Kathleen Allen is a professor in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where she is also the director of the Center for Technology Commercialization, which focuses on helping faculty and students commercialize the technologies they develop at USC. Allen is also the executive director of N2TEC Institute, which is bringing the wealth creation process through technology entrepreneurship to rural regions of the U.S. In addition to Launching New Ventures 4th ed., Allen is the author of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management 2nd Ed., Bringing New Technology to Market, and Growing and Managing an Entrepreneurial Business, as well as several trade Presenter biographies ©2006, The NCIIA 296 books. As an entrepreneur, Allen co-founded a real estate development company, a real estate brokerage that she eventually sold, two technology ventures, and is a director of a NYSE company.