studies and Public Programs Overnight Deliveries: UCSD Extended Studies and Public Programs Global CONNECT 9600 North Torrey Pines Road, Building B Mail Code 0176-0 La Jolla, CA 92037 Location:Global CONNECT offices are in the Extension Building B on the main UCSD campus in La Jolla. Click here for maps and driving directions. |
 The Global CONNECT TeamGreg Horowitt Director, Global Enterprise Peter Thomas Director, Program Partnerships Nathan Owens Phone: (858) 534-8638 Email: nowens@ucsd.edu Robie Wittman Director, Program Management Phone: (858) 822-4393 Cell: (858) 220-5817 Fax: (858) 822-5152 Email: rwittman@ucsd.edu Pam Surko Director, Research Phone: (858) 822-4393 Email: psurko@ucsd.edu June Chocheles Director, Planning and Strategy Phone: (858) 822-4393 Email: jchocheles@ucsd.edu |
