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*<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666pxsmall; "><span style="font-family:Arialarial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">Background: </span><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">Innovation Partnership Services ( formerly known as Technology Transfer), is a part of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. &nbsp;IPS &nbsp;partners with UO innovators, the public and industry to accelerate the adoption of innovations derived from UO research and education</span></span></span>

*<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666pxsmall; "><span style="font-family:Arialarial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">Mission: </span><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">as a fundamental extension of UO’s teaching and public benefits missions, IPS strives to employ a diversity of innovation management pathways to connect University research to societal benefit.</span></span></span>

*<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666pxsmall; "><span style="font-family:Arialarial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">What they do: </span><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline;">moves innovation into public use by identifying and creating channels for relationships between university innovators and industry, for investment and for development of user communities. &nbsp;Services include: patent filing, confidentiality/material transfer agreements, and helping UO innovators navigate federal and state policy.</span></span></span>