USC Stevens Institute for Innovation On Tech Transfer: Understand Venture Capitalists

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation http://stevens.usc.edu/ , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies. The institute said today that it has just published a white paper http://stevens.usc.edu/docs/vcstudy.pdf focused on helping universities to improve the spinout process, finding — among other things — that universities need to "get better at gathering, filtering, translating, and packaging new ideas."

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