Launching New Ventures Fifth Edition
Dr. Kathleen R. Allen is the author of more than fifteen books in the field of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. As a professor of entrepreneurship and the Director of the Marshall Center for Technology Commercialization at the University of Southern California, which she co-founded, Allen works with scientists and engineers to help them identify markets and applications for their technologies and to prepare them to seek funding. Her personal entrepreneurial endeavors include two successful companies in commercial real estate brokerage, development and investment, and two technology-based businesses. She is also director of a NYSE company. As co-founder and CEO of N2TEC Institute, a nonprofit organization, she is advising universities and state government entities in the northern plains states on the commercialization of energy technologies and medical devices, and assisting them in the development of commercialization teams to drive the launch of new technology ventures. Allen also serves as entrepreneur-in-residence at a major aerospace company working to develop commercial applications for space technology. Allen holds a PhD with a focus in entrepreneurship, an MBA, and an MA in Romance languages; as well as a degree in music.