Andrea Belz: Difference between revisions

Belz is most known for her work on deep technology development and [[commercialization]], [[public-private partnerships]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331380730_Financing_Cascades_Sequencing_Public_and_Private_Funding_in_University_Spinoffs331380730|title=Financing Cascades: Sequencing Public and Private Funding in University Spinoffs &#124; Request PDF}}</ref> and management of internal [[research and development]] programs.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3221328 |title=Mapping the 'Valley of Death': Managing Selection and Technology Advancement in NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program |journal=IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management |doi=10.1109/TEM.2019.2904441 |pages=1-101476–1485 |date=17 April 2018 |last1=Belz |first1=Andrea |last2=Zapatero |first2=Fernando |last3=Terrile |first3=Richard |last4=Kawas |first4=Michael |last5=Giga |first5=Aleksandar|volume=68 |issue=5 |ssrn=3221328 |s2cid=197445304 }}</ref> Her work integrates [[economics]] and [[systems engineering]] with the development of novel tools. She authored a book titled ''The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Product Development''. She was a Director of Caltech laser spinoff manufacturer, Ondax until its acquisition by Coherent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.socaltech.com/ondax_names_belz_to_board/s-0033057.html|title=Ondax Names Belz To Board |website=socaltech.com |date=4 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305151004/https://www.socaltech.com/ondax_names_belz_to_board/s-0033057.html |archive-date=5 March 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://optics.org/press/4129|title=Coherent, Inc. Acquires Ondax|website=optics.org}}</ref>

Belz completed her BS degree in [[Political Science]]/Economics at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland at College Park]].<ref name=efg>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iit.edu/events/nsf-speakers-series-andrea-belz|title=NSF Speakers Series: Andrea Belz &#124; Illinois Institute of Technology|website=www.iit.edu|date=6 April 2022 }}</ref> She earned a PhD in experimental [[nuclear physics]] at the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech) and her dissertation was titled "Investigations of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering".<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Dvoredsky |first1=Andrea Paulina |title=Investigation of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering |date=2000 |publisher=California Institute of Technology |doi=10.7907/t0dm-y753 }}</ref> Later, she earned an MBA in [[Finance]] from [[Pepperdine Graziadio Business School|Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=NSF Speakers Series: Andrea Belz {{!}} Illinois Institute of Technology |url=https://www.iit.edu/events/nsf-speakers-series-andrea-belz |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=www.iit.edu |date=6 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

Belz founded the Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis (MINERVA) lab<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.usc.edu/minerva/patentopia/|title=Patentopia – Management of INnovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis (MINERVA)|website=sites.usc.edu}}</ref> at USC as a partnership between the Viterbi School of Engineering and Price School of Public Policy. Her work focuses on the intersection of government funding and the private sector in supporting entrepreneurship. Her project SBIR: Commercializing Invention and Financing Innovation (SCIFI) is an analysis of the NASA proposal database. She is the architect of Patentopia, an interface for the United States Patent and Trademark Office PatentsView database.<ref>{{cite journalbook|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10020918|title=Patentopia: A multi-stage patent extraction platform with disambiguation for certain semantic challenges |journal=2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data |date=2022 |doi=10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020918 |first1=Andrea |last1=Belz |first2=Alexandra |last2=Graddy-Reed |first3=Fnu |last3=Shweta |first4=Aleksandar |last4=Giga |first5=Shivesh Meenakshi|last5=Murali |title=2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) |chapter=Patentopia: A multi-stage patent extraction platform with disambiguation for certain semantic challenges |pages=3478–3485 |location=Osaka, Japan|isbn=978-1-6654-8045-1 |s2cid=256313635 |url=http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b404b864-ff94-4948-8817-48562774efc8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journalbook|chapter-url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4380684|title=Deterministic Bibliometric Disambiguation Challenges in Company Names |doi=10.1109/ICSC56153.2023.00047 |journal=2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Semantic Computing |location=Laguna Hills, CA, USA |date=2023 |pages=239-243239–243 |first1=Andrea|last1=Belz|first2=Alexandra|last2=Graddy-Reed|first3=FNU|last3=Shweta|first4=Alekandar|last4=Giga|first5=Shivesh Meenakshi|last5=Murali|title=2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) |chapter=Deterministic bibliometric disambiguation challenges in company names |isbn=978-1-6654-8263-9 |ssrn=4380684 |s2cid=257451811 |url=http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:19c911ff-c39c-40c2-8f92-5f8ac8bd1f73 }}</ref> She has studied the impact of gender in innovation.