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'''Spark SC '''serves as the main entrepreneurship, innovation, and tech student organization campus. They ignite innovation by empowering students to develop their entrepreneurial potential and by fostering collaboration within the USC and Los Angeles community. Spark does this by exposing USC students of all majors and backgrounds to entrepreneurial thinking and innovative problem solving, giving students the confidence to pursue their entrepreneurial endeavors, contributing to the growing momentum of Los Angeles entrepreneurship, and connecting industry leaders and experienced entrepreneurs to the USC community.
'''LavaLab '''is another student organization on USC's campus. They are a student-run, product incubator where every semester, a new cohort of visionary designers, developers, and project managers build tomorrow’s startups, today. In LavaLab, students get the opportunity to ideate, design, and execute their ideas in an actual startup. At the end of the semester, teams in LavaLab pitch to industry venture capitalists for the chance to get feedback and potential funding on their projects.
'''The Center for Technology Commercialization''' (CTC) at USC Marshall School of Business has several innovation and entrepreneurship programs for students. *'''MBA Commercialization Teams''': Through '''''the Technology Feasibility Course''''', '''''the Ideas Empowered Program''''', and by special request from researchers, CTC recruits MBA students to join researchers to conduct technology/market roadmaps, feasibility studies, and business design. *'''Internships''': Graduate and undergraduate students can apply for internships in startups through CTC’s partnership with '''''the Business Technology Center''''' of the County of Los Angeles, and with USC alumni.