The Management of INnovation, Entrepreneurial Research,
and Venture Analysis
The MINERVA Lab is an interdisciplinary team working across public policy, systems engineering, finance, economics, and computer science to study the financing of innovation. We are affiliated with and primarily funded by the NSF I-Corps Hub: West Region (NSF ENG Award #2048703) and formerly the Los Angeles Innovation Node, part of NSF's I-Corps program (NSF ENG Award #1740721).
Our work focuses on evaluating federal funding programs and private capital investment strategies to spur innovation and entrepreneurship with emphasis on deep technology ventures. We have also developed a user-friendly public tool to extract and disambiguate US patents. You can learn more about and use Patentopia here.
The lab is led by myself and Andrea Belz (USC, on leave to NSF) and includes an interdisciplinary group of students including undergraduates, masters, and doctoral students as well as post-doctoral scholars. Our faculty collaborators include Rich Terrile (JPL/CalTech) and Fernando Zapartero (Boston University) as well as our former post-doctoral scholars Lien Denoo (Tilburg University) and Aleksandar Giga (TU Delft).
Our alumni have gone on to faculty positions as well as industry including Amazon, Apple, The Analysis Group, and Google. You can see a full list of our current and former students and their placements here. We hire students twice a year in March/April and September/October. Hiring calls are disseminated to current USC students.
Related Publications & Working Papers
• Giga, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Belz, A., Terrile, R., Zapatero, F. (2021) “Helping the Little Guy: The impact of government awards on small technology firms,” Journal of Technology Transfer, Forthcoming in press, available online
• Belz, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Hanewicz, I., Terrile, R. “Gender Differences in Peer Review of Innovation” (Revise & Resubmit)
• Belz, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Zapatero, F. “The Role of Institutional Governance on Early-Stage Financing for University Spinoffs"
Our work focuses on evaluating federal funding programs and private capital investment strategies to spur innovation and entrepreneurship with emphasis on deep technology ventures. We have also developed a user-friendly public tool to extract and disambiguate US patents. You can learn more about and use Patentopia here.
The lab is led by myself and Andrea Belz (USC, on leave to NSF) and includes an interdisciplinary group of students including undergraduates, masters, and doctoral students as well as post-doctoral scholars. Our faculty collaborators include Rich Terrile (JPL/CalTech) and Fernando Zapartero (Boston University) as well as our former post-doctoral scholars Lien Denoo (Tilburg University) and Aleksandar Giga (TU Delft).
Our alumni have gone on to faculty positions as well as industry including Amazon, Apple, The Analysis Group, and Google. You can see a full list of our current and former students and their placements here. We hire students twice a year in March/April and September/October. Hiring calls are disseminated to current USC students.
Related Publications & Working Papers
• Giga, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Belz, A., Terrile, R., Zapatero, F. (2021) “Helping the Little Guy: The impact of government awards on small technology firms,” Journal of Technology Transfer, Forthcoming in press, available online
• Belz, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Hanewicz, I., Terrile, R. “Gender Differences in Peer Review of Innovation” (Revise & Resubmit)
• Belz, A., Graddy-Reed, A., Zapatero, F. “The Role of Institutional Governance on Early-Stage Financing for University Spinoffs"
