With the Certificate in Technology Commercialization, USC encourages students in business, engineering, and other disciplines to experience the entire spectrum of the commercialization process, from invention and product development to technical and market feasibility analysis and business planning and venture funding.

The Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies is among the nation's leaders in entrepreneurship education and research. Its faculty -- a diverse mix of academics and entrepreneur practitioners -- together offer undergraduate and graduate programs designed to help students acquire the tools, develop the skills, and cultivate the mindset central to organizing, launching, and managing successful new ventures. The Greif Center has been labeled "one of the best entrepreneurship programs" in the country by Businessweek and has been ranked among the best by U.S. News and World Report.

The USC Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC)
The purpose of CTC is to identify, encourage, and support entrepreneurial activities among the faculty, students, and staff of the University of Southern California. CTC assists inventors and companies with IP issues, business feasibility analysis, business plan development, start-up financing, management team acquisition, and related issues.

The Southern California Innovation Project, funded by a $675,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, is a multidisciplinary, multi-campus center that will study the role of law in supporting – and sometimes inhibiting – innovation in business. Under the direction of Gillian Hadfield, the Richard L. and Antoinette S. Kirtland Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at USC, and Suzanne Scotchmer, a visiting professor of law, business and economics at USC, the interdisciplinary center will work closely with top business and legal professionals to study the processes by which businesses and legal firms generate and sustain productive creativity.