Given China’s emergence as a leader in high tech, the Management of Technology Program (MOT) at UC, Berkeley, created the MOT-China Fellows Program in 2003.

The MOT China Program contains two contexts

1) Offering a graduate level course MOT - Doing Business in China for Berkeley MBA, MS, and PhD students.

2) Cooperating with Chinese high tech industry and Universities to provide Executive MOT training and industry researching.

The MOT China Fellowship Program

Now it its 6th year, the MOT China Fellowship Program was created created for MBA and graduate engineering students with an interest in technology, business, and the rapid development of China's high tech economy.

Ten graduate students from the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering were selected as MOT-China Fellows for 2008-2009. Fellows enroll in the MOT course MOT - Doing Business in China in the fall semester to build knowledge and learn about Chinese business customs in preparation for the trip.

The fellowship includes an MOT organized trip to China. There is no cash award to Fellows beyond partial subsidy of travel to and within China. The Fellows will travel to Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing to meet with high tech executives, business leaders, researchers and government officials, and meet their counterparts at Chinese universities.