We contribute to FSU’s core mission of improving education, research and community service by creating partnerships between university researchers and outside organizations to develop products and knowledge for the benefit of society.

In support of its mission, the OIPDC has four core goals:

• Educate: Recognize innovative and creative activity by faculty and students, inform them of opportunities, and assist them in capturing internal and external development funding via partnerships for products and services based on their work.
• Communicate: Develop an effective and efficient program to assess, document, and communicate the full value of faculty inventions, creative works, and know-how.
• Build the research base: Increase R&D income to FSU from public and private sources through technology licensing, media publication, funded research, and other funding opportunities.
• Help create knowledge-based economic development: Enhance economic development in the community, state and region by building strong ties between the public and private sectors.

Who Benefits from Commercialized Research?

1. The FSU Community
2. Industry
3. Tallahassee (Local Impact)
4. The State of Florida
5. The U.S. Government
6. The General Public

Why We Do It

In 1980, the U.S. Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act. This act mandated that any inventions arising from federally-sponsored research at a university shall be assigned to the university. In return, the university would attempt to commercialize the inventions commercialized for the benefit of the public. . In 2005, the name of the office [est. 1996 as the Office of Technology Transfer] was changed to the Office of Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization.