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-Ball State-
Offices: Muncie, Indiana
Risk, vision, and spirit are at the heart of the remarkable success of Ball
State University's Entrepreneurship Center and its graduates. Achieving
top national rankings since it was founded more than 20 years ago, the program
has become well known as the "ultimate entrepreneurial experience." Ball
State, with a commitment to outreach and research through the Entrepreneurship
Center, as home base for the National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
Offices: Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University Office of Technology Development provides both venture
capital and access to Boston University and Boston Medical Center’s scientific
and technical resources for growing companies. They invest in early stage
technology and life science companies, license Boston University technology
to corporations, and build new companies around promising technologies.-CalTech-
Offices: Pasadena, California
CalTech Office of Technology Transfer is responsible for the licensing and
transfer of technologies from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). OTT provides a service to Caltech
faculty members, students, other Caltech researchers, and JPL technologists
by protecting the intellectual property developed in their Caltech and JPL
laboratories. Caltech's licensing efforts have increased dramatically in
the past few years, and currently roughly forty to fifty patent licenses
and options are executed each year.
Offices: Kansas City, Kansas
Center for Ventures Education sponsors the Kauffman Fellowship, an educational
program designed to educate and train emerging leaders in venture capital
and high-growth companies. The Fellowship is dedicated to enhancing the
human investment in the venture capital process globally. The Center is
committed to enhancing the human investment in the venture capital process
globally, as it continues to build educational programs to educate, develop
and network the leaders in the venture building process.
Offices: Clemson, South Carolina
The Office of Technology Transfer has University-wide responsibility to
implement the objectives of the Patent Policy and the Computer Software
Copyright Policy. In doing so, the Office coordinates all patent and copyright
activities, including the review, marketing, and licensing of patents and
computer software copyrights. The Office works in conjunction with the Clemson
University Research Foundation (CURF) to commercialize university intellectual
property through licensing agreements and new venture formation.-DePaul University-
Offices: Chicago, Illinois
The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center is an entrepreneurship support organization
(ESO) at DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. The
Center offers assistance and programs to help entrepreneurs succeed, particularly
those who have completed their business planning process or have operating
ventures. Through its consulting services and educational programming, the
CEC gives entrepreneurs practical and thoughtful guidance to build their
businesses.
Offices: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Drexel University holds a unique place in higher education and research
as Philadelphia's technological university. Drexel's Entrepreneurship
& Technology Commercialization Office's mission is to commercialize Drexel
intellectual property, to bring benefit to the society and to add value
to the university, inventors and the community—in addition, foster entrepreneurial
spirit at the University."-Harvard University-
Offices: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University's Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing (OTTL)
is charged with: bringing University-generated intellectual property into
public use as rapidly as possible while protecting academic freedoms and
generating a financial return to the University, inventors and their departments;
serving as a resource to faculty and staff on interactions with industry,
and; protecting against unauthorized third-party use of the University's
various trademarks worldwide and to license their use on approved merchandise,
generating income for support of undergraduate financial aid.
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