Management of INnovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis
(MINERVA)
Alumni have gone on to:
| Academia | Industry |
|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | Amazon |
| London School of Economics | Apple |
| Technische Universiteit Delft | IBM |
| Tilburg University | NVIDIA |
| USC | The Analysis Group |
Seeking talented undergraduates, MS, PhD, and postdoctoral fellows with backgrounds in:
- Economics
- Entrepreneurial studies
- Finance
- Public policy
- Systems engineering
- Technology management
Working papers
Belz, Andrea. Terms of Endearment: Financing Terms for Deep Technology Startups on a Crowdfunding Platform (April 26, 2020).
Denoo, Lien; van Boxstael, Anneleen; Belz, Andrea. Help, I Need Somebody, Not Just Anybody? The Role of Advisors During Technology Venture Emergence (November 28, 2019).
Belz, Andrea and Zapatero, Fernando: Impact of government grants on venture capital financing of deep technology spinoffs (Updated June, 2020).
Giga, Aleksandar; Graddy-Reed, Alexandra; Belz, Andrea; Terrile, Richard; Zapatero, Fernando; Helping the Little Guy: The Impact of Government Awards on Small Technology Firms (November 15, 2019).
Belz, Andrea; Zapatero, Fernando; Terrile, Richard; Giga, Aleksandar; Kawas, Michael; Mapping the Valley of Death: Managing Selection and Technology Advancement in NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program, Transactions in Engineering Management, in press 10.1109/TEM.2019.2904441 (2019).
Belz, Andrea and Giga, Aleksandar, Of Mice or Men: Management of Federally Funded Innovation Portfolios with Real Options Analysis, IEEE Engineering Management Review, 10.1109/EMR.2018.2847313 (2018).
Our Projects
- Accelerating Commercialization of Collegiate Engineering and Science Survey (ACCESS)
- Startup Progress in Formation and Financing after I-Corps (SPIFFI)
- SBIR: Commercialization, Invention, and Financing Innovation (SCIFI)
- ENtrepreneurial COnfidence and UNderstanding TEchnology Readiness (ENCOUNTER)
- Portfolio of Real Options of SBIRs for Probabilistic Estimate of Returns (PROSPER)
- Financing Online of UNiversity Technology And INnovative Startups (FOUNTAINS)
- Defense Advanced Experimental DEvelopment: Longitudinal Study (DAEDELUS)
Our Research Partners
- The Aerospace Corporation
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- Department of Homeland Security
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NSF I-Corps Program
- Propel(x)
- RAND Corporation
- USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences
- USC Dornsife Department of Economics
- USC Marshall School of Business
- USC Marshall’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
For more information, email us at viterbi-innovation@usc.edu.