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== Encouraging faculty innovation Faculty Innovation and entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship ==

<span style="font-size:small"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37f1-713d-a1b9-9e507459670e"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee innovation and entrepreneurship are encouraged within their , faculty and staff. Faculty are urged to forge partnerships with local businesses to collaborate on research projects and develop new technologies. The UWM Research Foundation is an auxiliary resource for the university and the catalyst on campus for faculty innovation. The goals of with the UWM-RF is goal to provide opportunities for faculty and staff to gain venture funding, develop intellectual property, form a business unit, and truly go out and create a business. The UWM Research Foundation has created a set of programs designed to bridge the gap between research and commercialization. These programs target a range of activities from early discovery through commercialization. The Research Fellows Program provides grants to graduate students over and above other types of support; these "kicker grants" help UWM faculty in key areas to attract and retain the best and brightest students who play a critical role in their research programs. The Catalyst Grant Program provides seed funding to research projects with high potential for return on investment - through commercialization or ability to attract funding from other sources. The objective with faculty entrepreneurs is also to promote corporate partnerships and startup companies in hopes that they can commercialize ideas as they reach later stages of maturity. Underlying all of these activities is the management of intellectual property - which including assessing ideas, protecting intellectual property through patents and copyrights as well as licensing activities.</span></span></span>

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<span style="font-size:small"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6606fdbc-37f6-7ccf-eed7-fbabd90b62d7"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">UWM Director of Web and Mobile Strategy: intermMark Jacobson (markj@uwm.edu)</span></span></span>