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Ohio State, OU create $35M VC funding pool
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Ohio State and Ohio universities joining forces to turn research into jobs
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Ohio State tech office’s high profile begets high expectations – Columbus – Business First
Ohio State tech office’s high profile begets high expectations – Columbus – Business First.
With flashing video screens about Ohio State University research centers in its lobby and Jetsons furniture in the lounge beyond, the glass-walled former grocery store on North High Street looks more like a travel agency than an office for licenses and patents.
That’s by design. The new $2 million headquarters for OSU’s Office for Technology Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer is deliberately engaged with pedestrian traffic headed to the stores, restaurants and movies at the South Campus Gateway in Columbus.
“We like the idea of keeping it as a supermarket,” said Brian Cummings, who started in June as vice president over …
OSU’s tech commercialization office is helping to create a brand new day for ohio’s economy
OSU’s tech commercialization office is helping to create a brand new day for ohio’s economy.
Wake Up, Start Up! That’s the name of a new monthly morning pitch series hosted by the Ohio State University’s Technology Commercialization Office. The thing is, you’ve got to get up pretty early to be an innovator in today’s high tech economy. Yet with the help of Central Ohio’s leading entrepreneurs and brightest thinkers, OSU is not only waking up Ohio’s new economy, it’s helping to grow it, too.
Big Plans to Take University Research to Market
In an interview with OSU’s onCampus, Vice President for Technology Commercalization Brian Cummings discusses his thoughts about the OSU technology landscape and ideas on how to commercialize this research.
“I’ve seen some of the most amazing ideas — new plant varieties, devices to sanitize eggs, new therapeutics, medical devices, software, clean energy, biofuels — we have too much brainpower, too much capacity for these ideas not to be making more hay from it.”
Cummings sees his office as a service center — not only for faculty, but also for students, colleges and units, the university as a whole and the state of Ohio.
“Honestly, it’s not really about the money, though if we do all the right things, the money will come,” he said. “It’s about building a robust program, developing students into the next generation of entrepreneurs who want and know how to take risks, connecting business and industry with the right brainpower.
“It’s a much more holistic approach than just grabbing someone’s invention and taking it to market. It’s about training the next generation, about finding new funding and resources at a time when it’s harder to get those federal dollars. It’s about getting a return on everyone’s investment and creating a robust economic engine, because great economies are built around great institutions.”
OSU Names New Commercialization Chief
Brian A. Cummings, who helped build a top-tier technology commercialization program at the University of Utah, will lead Ohio State’s strategy to advance the economic and global impact of the university’s most promising technologies. Subject to approval by the Board of Trustees, his appointment as Vice President for Technology Commercialization will be effective June 1. More…