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Empowering USC Innovators to Make Societal Impact USC Stevens provides the USC
community with help to transform ideas into tangible societal impact.
We focus on
developing, supporting and nurturing both the innovator, and the innovation, to ensure USC researchers and
students are prepared to advance their ideas, now and in the future.
Any innovation
with potential for societal impact across the University is welcome, whether it's
through commercialization, start-up, licenses,
new products or services, or even non-profits and new organizational models. We look for ideas that meet the following criteria:
- High
novelty
- Opportunity for societal impact
- Enthusiasm of innovator/team
- Appropriate balance
between ambition and likelihood of success
Cross-Functional Teams Approach
It takes many
committed people to bring an idea to life. So, USC Stevens created a network of
those very people, structuring our team to support innovators at every stage of
advancement, and in every area needed. Selected innovators will receive
specialized support in areas like IP protection, innovation development, marketing/communications
as appropriate, with programs based on the unique needs for each.
Our first theme
area, Arts and Media, has been designed to empower innovators working such
cutting-edge arenas as video-gaming, peer-to-peer technologies, cinematic arts,
and digital entertainment, as well as those in more traditional arts and media
Stay connected
for more information on our next cross-functional team roll-out, which will be
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