Your company has already met the challenges of the highly competitive SBIR and/or STTR program. PortTech Los Angeles is now offering assistance to prepare an effective Phase II proposal and commercialization plan. This workshop, presented by Tibbetts Award Advocate Dr. Marie Talnack, will provide you with the tools, techniques, plans and deliverables to meet the proposal requirements and the best practices to maximize your chance of winning an award. The Phase II workshop emphasizes developing the commercialization plan and access to resources to implement the plan.

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s first festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica on June 19-22, 2013. Head to the beach on the first weekend of summer to celebrate LA's digital innovators in tech, entertainment and startups!

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

In 2010, only 15% of computer science majors were females and 50% of girls felt that STEM was not a career path for women. These statistics inspired a few Standford Unviersity students to produce a short film that explores the topic of women in tech. This Thursday, May 16th General Assembly LA and Women in Tech will host an exclusive screening of this documentary. Following the viewing, there will be food, drinks, discussion around this particular topic and a panel of female engineers.

In collaboration with the USC School of Pharmacy, USC Stevens is hosting another event as part of our Conversations in Life Sciences series called, Driving Tech Startups – A Day in the Life of a Serial Entrepreneur. Join our conversation with Troy Wilson (CEO of Wellspring) and Karen Kerr (USC Stevens Senior Director for New Ventures and Alliances) on building a successful biotech startup.

Cluster hire of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), with more than 100 faculty, researchers and multi-disciplinary staff headlined by eminent scientists Arthur W. Toga and Paul Thompson.

Announcing the Inaugural 2013 MedTech Idol Competition for Early-Staged Medical Device Companies: Deadline for submissions June 3, 2013! The MedTech Idol Competition is for early-staged medical device companies. The purpose of the competition is to encourage medical device entrepreneurial activity by providing exposure and recognition to promising early-stage MedTech ventures.

The inaugural LA Venture Fellows Program is an opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded undergraduate programmers from USC, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, and Cal Tech to work at one of LA's hottest venture-backed start-ups this summer. Deadline to apply is Wednesday, May 15.

Trying to get a child to overcome embarrassment and fear when we need them to disclose information in a court of law can be very difficult. This is why the USC Gould School of Law and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) joined together to create the Virtual Child Witness (VCW) project that aims to train future investigative interviewers, help them ask the right questions and use the right techniques to get children to talk.

AIM: This 12-week summer program is a competitive accelerator, incubator, and mentoring program directed at launching startups. Selected startup teams will have the opportunity to compare strategies, receive mentoring from successful entrepreneurs and Marshall faculty, and develop plans for company launch.

The mandate of Health, Technology, and Engineering @ USC (HTE@USC) is to facilitate links between clinicians and engineers. On Friday, May 10th, 10am-3pm, HTE@USC will host a third Frontiers Symposium at UPC in the Forum located on the fourth floor of the Tutor Campus Center (Rm. 450).

Theodore Berger, whose “memory implants” are described by MIT Technology Review's contributing editor Jon Cohen. Berger, who is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, wants to restore the ability to create long-term memories in patients with severe memory problems by putting silicon chips inside their heads.

At the LACI Spring Showcase event on May 2nd, at 8pm, LACI will share the work and research conducted over the semester for their clients, including Cardborigami. Cardborigami, a former participant of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation Student Innovator Showcase, is one of the clients Los Angeles Community Impact (LACI) has been working with this semester.

Valter Longo, a cell biologist at the University of Southern California who studies aging, describes his research in the newest clues to a longer life. A decade earlier Longo had begun to manipulate the genes of simple organisms like single-celled yeast, creating mutations that allowed them to live longer.

Please join us on May 15th as we bring together a panel of experts made of practitioners, entrepreneurs, VCs, IT specialists, policy makers and regulators to discuss concerns, needs, limitations and opportunities contributing to this new and changing field of healthcare. The event is a collaboration between the Health System Improvement Collaborative (HSIC), the Medical Innovation Program (MIP), Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and the USC Stevens Center for Innovation.

Tara Brown, instructor of the recently held General Assembly LA Women in Tech event, is featured on Forbes for her valuable advice to women in Los Angeles looking for opportunities in the startup community.

Am I creative? (Hint: answer is yes!) How can I give my creativity a purpose? What do creative people do? To find out the answers to these questions, join this interactive workshop on April 26th at USC brought to you by PlushMoney & MoneyThink. The purpose of this interactive workshop is to help discover your true creative potential by exercising the tools necessary for creative thinking. Engage in activities that highlight problem solving and idea generation, among many more topics! We'll have a fun day filled with activities, speakers, and lots of inspiration to move forward. Attendance is free and requires RSVP by April 25, 2013.

Businessman and USC Trustee Daniel M. Tsai has made a $1.5 million gift to the USC School of Pharmacy to create a binational research center focused on one of the most promising new leads in the fight against cancer.

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 18, 2013–The second annual First Look West (FLoW), www.flow.caltech.edu competition will star university cleantech entrepreneurs whose innovations may transform our energy future. Altogether 23 teams from 14 universities across the Western Region will vie for over $150,000 in prize money. This round is the culmination of a six-month process that narrowed a field of over 50 original contestants to 23 hot contenders. The winners will then move on to the Department of Energy’s National Competition in Washington D.C., June 11 – 13, 2013.

Please join us as we welcome Adam Cheyer, co-founder and lead engineer of Siri, the mobile virtual assistant sold to Apple. Adam also co-founded Change.org, the world's most popular online petition platform, and Genetic Finance, a hedge fund utilizing a scalable machine learning network. The event will be oversubscribed, so please register at the link.

NBC Universal is looking for qualified candidates to participate in their NexTech Program starting summer of 2013 in Los Angeles. NextTech is a hands-on 2-year technology program.

We're inviting a group of developers and tech experts to join us on June 1 for National Day of Civic Hacking at the White House. At the first White House hackathon we hosted 21 participants who built apps and visualizations based on the new API for We the People -- the White House petition system. For the National Day of Civic Hacking, participants will focus on producing full, production ready apps and visualization tools that will be featured on the We the People website and made available under an open source license.

One hundred Trojans will come together on April 25th, 2013 to listen to seven student speakers share their passions, projects and experiences with their peers. TEDxTrousdale hopes to build a sense of community to share interdisciplinary ideas, showcase the talents of our student leaders, and foster the TED spirit on campus. TEDxTrousdale aims to start a dialogue between all speakers and attendees to connect our diverse student communities under the TED vision. Deadline to apply is April 18, 11:59pm.

ACCION San Diego developed a successful lending methodology for domestic microfinance in 1994 tailored to local micro-entrepreneurs in Southern California’s neighborhoods. With economic opportunity, these entrepreneurs can build assets and better provide for their families and communities. Join USC Marshall Society and Business Lab in welcoming ACCION San Diego for their Lunch & Learn Series on Monday, April 22. Complimentary lunch will be served.

The Minor in Social Entrepreneurship includes 14 units of required courses, and 7 units from among a list of electives. This minor is for students of all majors who are interested in social innovation and want to use business to solve the world’s most serious problems. Deadline to apply is May 3, 2013.

Rhythms + Visions: Expanded + Live 2 will light up the School of Cinematic Arts Complex in an evening of large exterior projections and animated sonic performances. Innovative artists Quayola & Sinigaglia, Miwa Matreyek and Charles Lindsay with video artist Chen Serfaty will perform an eclectic program of contemporary visual music and audio-visual art.

The USC School of Architecture will bring together an interdisciplinary panel of experts on sustainability and design for a provocative conversation on the Solar Decathlon competition, its implications for long-term application and the future of green living.

Join the USC Marshall School of Business in celebrating the newest entrepreneurship class with the presentation of certificates and graduation sashes.

This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. We will canvas key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, hot issues, and more. Learn the role of key players such as Los Angeles UX & UI Meetups, Startup Weekend, Creative Mornings, Maker Studios, Machinima, Nation Builder, Factual, Riot Games as well as Launchpad LA and the Accelerator / Incubator ecosystem. After class you are welcome to network with a number of prominent folks in the ecosystem.

There are all sorts of startups looking to make life easier, including a whole bunch trying to make ordering lunch a no-brainer. Chewse is the newest entrant into the food delivery game, as it seeks to provide office admins a new, easy way to get lunch catered. To do so, the company has raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that include Chris Sacca and 500 Startups.

Thomas Davenport, a thought leader in business and technology, shared his insight on emerging trends in “big” and “small” data analytics during the second USC Marshall Distinguished Speaker Seminar at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.

While USC’s robotics lab conducts cutting-edge research, an afterschool program funded by the university is studying artificial intelligence at a more elementary level — as in, elementary school. troybots, a USC Neighborhood Outreach (UNO)-funded program in partnership with the California Science Center that teaches local children how to build basic robots, is holding its first showcase on April 6.

This free class is an orientation to help you get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in Los Angeles. In this special Women's edition, we will showcase female founders that have founded amazing companies and canvas key events/meetups to attend. In edition to covering the basics, we will talk about VCs, blogs, hot issues, and other resources you should know about. Don't worry, guys are welcome too!

"Big Data" is hot, but what the heck is it really? USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Professor Dmitri Williams, along with PhD students Alex Leavitt and Josh Clark, will explain what it means and why you should care. They will explain why the CIA is interested in night elves, how you can predict the future, why you can tell a liar by their avatar's hats, and how you might position yourself to get a good job in a rapidly growing industry.

Technology media and industry experts received a peek at the future and more at “GLIMPSE: A Digital Technology Showcase,” an exclusive event, featuring cross-disciplinary research held on Jan. 29 at USC.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Second Sight's Argus II, the first treatment to give limited vision to people who are blind, involving a technology called the artificial retina.

Belinda Lange, a research scientist at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, specializes in developing game-based systems for people with neurological or physical injuries.

The same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise in helping to map how lung cancer spreads in the human body, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer Research.

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation, a university-wide resource that helps USC innovators make impact with their ideas, today announced the appointment of Jennifer Dyer as Executive Director.

Under the umbrella of Vision & Action, programming will showcase philanthropy's intersection on today's pressing issues–including gun violence, health, education, and more–and equip participants with the tools, ideas, and connections they need to invest in solutions.

Designed for business owners, executives, non-profits, students and others who want to understand the principles of Conscious Capitalism and how to apply them, the 2-day conference will feature dozens of speakers and workshop leaders from some of the most dynamic and innovative companies practicing Conscious Capitalism.

For the fourth straight year, USC has been named the No. 1 game design school in North American for its graduate program by The Princeton Review. This ranking is shared by the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) Interactive Media and Games Division and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science. USC has been ranked the number one school for game design for each year The Princeton Review has released the ranking.

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation, a university-wide resource that helps USC innovators make impact with their ideas, today announced the appointment of Jennifer Dyer as Executive Director.

Better Together seeks to bring together stakeholders in Los Angeles education for the sake of creating community, sharing new ideas, and inspiring action. We believe that while education is easily politicized, we are all on the same team and ultimately, better together. Our speakers have come from across the country and from various industries to share new insights for education from their unique lenses. We look forward to seeing you at this one-of-a-kind conference!

Companies consistently pass up or cast out those who create friction, cause insecurity among leaders, or make other employees uncomfortable. It's their loss--since those mavericks are often their best shot at true innovation

The John C Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, the University of Southern California, and the School of Cinematic Arts is proud to host REDEFINING ANIMATION: The 25th Annual Conference for the Society for Animation Studies 2013. In the ever evolving field of animation and digital arts, creative and technical innovation continues to expand the meaning of the art form and establish new ways to perceive, understand and express the world around us.

From March 1st – 31st, 2103, the USC School of Pharmacy will collect submissions of all types of research activity – from publication of journal articles, to sharing open data sets, to raising money for your research through new mechanisms such as Crowdfunding. By combining “impact points” for each type of data and its downstream impact (shares, tweets, downloads, etc.), we will produce overall and category-specific World Champions for Research Impact.

A USC-designed computer application has been deployed at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (POLA/LB) to make the local waterways safer, it was announced today. The ARMOR-PROTECT system randomizes Coast Guard patrols to thwart would-be terrorists and increase security.

OBR’s mission is to engage our academic and industry communities on-campus to foster a conversation about the health care and life sciences industry. The event will feature an exciting panel discussion with local industry experts, followed by a networking session where students can interact with industry professionals. All are welcome as we look to the future of LA as a global leader in biotech!

ABL Denim: Adaptive Jeans by Stephanie Alves are made for people with limited mobility, lack finger dexterity, or have a broken arm. Jeans can be difficult to get on and off and they can be uncomfortable for people with any of these issues. ABL Denim jeans look just as good as other premium denim lines in the stores but also combine functionality with style.

Girls in Tech (GIT) - USC will be hosting its first all-female entrepreneur panel on Friday, March 8 at 5 p.m. in KAP 156 featuring women who have started or have co-founded their own businesses. The panel will include Josie Baik, president and co-founder of CyPOP as well as Dorian Howard, USC alum and founder of the successful customizable shoe company, milk & honey! Q&A and networking opportunities will follow after the panel discussion.

 The Wunder Project maps out a detailed research plan, calls on USC and international team of medical leaders to find the cure and aims to raise $250 million in two years to ensure viability of success.

Startup Equinox, the largest for-students by-students entrepreneurship event returns to USC this spring and it's better than ever! With new speakers, new opportunities to pitch, and maybe even some friendly competition.

Hosted by the USC Institute for Global Health, Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen Fund, a social investment fund operating in India, Pakistan, and across Africa that has reached over 90 million people through its 70 portfolio companies, will challenge the audience to think about the role they can each play in building a more inclusive, healthy future for us all.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the Argus II retinal prosthesis system for use in the United States. Mark Humayun, who holds joint appointments at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, was a key member of the team that developed the device, which will be available to qualified patients at the Keck Medical Center of USC.

Create and submit a prezi inspired by one of the popular TED Talks below for a chance to be chosen by the Curator of TED and the CEO of Prezi, featured on the TED blog, and shared with the TED speaker whose talk inspired your winning prezi.

The Duke MBA Net Impact Club is hosting a one-day Sustainable Business and Social Impact Conference, focusing on four different tracks: Technology, Finance, Social, and Sustainability.

The Cleantech Goes Social Contest aims to support the development of Facebook applications and new uses of Facebook’s billion-person network to encourage adoption of clean technologies, help individuals and companies reduce their environmental impact, and engage the public in further dialogue surrounding key sustainability challenges. The winner of the contest will receive $25,000 in funding and personalized guidance from Cleantech Group and Facebook on how to maximize the impact of their idea.

Prizes this year include multiple cash awards up to $50,000 and free legal and business services from our supporting organizations.Among the categories will be social impact ventures. All applicants will have the opportunity to attend workshops where they will be guided to refine their business concept leading to their presentation including presentation slides (“pitch deck”) for the Preliminary in March. All USC students, faculty and staff are encouraged to apply.

The Week featured GLIMPSE, a showcase of USC digital technology held last week at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The story highlighted holograms of Holocaust survivors developed by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and USC’s Institute of Creative Technologies. The holographic virtual survivors will allow future generations to ask questions and learn their stories. In the next one to five years, the holograms could be set up at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

How do you figure out which of your users matter most in your social applications and games, and help that to improve social interaction and engagement in your apps? Redondo Beach-based NinjaMetrics has just scored some funding for exactly that, in the first part of a Series A funding round, worth $750,000. The new funding comes from Yuri Pikover (Xylan, 5Square, Access360), along with the Tech Coast Angels' Ace Fund, along with other angels.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA – The USC Stevens Center for Innovation, whose mission is to support the creation of start up companies and commercially viable products emerging from research across the University of Southern California, announced today that six faculty led research teams received nearly $500K in gap funding to develop and commercialize their innovations.

 he USC Viterbi School of Engineering earned top honors in two online education categories in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, it was announced January 16, 2013.

Marshall will host a three-day case competition in regards of Artificial Intelligence technology from Feb 8th to 10th.

The Evolution of Entertainment Conference (E2) is a can’t miss event for all who are interested in or currently working in the field of entertainment or new media. E2 is focused on the evolving changes that have made a tremendous impact on the business of entertainment. This event is an excellent educational and networking opportunity that will help industry newcomers and veterans alike understand the latest changes in the industry – as described by the decision makers themselves!

So you have a research idea that you think would never get funded by NIH? It's too early stage? You have no preliminary data? Meet Microryza and learn how to crowdsource funding for your research! The founders of Microryza, Cindy Wu and Denny Luan, created the platform because they themselves struggled with funding as young scientists. Microryza will be joining us for a short workshop on how to get started on Microryza and how you can leverage the crowd and the internet to get your ideas funded!

On Wednesday, January 30th in RTH 526 at 2pm, figure out if you have intellectual property and learn how to protect it. This workshop is open to anyone at USC and space is limited. Seating is on a first come, first served basis so arrive early to guarantee your seat. Light refreshments will be served. Workshop is hosted by USC Stevens.

Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first. With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies across consumer and enterprise technology.

Framed by the 2013 State of Green Business report, GreenBiz Forum defines the trends, challenges and opportunities in sustainable business today. This year, the GreenBiz Forum will feature two events in New York (Feb 19-21) and San Francisco (Feb 26-28), engaging stakeholders across industries, sectors, and regions to discuss how, and how well, companies are addressing sustainability challenges and opportunities, in a comprehensive view of the state of green business today.

Win up to $100,000 to launch your clean tech business idea! Innovations in technology will typically be the foundation of your application, but are not required to be patented at the time of submission. Transformational concepts with commercial potential are welcome as well as more formalized businesses. At least half of each team must be current undergraduate or graduate students at accredited universities.

Founded in 2002 by Anil Rathi, Skild is a platform and software designed to run competitions. It functions as “a support system for innovation,” helping brands, businesses, and non-profits design competitions that unveil the hidden potential within their own employees. With 10 years of experience so far, Skild has helped create over 120 competitions for companies and organizations such as: IBM, Viacom, Nissan, TBWA/Chiat Day, Royal Bank of Canada, the University of Southern California, and many others.

The DreamIt Health team is heading out on a six-city tour through the Northeast and Mid Atlantic to meet-and-greet with healthtech entrepreneurs. Come out and network with other healthtech entrepreneurs and get your questions answered about the DreamIt Health accelerator.

Let MIT know who you think belongs on the 2013 list of Innovators Under 35. All nominations remain confidential. They will contact the nominee directly to participate in their selection process.

Holding a spoon, a cell phone or a baby all require bending and straightening the hand and arm. Most of the time, people take the ability for granted. But when that functionality is damaged or missing, combining microsurgery with orthopaedic surgery may help.

Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found evidence that liver mitochondria in mice adapt to become better metabolizers of alcohol and increase in number after chronic exposure, which may raise the potential for free radical damage associated with aging and cancer over time.

Frances Richmond, director of the USC School of Pharmacy's regulatory science program, has been recognized with an Award for Excellence in Regulatory Affairs.

TEDxCaltech will be held at the California Institute of Technology on Friday, 18 January 2013, from 9 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. It will take ideas worth sharing from Caltech out into the world by exploring: The Brain. TEDxCaltech will be an immersive experience — on stage and off. In keeping with the spirit of TED conferences, our diverse group of speakers are asked to give the "talk of their lifetime," sharing with the audience their exciting discoveries, talents, and dreams. The audience, which is every bit as extraordinary as the speakers, will have many opportunities to mingle and connect at extended breaks, lunch, and finally a closing reception. 

Over $2 Billion in Federal Government R&D Grants Available Learn How To Prepare a Winning Proposal for Your Business

Each year the federal government awards technology grants to companies like yours to conduct research and develop innovations for the government. You can then convert the funded research project into commercial business opportunities. Attend this workshop to learn how to write successful proposals to any of the 11 government agencies that run Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

USC engineers have been at the forefront of a technology known as pulsed power for decades. Notably, Professor Martin Gundersen of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering has been developing devices that produce ultrashort, very intense electric pulses for use in fields ranging from engine research to cancer therapy.

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG), announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire Lotus Tissue Repair, Inc. of Cambridge, MA, a privately held biotechnology company developing the first and only protein replacement therapy currently being investigated for the treatment of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). DEB is a devastating orphan disease for which there is no currently approved treatment option other than palliative care. Subject to customary government approvals, Shire will purchase the company for an upfront payment and certain contingent payments based on the achievement of certain safety and development milestones.

Scott Fraser is bringing two dozen people from Caltech to his new institution, where he hopes team members will shift disciplines to solve problems. To learn more about Fraser and his decision to work at USC, click here.

Demo Day is an eagerly awaited biannual event that attracts the brightest programming and engineering students across campus, as well as the attention of leaders in the video game industry.

Karen Kerr, USC Stevens Center for Innovation's Senior Director of New Ventures and Alliances is featured as one of LA's top innovators of 2013. Karen is leading USC Stevens' into a new age of intellectual property.

Adlai Wertman, professor of clinical management and organization at the USC Marshall School of Business, was “tapped” by USC’s Torch and Tassel Chapter of the Mortar Board.

Corporate Responsibility (CR) is a broad-based movement in business that encourages companies to take responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, employees, communities & environment. Learn more from an Environmental Analyst! 

Five recent USC grads take their college entrepreneurship lessons and apply them to their own startup venture.

USC's Institute for Creative Technologies Bring Real-to-life Video Graphics

Leon Segal Ph.D., Innovation Psychologist and Scott Underwood, Design Thinker will present the lecture: “Innovationship: Collaborative Creativity by Design.” 

Please join us for the USC Stevens Center for Innovation's third annual Ideas Empowered Presentation and Pitching Event at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in Playa Vista on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.

Come mingle with SpaceX and hear a fascinating talk on the Commercialization of Space!

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation is co-sponsoring the November Lunch & Learn featuring Andy Fyfe, Community Development Coordinator at B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies and supports B Corporations and that facilitates the passage of benefit corporation legislation. This series exposes the USC community to issues of social and environmental importance and how business solutions can be used to approach these issues. Click here to learn more about future Society and Business Lab events.

From prosthetics to PTSD, Viterbi researchers advance the future of veterans’ care.

NIH awards USC team $1 million for fetal pacemaker - Professor Loeb collaborates with Keck School on 20 mm long prototype

Registration is now open and tickets are limited for the December 8th, 2012 -- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. TEDx conference! Apply for tickets by Nov. 23rd at www.tedxvillagegate.com.

Outer space isn’t exactly the first setting that comes to mind when considering the role of social workers, but USC School of Social Work Professor Lawrence Palinkas is taking the profession to new frontiers.

John Niparko has been named professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. 

Integrated circuit computer chips have been made from silicon since computing;s infancy in the 1960s. Now, thanks to a team of USC researchers, carbon nanotubes may emerge as a contender to silicon's throne. 

University Professor Hanna Damasio has received a doctora honoris causa from the prestigious Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. 

The V Foundation for Cancer Research recently honored Christina Curtis with one of only 17 2012 V Scholar grants. 

 Call for pre-proposals for Pilot Funding Program! Deadline is December 15, 2012.

When typical biopsies are performed, doctors are guessing at their target. ClariTrac provides light at the end of the needle.

VSI2 launches via a fire-side chat with Mike Abbot - Ex VP of Engineering at Twitter.

The newest building at USC is organized like a brain, with spaces for both rational inquiry and appreciation of the beautiful. It’s a fitting home for a research center that merges the latest advances in neuroscience with ancient questions of what it means to be human: What drives us to create? How do we seek meaning? Where do feelings come from?

The world's leading mass spectrometer manufacturers have agreed to license technology that enabled University of Southern California (USC) researchers to develop software that, for the first time, allows scientists to easily use and share research data collected across proprietary platforms.
 

On Tuesday, Nov. 27th, hear Venkatesh Rao's brief outline of the entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor argument, but rather than dwelling on the argument itself, he will spend the bulk of the time discussing some speculative conjectures about the relationships between personality type, capacity for true belief and entrepreneurial success.

Chewse was started by USC students, Tracy Lawrence and Gary Yao. Their website offered not only student discounts, but also foodie-inspired reviews and public transit information for those who don’t have cars and unable to go to restaurants. Chewse has grown now into a company that provides the easiest way to order catering online.

The crowdfunder.com team will give a short talk on how exactly crowdfunding for businesses works. They will provide an update on SEC regulations per the JOBS Act, and outline how USC entrepreneurs can use crowdfunding as an effective tool for raising capital to build and scale their businesses.

Mission: Admission aims to fill the college-counseling void for underserved high school students, pairing research from the USC Rossier School of Education and game design from the USC School of Cinematic Arts

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation held its sixth annual Student Innovator Showcase, giving 30 teams of students the opportunity to present their innovations and compete for $9,000 in funding.

USC Architecture professor Doris Kim Sung's TEDxUSC 2102 talk was chosen for release on TED.com's front page! In her talk, "Metal that Breathes," Sung explains why building skins should be more similar to human skins

The Lunch and Learn series exposes the USC community to issues of social and environmental importance and how business solutions can be used to approach these issues. The 2012-2013 Lunch and Learn series is titled "Can business models end poverty? Spotlight on the UN Millennium Development Goals." Lunch and Learn events are open to Marshall undergraduate and MBA students, as well as faculty, staff, and students from the greater USC community.

Contestants at the USC Stevens Center for Innovation’s sixth annual Student Innovator Showcase spent Friday pitching their inventions and business ventures to attendees and judges.

Scientists at USC have discovered a new type of drug for the treatment of ovarian cancer that works in a way that should not only decrease the number of doses that patients need to take, but also may make it effective for patients whose cancer has become drug-resistant.

Can business models END POVERTY? Spotlight on the UN Millennium Development Goals.

The Ingredients For Supremacy Are All Here. We Just Need To Step Up Our Game—Slightly.

Plastic-looking characters that do not fully blend with their surroundings can be a distraction rather than an enhancement in virtual environments. Convincing virtual characters are needed in training, educations and entertainment. So, is it possible to turn flesh into digital imagery?

The USC Stevens Center for Innovation is in the process of collecting updates on USC startups for preparation of our annual report and would greatly appreciate your help in completing a brief survey about your startup company by September 15, 2012.

The sixth annual USC Student Innovator Showcase highlights USC student creativity and breakthrough ideas from all disciplines. Each year during Trojan Family Weekend, the USC Student Innovator Showcase gives parents and students alike a glimpse at a select group of cutting-edge companies, non-profits, art projects, inventions, creative performances, and new technology produced by USC students.

Karen Kerr, Senior Director for New Ventures and Alliances and Coulter Principal Investigator is featured in a Forbes article as one of the "10 Women Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the Game in L.A." Karen has taken on the role of spearheading USC Stevens Center for Innovation’s efforts to help launch startup companies from the university’s most promising technologies. She has a long history in venture capital with a specific focus on licensing technologies from universities, and has served as U.S. head of business development for Intellectual Ventures and as managing director of ARCH Venture Partners. Early in her career, she was a Kauffman Fellow and served as a fellow and associate at Patricof & Co Ventures.

L.A.’s three prominent research universities send a range of products into the real world. CALTECH, USC and UCLA researchers ponder big questions. How would you improve cancer treatment? Can solar power be produced more efficiently?

Aaron Levie, a USC graduate who started Box, a platform that allows cloud-based file-sharing in his USC dorm room in 2005, is referenced in the article as being a self-described Jobs "wantrepreneur."

Krisztina Holly, the founding Executive Director of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation and Vice Provost for Innovation at USC since 2006, has decided to leave USC this month to pursue other opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation through a variety of independent projects in the U.S. and abroad. I would like to take this time to thank Krisztina for her service to USC, as she helped to build USC Stevens and to establish its current high visibility in the university and the nation as a leader in innovation.

Learn how executives from top Fortune 500 companies including eBay, GE, Amazon, and many more will be integrating crowdsourcing into their business practices in the next three years to solve common business problems and out-leverage competitors.

Los Angeles Social Venture Partners is pleased to announce that the application period is now open for the 2012 Social Innovation Fast Pitch program! Help us find the most innovative, effective nonprofit organizations to participate and compete for over $35,000 in awards!

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – June 27, 2012 – Today, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and 25 of Los Angeles’ entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders announced the formation of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Council on Innovation and Industry (LAMCII). Backed by a broad range of local business leaders, LAMCII was formed to focus national and worldwide attention on the thriving Innovation Economy in Greater Los Angeles and facilitate community and government actions to drive continued innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital in the region.

Caltech's Patent Law and Intellectual Property Night event will be a networking event devoted to giving their club members and campus community the opportunity to learn more about careers in IP-patent law directly from professionals in these fields.

On May 3, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched its Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules program. The program matches researchers to 58 industry compounds to help scientists find new treatments for patients.

$500K Ideas Empowered Program seeks to fund and aid the development of promising research at USC that has the potential to make an impact on the market or society either as a start-up company or as new product or service. The Ideas Empowered mentoring and funding program has just released the 2012 call for proposals - deadline is June 27, 2012.

The future of medicine is a vast, opening playing field. If we could invent a magic pill for everything, perhaps we’d never deal with disease and pain again. For now, our human bodies are fallible. And in those fallacies, there is complicated science. What does the future of medicine look like exactly? It’s a wide range of devices, platforms, therapeutics, and of course — new drugs.

Get more information about changes in the SBIR/STTR rules, sharpen your grant-writing skills and hear from entrepreneurs who won grants and get tips from active venture capitalists all in one workshop.

At the celebration of Mindshare 50th networking event in Los Angeles, Nolan Bushnell said improving intelligence doesn't require state-of-the-art gadgets or mind-altering medication--just a pair of skis and some yoga pants.

 Whether in the role of front man for world-music band Soulfege, hosting an award-winning TV show, or creating a better business model for independent artists, Derrick Ashong is just trying to communicate.

 Over 300 TEDx Organizers from around the world applied for a TEDx Gates Foundation scholarship to TEDGlobal 2012. The applicant pool was an amazing group -- narrowing it down was a challenging task!

A defining characteristic of the U.S. economy throughout its history is its rapid and sustained growth. For example, real income per person two hundred years ago was four percent of what it is today.

 As part of its commitment to cultivating engaged, informed citizens, the University of Southern California is proud to announce the launch of a new Media Institute for Social Change, a non-profit organization housed at the USC School of Cinematic Arts that focuses on how to harness the power and reach of film and television entertainment for positive social change.

VentureLab is a five-day, highly experiential and immersive program developed and designed to enhance the success of early business ideas.

 Check-in, tweet and see what's happening at TEDxUSC 2012 in real time!

Now is your chance to become actively involved in dublab’s mission of sharing progressive music, arts and culture with the world! Help us energize the universe by attending dublab’s 2012 “Creative Cultivation” fundraiser dinner, the day before TEDxUSC 2012.

In Financing Innovation: The Evolution of Startups at the University of Southern California, Richard A. Hull, Karen Kerr, and Krisztina “Z” Holly offer an interesting analysis on the history and workings of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation.

USC Stevens' Krisztina “Z” Holly was the first person to ever be called a TEDx organizer. Her event, TEDxUSC, took place on March 23, 2009, and had 1,200 attendees. Learn how she became involved.

Network and mingle with wedding & event industry professionals, sample our savory & sweet menu items and re-connect with The Fry Girl!

 A California high school student turned a $1,000 loan into a $1 million skateboarding business.

 Ryan Morris launched Salute the Brave, a clothing line designed to give back to the United States military members stationed overseas.

After signing break-out rap artist Sammy Adams, this fledgling record label and entertainment firm is hoping for more wins.

 A start-up veteran guides researchers' adventures in entrepreneurship.

 The USC School of Pharmacy welcomed more than 100 attendees on March 10 to “Entrepreneurship for Academics,” a USC Center for Excellence in Research-sponsored event designed to share ideas and inspiration with current and budding entrepreneurs.

During the event, teams made up of USC Viterbi students and faculty will present business plans for engineering innovations in hopes of receiving a $50,000 cash prize to fund their ideas. As part of the competition, innovations must address one of the National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges, the fourteen areas identified as awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century.

Join Adam Cheyer, Co-founder of Siri for the next Leap Speaker Series. 

Triptrotting, an international community connecting travelers with like-minded locals for meet ups and authentic experiences, announced today, that it has raised funding from Google Ventures, Mark Suster (LaunchpadLA), Dave McClure (500 Startups), Bill Gross (Idealab) WI Harper Group, Safa Rashtchy, Eric Chen and other angel investors bringing its total funding to $1.3 million to date.

Just last week, Secretary Steven Chu announced the winners of the Better Buildings Case Competition, part of the Energy Department's Better Buildings Challenge. University of Southern California students won the Most Innovative award! The team ran a sophisticated energy model to make recommendations for energy efficiency upgrades of the multitenant office building. Congratulations!

Fei Xiao and Anna Sergeeva, two undergrads at the University of Southern California, are building a tool to help event planners get better attendance.

Please join USC Stevens Executive Director, Marshall's EVMA, Viterbi's NOBE and eClub as they bring together entrepreneurs with different skill sets at USC to meet, break down barriers between programs and collaborate to build amazing things. 

Ambassadors to the United States representing more than 40 countries came to campus Friday to learn about innovation as part of a three-day tour of Los Angeles sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Please join USC Marshall School of Business on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 for a special forum with Eric Hirshberg, CEO of
Activision Publishing

TEDxUSC also showcases interstitial content such as musical performances, short films, and animations from students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. And we’re looking for submissions!

Are you looking to start a company but lack an engineer or a business co-founder? StartEngine, Los Angeles' largest accelerator, wants to help match you with the right co-founders and build a world class team.

A key element of the strategic vision of the university is creating scholarship with consequence. Establishing the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation five years ago was an important step towards achieving this goal.

The vast majority of economic growth in America arises from technological innovation, which depends heavily on research universities.

Students from any university in the Los Angeles area can team up and compete to see which school really has the best programmers and entrepreneurs at the first ever Trojan Hackathon! 

Ian Murphy, Director of Communications for the USC Stevens Institute addresses how companies formed from USC research have raised more than $380 million in financing over the past three years, at the height of the economic downturn.

The study found that 39 USC startups raised more than $800 million over the past 15 years and more than$380 million of that was raised in the past 3 years, at the height of the financial crisis.

Ellis Meng, from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and an Ideas Empowered finalist from 2010 participated in the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, and was quoted in the article from NRP. Meng's team is working on a new implantable device for drug delivery. 

The annual USC Student Innovator Showcase is a first glimpse at some of the most compelling innovators of the future. In total, 48 student presentations – from art to business, and technology to social sciences – will be featured at this year’s showcase. Nearly 100 students will participate in this visually engaging program.

Robots aren't known for their soft side. They build cars and defuse bombs; they don't, as a rule, make friends or deal with feelings. But a few groups of researchers around the world are working to build robots for an unusual purpose: Making emotional connections with autistic children who often struggle to interact with humans.

The Tiziano Project, started by USC Alum Andrew McGregor, won the 2011 Online Journalism Award for “Community Collaboration,” over CNN Digital and NPR’s Andy Carvin. The Tiziano Project is an all-volunteer organization that strives to develop and encourage collaborative journalism on a global scale.

Believe it or not, scientists at USC have invented a kind of seeing-eye vest. It's equipped with monitors that alert blind people as they near obstacles. And that's only one of the many innovations coming out of USC, UCLA and Caltech. In this special report, you can discover just how L.A.'s leading universitiies of innovation take great ideas born in laboratories and turn them into real businesses.

Psychologist Jose Antonio Rosa seeks to understand innovation in its purest form. In his research, he lived amongst the four billion people who sustain on less than $2 a day, communities we know little about, and witnessed the way these people make being innovative, experimental, and creative a way of life and incorporate modern market practices into the business of scavenging, whether its testing products or coming up with guarantees.

The new landmark patent reform legislation, the American Invents Act, went into full effect on March 16, 2013. To help you understand how this legislation might affect you, the USC Stevens Center prepared the following summary of highlights of the new law.

USC focuses on participating in regional innovation clusters, partnering with existing companies to commercialize federally funded research, nurturing startups, attracting and motivating commercialization talent, and educating and training a world-class workforce.

USC is launching its first science filmmaking competition today to promote student collaboration across disciplines and to communicate complex science concepts through different means.

The USC - Johnson & Johnson Translational Innovation Partnership Program seeks to further groundbreaking research in a wide range of therapeutic areas and will showcase emerging technologies or innovations with high potential for impact in life sciences.

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USC one of only two universities in the world with multiple names among world’s top innovators.

Technology Review's annual list of 35 INNOVATORS under 35 are recognizing two researchers from USC!

August 15 to Sept. 11: Exhibition Highlights New Robotics Technology in Architecture and City Building

USC Annenberg alumna Tal Flanchraych blogs on the White House website about her team’s startup, Cabulous, an online and mobile service that uses GPS technology to locate available cabs for customers, keeping people from driving their own cars when they don’t see a taxi and creating a wasteful inefficiency.

In what represents an important step toward curing HIV, a USC scientist has created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cells.

A USC researcher has opened a new window to understanding how the ocean impacts climate change.

If you're on a bicycle, your character in the "PetPal" game application is bicycling too, thanks to a new USC invention

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend.

The Lunch and Learn speaker series brings social entrepreneurs and industry leaders from local, national and international social enterprises to campus to explore solutions for issues of social and environmental impact.

Lotus Tissue Repair Developing Proprietary Technology as Therapy for Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa and Other Chronic Wound Healing Indications

Los Angeles Social Venture Partners are seeking innovative nonprofit organizations to participate in this free, two-month communication skills training program and compete for over $100,000 in awards!

Watch the surprise finale to TEDxUSC featuring Troupe Vertigo and Nightmare and the Cat and Dr. Alan Horsager's talk on how restore sight to the blind!

USC engineering researchers are further developing their software that sees the world for the blind and visually impaired.

USC Alum's Company Tracks Food on the Move

USC Professor Ellis Meng, Ph.D. and team have won commercialization support and research funding through the TATRC/Qualcomm Wireless Health Innovation Challenge.

USC spearheads a new wave of teaching -  A collaboration of ambition and innovation between USC and alum John Katzman has the university on track to become the nation’s largest not-for-profit teacher prep program by 2013.

Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists have conducted one of the first studies to interpret how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration.

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News references the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation as one of the four-university-connected institutions recently selected to participate in the Coulter Translational Research Partnership Program.

The afternoon keynote speaker was Mark Stevens, a partner at Sequoia Capital and investor in the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation.

The University of Southern California, the California Institute of Technology, and SFC Energy, Inc. today announced the execution of a license to an extensive portfolio of U.S. patents for direct methanol fuel cell technology (DMFC). The nonexclusive license to the universities’ patents will facilitate SFC Energy, Inc.’s expansion of its methanol fuel cell products into the U.S. market.

What do you get when you mix 1,200 curious audience members, 18 insightful orators, a poet, a DJ, a rock band and a circus? You get the explosion of sight, sound and thought that is TEDxUSC.

Rick Nahmias: acclaimed photographer, writer, and visual storyteller and Jennifer Pahlka: founder of Code for America.

 Continuing coverage of the April 1 video out of Mark Bolas’s MxR Lab here at ICT that turns Google’s Gmail Motion spoof into a working prototype…

The University of Southern California’s Stevens Institute for Innovation, a university-wide resource that helps USC innovators make maximum impact beyond traditional academic means, today announced it will award $439,000 in gap funding for seven breakthrough USC innovations that have a high potential to spin out within a year or two.

In an era where revolutions no longer need be televised -- now it's tweeted -- wouldn't a collaborative online video editing platform that allows producers, correspondents and reporters to create news reports in real time be a welcome addition to the insurgents' arsenal? Tom Grasty, creator of Stroome.com, talks about how Stroome was used in the Egyptian revolution.

USC researcher has a study published in Science Translational Medicine focusing on a group of 99 Ecuadorians -- described as being of "severe short stature." The mechanisms that stunt their growth could potentially prevent cancer and diabetes, according to the findings.

OnGreen, the leading online marketplace for clean tech investment, announced today it has entered into a marketing partnership with the University of Southern California’s Stevens Institute for Innovation (USC Stevens) to include USC’s patented technologies with potential clean tech applications and commercialization on its website. OnGreen will host USC’s patents on OGPX, its Patent Exchange platform. OnGreen received non-exclusive rights to assist in marketing USC’s cleantech-related patents worldwide.

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TEDxUSC 2011 will take place on Tuesday April 12, 2010, in the Bovard Auditorium at USC.

More information: www.tedxusc.com

Business-plan competitions give people a chance to start companies — or at least make connections — while still in college.

Groundbreaking research by Keck School of Medicine of USC scholars has been selected as one of Science magazine’s top 10 breakthroughs of 2010.

An essay written by Krisztina “Z” Holly published in the Strategy+Business best business books 2010 issue details how innovation is a social act that involves individuals, organizations, and society as a whole.

Recruiting top faculty from its media, engineering and cinema programs, USC is starting a new social technology laboratory with a focus on big-ticket issues in digital culture.

USC's Krisztina Holly has the challenge of turning professors into capitalists.

Thanks to the TEDxUSC event, Trina Hovespain was able to meet the producer of CNN iReport and share her story and creation of "Cardborigami" with Christopher Dawson from Impact Your World.

Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" competition winners were announced on September 29, 2010.  University of Southern California students won the $20,000 Grand Prize from their game, "Trainer."

USC has many resources to encourage, support and develop innovation. The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation was founded in 2004 to promote and incubate innovation at USC among the faculty and students.

On behalf of the U.S Office of Naval Research and Iridescent, it is my great pleasure to invite you to the launch of a unique science center for the community - the Iridescent Science Studio.

The 2010 USC Student Innovator Showcase and Competition, presented by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, again has provided an advance look at tomorrow’s ideas, inventions, social activism and businesses - as envisioned by students from every corner of the university.

While music education has long been built on the personal relationship between teacher and student, new technology is allowing lessons to grow beyond the face time necessary in the past. Today, the USC Thornton School of Music will co-host a vocal arts master class with the Manhattan School of Music in an Internet2 video teleconference.

Social Innovation Fast Pitch is a two-month training and mentoring program for innovative nonprofits that are effecting social change in Greater Los Angeles, that culminates in the Social Innovation Fast Pitch Event and Showcase on October 21, 2010.
 

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announced a new executive team, demonstrating USC's commitment to speeding up the transition of new ideas to market for societal impact. The new structure focuses on business development, translating technologies into practical application, and encouraging the private sector to work with USC.

The USC Student Innovator Showcase gives students from all corners of the university – from interactive media to public policy, education to engineering, to life sciences and the environment – the opportunity to present their breakthrough ideas. Every year, hundreds of students from all over campus participate in this highly interactive, visually engaging showcase

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Presented by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, the university-wide USC Student Innovator Showcase gives parents and students a highly interactive glimpse into the imaginations of USC student innovators, and a sneak peak at tomorrow's world. The showcase is hosted each year during the opening day of Trojan Parent's weekend and is followed by an awards reception in Hahn Plaza at Tommy Trojan.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently completed four regional forums held at USC, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Michigan and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

 An article in the June 27 New York Times Sunday Business section ("The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus") highlighted a proposal I wrote for the Obama administration's 2011 federal budget designed to accelerate the movement of innovative research from university campuses to the marketplace.

Published in the New York Times, Bob Tedeschi discusses the advancement of innovation on college campuses, including the University of Southern California. The story highlights USC’s efforts in innovation in the same breath as those of other leaders like the MIT Deshpande Center and the von Liebig Center at UCSD.

While in New York City last month, Krisztina Holly was interviewed by Big Think, an online news and commentary portal. The interview focused on the future of the US major research university. Read and watch the interview now.

University research historically forms the foundation for many of the most significant U.S. technological advancements and industries—think biotechnology and the Internet, to name just a few notable examples. Yet many more ideas are left on the shelves and in the laboratories of universities across the country.

Read Krisztina Holly’s latest Huffington Post column where she discusses what should be used as the appropriate measurements of innovativeness – arguing it’s not patent volume, but rather how many ideas we're sharing and the impact we're making.

On August 30, 2010 the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation will host a celebration of creativity and imagination for the USC community. The USC Student Innovators Resource Faire will give student innovators the opportunity to meet and greet with their peers, talks about their ideas and learn about the programs USC is developing to help students make impact.

“Ideas Empowered” Program provides $50k and mentoring for proof-of-concept and prototype development.

In March, the University of Southern California licensed a significant portfolio of intellectual property assets, comprising 11 issued United States patents from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. The license allows for continued use and development of the technologies for academic purposes, both at USC and elsewhere.

Internet2 today announced the 2010 winners of its Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Award.

Four applications share the award this year, including: EchoDamp, a multi-channel audio mixer and echo controller for videoconference-based musical and other collaboration from the USC Thornton School of Music among others.

This week, the University of Southern California announced a first-of-its-kind Diploma in Innovation Program for Ph.D. students. It's a highly selective, 12-unit course of study within the USC Graduate School designed to complement the students' disciplinary training with practical skills and creative perspectives to help them make maximum impact with their ideas.

Students and faculty demonstrate the fresh thinking taking place in technology, entertainment and design at the second TEDxUSC Ideas Empowered conference.

This column discusses a specific proposal for how the federal government can better catalyze economic and societal impact through ideas generated at major research universities. In the column, Holly outlines the IMPACT proposal, a pilot initiative that would invest a small amount of federal funding to coax existing research results into the U.S. commercial marketplace through ten local demonstration sites. Funding would equal $2 million per year, per university, for five years. These local sites would nurture a culture of entrepreneurship within each university, create and enhance the innovation ecosystem around each university, and provide the resources necessary for researchers to effectively translate their ideas into societal impact. The three key components of each program would be: gap funding, community-building, and mentoring and education, though other aspects are welcome. The results would be measurable, reproducible, and scaleable.

Some people are annoyed by upspeak: the habit of making a sentence sound like a question?

On April 13, 2010 TEDxUSC returned to the University of Southern California. TEDxUSC 2010 saw a surprise presenter line-up that fascinated and delighted guests, with mind-blowing technology demos, captivating talks, and stirring musical performances.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Paul Debevec, associate director, graphics research at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Tim Hawkins of LightStage LLC, John Monos of Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Mark Sagar of WETA Digital, will be honored with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award® for “the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures.”

In the not-so-distant future, the world may have a new model for carbon offsetting, inexpensive emergency shelters based on the principles of origami and robotic assistants for people with disabilities.

Spring boarding on the theme, “The Creative Campus,” the university-wide USC Student Innovator Showcase, presented by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, gave parents and students a highly interactive glimpse into the imaginations of USC student innovators, and a sneak peak at tomorrow's world.

What do an autonomous underwater vehicle, a nonprofit, community service project committed to creating groundbreaking open source software for the disabled community, and a massive multi-player game played via cell phone all have in common?

Sergey Nuzhdin, professor of molecular biology at USC College, has been awarded a $563,000 stimulus grant to purchase an Illumina/Solexa Genome Sequencer.

Social entrepreneurs compete for up to $20,000 in funding!

Early-bird tickets are available for $50.

The Social Innovation Fast Pitch event the culmination of a free two-month training and mentoring program for innovative nonprofits that are effecting social change in Greater LA. The goal of the program is to build the capacity of, and create visibility for, local nonprofits and the social entrepreneurs who lead them. Leaders from 22 organizations participate in the program and receive training, feedback and mentoring on how to succinctly and powerfully “tell their story.” Through the process, they build valuable cross-sector relationships.

College students are pouring onto campuses across the country. This annual ritual arrives with an important set of questions for these emerging leaders: What do you want to get out of your college experience? What kind of leader do you want to be when you graduate? What contributions do you want to make to the world around you?

The USC Student Innovator Showcase and competition gives parents and students a highly interactive glimpse into the imaginations of USC student innovators, and a sneak peak at tomorrow's world. The showcase is hosted each year Trousdale Parkway during the opening day of Trojan Parent's weekend and is followed by an awards reception. 

All incoming and current students are invited to meet other student innovators and learn about the opportunities and resources available to help you make an impact. Find out more about programs such as the USC Innovation Driven Entrepreneurial Association (USC IDEAs), USC New Venture Competition, and USC Global Impact.

ICT’s 3D Teleconferencing Display is being showcased at the SIGGRAPH-09 Emerging Technologies Exhibit. The system, also known as HeadSPIN, is profiled in the August issue of Forbes Magazine and in MIT’s Technology Review.

An annual outreach program run by USC’s Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and Simulations is helping shape the future of computational science by encouraging members of underrepresented groups to pursue graduate work and research in scientific computing.

Recently, it has become more widely acknowledged that long-term economic recovery and growth in this country isn’t going to come in the form of bailouts or stimulus packages, but instead in our ability to innovate and create new high-growth businesses. A newly released study from the Kauffman Foundation, "The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur," offers insight into the lives high-growth founders' motivations and the socio-economic, educational, and famillial backgrounds.

The Social Innovation Fast Pitch is a two-month training and mentoring program for innovative nonprofits that are effecting social change in Greater Los Angeles, culminating in the Social Innovation Fast Pitch and Showcase on November 11, 2009.

Large software companies are increasingly relying on fostering communities and nurture business ecosystems to be successful. Such ecosystems create business opportunities for entrepreneurs to innovate and be part of the value chain.

Co Founders Stephen Lizcano and Michael Fitzgibbons were awarded a $5,000 Arbitech Jumpstart Feasibility Award from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the 2009 New Venture Competition.

It’s been said that good ideas are infectious. In the case of Stroome, the old adage may just be true. Developed by a group of graduate students at USC’s Charles Annenberg Weingarten Program on Online Communities in the fall of 2009, Stroome addressed a real pain in the digital marketplace.

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch Competition in Orange County is a "must attend" event for all entrepreneurs who are looking to jump-start their entrepreneurial dreams...

The Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch Competitions is a series of "must attend" events for all entrepreneurs who are looking to jump-start their entrepreneurial dreams, and for investors seeking to hear about the latest in innovation in Southern California.

The University of Southern California (USC) and Nokia Research Center (NRC) Hollywood today announced a research collaboration framework agreement that centers on advanced mobile user experiences. The umbrella framework agreement allows Nokia and USC to work together on multiple projects in a variety of areas and will streamline the process for commercializing USC inventions. 

USC researchers have identified a new drug compound that appears to target tumor cells and surrounding blood vessels without the negative side effects typically associated with Cox-2 inhibitors.

New stem cell research holds great promise for lupus patients, said Songtao Shi, associate professor at the USC School of Dentistry.

Members of the USC Board of Trustees and the Keck School of Medicine Board of Overseers gathered with university officers and others to celebrate the university’s acquisition of two hospitals.

The $787 billion federal economic stimulus package provides more than $43 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, opening a major door for new university research initiatives, according to Donald L. Paul, executive director of the USC Energy Institute.

Speed dating without romance is like a presentation without Powerpoint: unusual, but not without potential.

 Join USC IDEAs (Innovation Driven Entrepreneurial Association) in welcoming author and New York Times reporter Jim Flanigan for an exploration of the insights gained through decades of reporting on the region's economy.

Tammie Akiyoshi, nursing director at the University Park Health Center, was honored with an international award at the annual meeting of the national Society for Adolescent Medicine held at the Century Plaza Hotel.

 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh is a recipient of the Association of Computing Machinery’s 2008 Software Systems Award.

USC has recruited five leading interdisciplinary scholars as part of its ongoing initiative to attract a dozen accomplished researchers, it was announced by Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias on behalf of President Steven B. Sample.

USC’s newest employees got a taste of Trojan hospitality at picnic celebrations welcoming USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital into the family.

Fruit flies may be small enough to squish with your finger when they invade your kitchen, but these tiny creatures may soon play an important role in answering a question: Why does one person live longer than another?

The university plays host to an experimental conference that embraces the unexamined.

Interactive technology will help soldiers recognize and react to improvised explosive devices, the leading cause of casualties in Iraq.

USC and the prestigious TED conference have partnered to deliver an independently organized TED event at USC. TEDx USC will stay true to the spirit of the TED Conference – hosting the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, and challenging them to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes or less.

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation recently released a white paper detailing the findings of a national survey exploring the issues affecting university–venture capital (VC) relations in an effort to better understand – and ultimately improve – the spinout process for all of the stakeholders involved.

USC electrical engineers attempt to create cortical neurons that can communicate with each other.

February 5, 2009. Judith Estrin comes to USC to speak about her experieces as an entrepreneur, business woman, her recent title "Closing the Innovation Gap" and the importance of creativity and collaboration in innovation.

Freshman Academy students dive into basic concepts involving engineering and applied sciences.

Business and legal scholars explore reform in increasingly competitive markets during an event sponsored by USC Law.

In light of the current economic turmoil, Krisztina 'Z' Holly asks not whether there is such a thing as “too big to fail”, but rather – how to avoid ending up in similar situations in the future?

USC and Cambridge biologists measure expression of chosen gene at every point and time of a fly’s life. The method has many potential applications.

School of Pharmacy team receives the best practices award for work in safety net clinics.

The Global Impact Program empowers USC students to use innovation and entrepreneurship to improve the quality of life for many people in developing countries.

USC Interactive Media professor and director of USC's Innovation Lab, Chris Swain was recently interviewed by Forbes to discuss everything from how digital distribution will transform the games industry to whether the games business can learn from Hollywood.

Leading E-Tailer and Authors Partner to Promote "Make or Break" Reality Behind High Performance Company Culture

Presented by the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, the university-wide showcase offered parents and students an interactive glimpse into the imaginations of USC student innovators and a sneak peek at the world of tomorrow.

Game design has helped rekindle interest in computer science and become a hot new major at more than 200 schools across the country, according to the Entertainment Software Assn., a trade group.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a breakthrough in computer-generated music that involves generating harmonies in a number of specific styles for any melody.

In a clever and interesting take on Manny Ramirez – as most innovative player! – Krisztina 'Z' Holly reminds readers about how important “play” is to the innovation process.

Check out what 41 student presenters showcased at the 2008 USC Student Innovator Showcase.

Five second-year medical students at USC's Keck School of Medicine spent six weeks of their summer teaching kids in India about the dangers of a new and deadly from of chewing tobacco called gutka. 

Two years in, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation " a licensing office that is itself a startup " has expanded the vision of a traditional technology transfer office to encourage and entice both faculty and students to dream big.

The MatchYard beta community has spoken, and with your feedback and use, USC Stevens has launched some great new features on MatchYard! 

Emily Kemper is a master's student in the USC School of Architecture focusing on sustainable development. She recently attended the 2008 Gravity Free Conference in Chicago, IL. 

The story of a Hungarian refugee  who demonstrates the essential characteristics of innovators: unshakable optimism and the courage to take risks. 

Emily Kemper blogs live from the 2008 GRAVITY FREE Conference in Chicago, IL.

Project:Possibility, a non-profit organization out of the University of Southern California that strives to create free and accessible software for people with disabilities, has unveiled what happens when altruism and expertise unite.

Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen are USC alumni turning the gaming industry on its ear. Variety has names them one of the '10 Innovators to Watch'.

After two decades of watching their neighbors in Silicon Valley attract more venture capital investment than anywhere else in the US, companies in southern California are making a comeback.

How do technological innovation and robust markets tend to fix a lot of problems that seem unsolvable? Six top innovators talk about how innovation can be measured.

Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation and the executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation has been selected as a member of the Showoff Selection Panel at Twiistup 4 in July.

The British Consulate-General in Los Angeles is pleased to announce University of Southern California (USC) student Katrina Chan as the winner of the Click for Change: Educate Africa competition, which highlighted the use of new media in public diplomacy.

A USC Viterbi School of Engineering computer science graduate student has mobilized classmates to work as volunteer programmers who write software to help people with medical problems.

Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation speaks to supporters about the success of the department's inaugural year.

If the world is going to sharply reduce the amount of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by midcentury, then many businesses will have to go carbon neutral, bringing their net emissions of the greenhouse gas to zero. But some could go even further by removing more CO2 than they produce. Academic and industrial labs worldwide, researchers are working on technologies to reach that goal.

Big Stage, a USC Start-up, based on Prf. Gerard Medionis technology, today launched their partnership with Sony/BMG to "Big Stage-enable" Michael Jackson's Thriller video.

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation released the beta version of its new Facebook application MatchYard in late February 2008, which it hopes will enable interdepartmental and interdisciplinary students to come together to develop future programs for USC students interested in innovation.

Kellee Santiago, President of thatgamecompany, spoke with Logan Ward from Popular Mechanics about the success of their debut commercial title 'flOw', where the ideas came from, and the future direction of the gaming industry.

Kellee Santiago and Jenova Chen, two USC alums were honored for thatgamecompany's debut title "flOw" at the 8th Annual Game Developers Conference.

Ronald Nguyen was awarded the Most Innovative Award at the USC School of Dentistry's annual Research Day 2008.

If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere %ue2%u20ac and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.

Syncromatics Corporation, a leading provider of bus tracking systems for transit agencies and universities, was selected as the winner of the Lexus Transportation Award in the 2007 California Clean Tech Open.

thatgamecompanys PS3 game flOw will compete amongst development communitys  favorite 2007 video games for the industrys only open peer-based awards

Thanks to the creativity and pragmatism of USC innovator Dr. Ted Berger, intelligent cameras and microphones now aid law enforcement in their quest to protect those living in urban cities. Recently introduced in Compton, CA, SENTRI is a system of cameras and microphones that have the ability to pinpoint the source of a gunshot, aim the camera at the source, and begin sending video to the local police -- all in less than half a second. SENTRI enables law enforcement to increase the safety of both urban residents and police in high-crime neighborhoods.

Recent shifts in the gaming landscape have made it easier for small companies to have a big impact.

As talks between screenwriters and producers reach a stalemate, there's a lot more to worry about than finding ways to monetize content

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced that it will partner with the University of Southern Californias (USC) Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute to develop and commercialize new technology to transform carbon dioxide into clean-burning alternative fuels.

In an unprecedented collaboration between USC, Caltech and UCLA, the three universities joined forces with Entretech to present the first ever "First Look LA," a unique, invitation-only sneak peek at some of the most promising research and emerging startup opportunities from LA's premier research institutions, never before been seen by investors. Hosted at USC on November 7, 2007, this was the first time the three major research universities worked together collaboratively in such a significant way.

The Marshall School of Business Lloyd Greif Entrepreneur Program was recently ranked No. 1 by the Princeton Review.

Michael Aherne's invention defeats the gravity of the moon. Kaveh Motamed's deflects the gravity of the Earth.

And tucked between Aherne's home-brew lunar lander and Motamed's do-it-yourself pelvis protector Thursday were three dozen other inventions -- some even more far-out, and others more down-to-earth.

It was USC's first student innovator showcase, and fledgling entrepreneurs...

Fifty years to the day after Sputnik launched the Space Race, an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, engineers, academics, astronauts and not a few dreamers gathered in a Bel-Air hotel to hear about the next Space Race, in which commercial companies bring thousands of visitors to the edge of the void, and beyond, and make money doing it.

In a move that demonstrates the University of Southern Californias strengthened commitment to advancing breakthrough research in the biosciences, the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation announced today the opening of an office in the new Harlyne Norris Tower at USCs Health Sciences Campus (HSC).

Want to amp up the innovation in your classes? The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation is launching the "Innovation Inside" Curriculum Fund, a new curriculum program for all USC faculty members interested in broadening the spirit of innovation in students.

Midori Goto, holder of the Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin at USC, is among four international figures designated as United Nations Messengers of Peace by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The USC Stevens Legal Office Hours Program provides strategic legal guidance on a complementary basis to USC innovators and start-up companies. USC innovators participating in the program have access to corporate and intellectual property attorneys that provide invaluable assistance by acting as sounding boards for both business and legal issues.

Geosemble Technologies, Inc., has won a Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation for the application of satellite image and map fusion technologies to its GeoPrism system of Direct Marketing.

Aguru Images, Inc. announced today that it has licensed Light Stage and Linear Light Source technologies developed at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT).

Innovation at USC includes advancements in every discipline from cinematic arts, music and social sciences to information technology, engineering and life sciences.

University of Southern California officials say they have a new way of developing creative ideas that their students and faculty dream up. School officials announced Wednesday that USC is the first major research university with an institute that acts as a university-wide, centralized hub for nurturing inventions as well as inventors.

Krisztina Holly is a woman on a mission. The founding director of the prestigious Deshpande Center%ue2%u20acwhich, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had funded research and connected MIT's innovators with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to make ideas a commercial reality%ue2%u20acleft the East Coast last year for the sunnier shores of Los Angeles. Her new focus? To change the way the University of Southern California thinks about commercializing innovation, as vice-provost and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, which officially opens for business Mar. 28.

Tower and his team have shown that genes known to increase longevity always affect male and female flies differently.

USC Viterbi engineer Yan Xiao develop new uses for one of the worlds oldest materials.

Development expert Joseph Koepnick among four new staff members at USC Stevens will help faculty, researchers and students take ideas to market.

The faculty initiative is designed to elevate scholarly research throughout the university and award fellowships to USC faculty.

Four savvy entrepreneurs headline an event exploring the evolving marketplace.

The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute for Applied Gerontology will focus on needs of low-income and minority communities.

Fueled by a record-breaking donation from the Lucasfilm Foundation, USC is defining the role of sound and image in education and entertainment, establishing itself as the vanguard of cinematic arts.

Its not as small as you think, but biomedical nanoscience may be just the right size to take on the biggest bully in human biology. Were talking cancer with a capital C.

Archaeology majors reexamine an overlooked excavation first explored nearly 40 years ago.

Seniors project compares the video game industry and gaming cultures of U.S. and Japan.

Rolling three events into one, the Festival of Scholarly Work focuses on creativity.

Meeting of industry, government and academic leaders at a USC workshop focuses on new non-invasive medical imaging techniques.

Trader Joes CEO outlines advantages of the USC Marshall Undergraduate Mentoring Program.

Caregiving expert Shawn Herz charts strategies for service and support of people living with dementia.

Recognized for their potential, two assistant professors receive Early Career awards from the National Science Foundation.

Turned off by rhetoric, two USC College students bridge politics and academia by creating a new Web site.

Asvice provost and executive director of USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, Krisztina Holly works with academic units across USC to identify promising innovations and innovators, and to help faculty and students move their ideas into the marketplace.

As surgeries continue to rise, a company develops a gender-specific joint replacement better suited for a womans anatomy.

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation is actively looking for enthusiastic, passionate and innovative talent to join our dedicated team.