The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) facilitates the evaluation, patenting and licensing of inventions and discoveries made by faculty of Â鶹ӰÒôMS. Our specific objectives include:

• Providing advice and counsel to Â鶹ӰÒôMS faculty and inventors on matters pertaining to university policy on intellectual property, licensing and industry-sponsored research agreements
• Encouraging innovation and technology development and securing all necessary protection of the resulting intellectual property
• Ensuring that Â鶹ӰÒôMS research results are disseminated widely and that new technologies are translated into products and services for the public use and benefit
• Assisting Â鶹ӰÒôMS faculty and inventors to obtain patent protection for their technology
• Licensing Â鶹ӰÒôMS technologies
• Building sponsored research collaborations with industry around faculty-initiated applied research projects
• Facilitating the creation of start-up companies