Kathleen R. Allen
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Kathleen R. Allen is a professor of entrepreneurship
at the Greif Entrepreneurship Center of the Marshall School of Business at the
University of Southern California. She is the author of Entrepreneurship
and Small Business Management, 2nd Ed., Launching New Ventures, 3rd
Ed., Bringing New Technology to Market, and Growing and Managing an
Entrepreneurial Business, as well as several trade books. She is the director
of the USC Center for Technology Commercialization, which focuses on commercializing
USC’s technologies, and co-PI on a National Science Foundation grant to
build a national technology commercialization network (N2TEC) that will link
universities to share knowledge and resources, and to collaborate across geographic
boundaries to commercialize their technologies. As an entrepreneur, Allen was
active in commercial real estate development for ten years, owning two businesses,
is cofounder of two technology ventures, and is a director of a NYSE company.