From the LA Business Journal:
The headline is encouraging with its inter-university cooperation. But the text says:
USC, UCLA and CalTech Receive $3.75 Million Federal Grant
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Southern California’s tech scene is getting federally funded. The National Science Foundation, an
independent federal agency that supports science and engineering
research, has awarded a three-year $3.75 million grant to establish an
innovation hub, or “node,” in Southern California. The Innovation Corps
program, which helps university researchers adapt their discoveries for
commercial use, will begin Sept. 1 through a joint partnership between
UCLA, CalTech and USC, which is administering the grant.
Yannis C. Yortsos, dean of USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the
grant’s principal investigator, said the money will go toward faculty
and mentorship training, research development and community events to
draw interest from local investors...
Andrea Belz, an academic director at USC Marshall School of Business
and the node’s new director, said programming will specifically focus on
developing research for the healthcare and aerospace industries though
not exclusively. She also said she expected the program’s
“hub-and-spoke” model to spark innovation at other Southern California
universities and throughout the region, no matter how risky the
technology...
Full story at http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2014/aug/26/usc-ucla-and-caltech-receive-375-million-federal-g/
At least from the description in the article, there are two junior partners in this venture and neither of them is USC.
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