A number of universities have entrepreneurship programs or departments that are separate and distinct from their TTO, but the University of Cincinnati has apparently decided that when it comes to marketing IP “one head is better than two,” and has merged its Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and its Intellectual Property Office (IPO) into a single unit — the newly created Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs and Technology Commercialization. The office is headed by Dorothy H. Air, PhD, associate VP for entrepreneurial affairs, who had been in charge of the Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs.“We’ve had the IPO for a long time, and the Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs for past 10 years,” says Air, “but they were set up with somewhat different agendas. The IPO took a more traditional approach, handling licensing agreements, for example, while the Office of Entrepreneurial Affairs also sought to commercialize IP coming out of our research programs — but more down the start-up path.” The IPO, she adds, historically has sought private sector partners to commercialize technology developed at UC.
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