School:Oklahoma State University
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- 2 Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- 3 Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- 4 University Technology Transfer Function
- 5 University-Industry Collaboration
- 6 Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts
- 7 Oklahoma State University Research Centers and Facilities
- 8 Landscape Canvas
- 9 Related Links
Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
When students think of innovation and entrepreneurship on Oklahoma State University’s campus they will point you to the Riata Center for Entrepreneurship in the Sears Business Building. They offer a wide range of opportunities for students to learn or engage in entrepreneurship. Oklahoma State offers degree programs for undergrad, masters, and doctorate programs for students wanting to major in entrepreneurship. This is the place that will guide you in getting the help or information that you need. Innovation is embedded and encouraged by each college, which allows students to flourish in their creativity.
Here are some ways that students at Oklahoma State University are engaging in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Big Idea – Pitch and Poster Competition
Big Idea – Business Model
Women’s Inspire Conference – Women in entrepreneurship
TedXOstateU - Ideas worth sharing
Inventors Assistance Services - Provides guidance and research
Entrepreneurship Club – Foundation for innovation
Inspire Conference – Programs for venture start-ups.
New Product Development – New product concept
Cowboy Idea Hatchery – Student Business Incubator
Fulbright Program – Grants for students
New Venture Lab – Student business incubator
Cowboy Technology – Commercialization program
Innovation Engineering – technical assistance and business advice
Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Not only does Oklahoma State University offer an entrepreneurship degree, but also in twelve different colleges they provide opportunities for students to take entrepreneurship classes. Faculty is dispersed in different areas so if an agriculture student wants to develop a new feeder like 3cCattle they are able to take entrepreneurship classes. Faculty is given the option to apply for grants like the Presidents Cup, Fulbright, Provost, NCIIA, Koch, and fellowships within each college. The Riata Center of Entrepreneurship offers a facility fellowship and gives seed money to help develop their project.
University Technology Transfer Function
Oklahoma State University offers a wide range of technology transfer. The Technology Development Center (TDC) covers various legal aspects of inventions originating from OSU faculties and students, which ranges from initial invention disclosures to filing patents and beyond. Their mission is to foster the creation of innovative technologies and to manage those technologies and other intellectual properties for the benefit of the University and the public.
TDC have various programs to support technology transfer. Their unique program called Technology Business Development Program identifies projects with high commercial potential and supports the advancement of those projects to the point of licensing. The program provides a series of internal grands that fund feasibility demonstration (up to $5000) and prototype development (up to $50000). It also features a high level of research faculty involvement, commercialization assessment and networking opportunites.
TDC collaborates with Cowboy Technologies, LLC, which is a for profit entity established to provide early seed-stage activites for OSU-developed technologies. Cowboy Technologies picks TDC managed OSU technologies with high commercial potential and nurtures to take these to the next stage.
TDC also collaborates with qualified faculty researchers through a program called CoStart. This program facilitates the process of starting a company using OSU-licensed intellectual property by a faculty. CoStart Serves researchers who need extensive instrumentation that is unavailable outside of their university laboratory by allowing access to lab facilities at affordable reimbursement.
University-Industry Collaboration
Oklahoma State University is apart of University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP). UIDP provides a unique forum for university and industry representatives to meet and discuss operational and strategic issues such as contracting, intellectual property, and compliance matters. The Technology Development Center maintains relationships with industry and makes intentional relationships to further their industry by inquiring about their needs that could be fulfilled by Oklahoma State’s researchers.
Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts
Oklahoma State University has partnered with i2E, Inc., a nationally recognized private not-for-profit corporation focused on growing innovative small businesses in Oklahoma and making a positive impact on the state’s economy.
Oklahoma State University is also involved with Oklahoma Proof of Concept Center. The project is designed to determine optimal market alignment, create a commercialization road map and ascertain the amount of funding required to achieve initial product development and market entry.
OSU's Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED) connects the university with business and government, transforming vision into reality for Oklahoma's future and growth.
The food and agricultural center (FAPC) helps producers, processors and entrepreneurs add value to Oklahoma's food and agricultural processing industries.
The Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station (OAES) conducts research for the purpose of developing new knowledge to address the needs of Oklahomans. OAES research focuses on agriculture, natural resources, rural economies and social issues.
Oklahoma State University Research Centers and Facilities
- Aerospace Professional Development Center
- Aging Systems Sustainment and Enabling Technologies
- Agricultural Experiment Station
- Analgesia Research Laboratory
- Autism Research Group
- Bioinformatics Core Facility (BIOinfOSU)
- Bert Cooper Engineering Lab https://cive.okstate.edu/
- Caddo Research Station
- Center for Applications of Remote Sensing
- Center for Applied Economic Research
- Center for Computer Integrated Manufacturing
- Center for Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
- Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (CELDI)
- Center for Family Resilience (OSU-Tulsa)
- Center for Family Services
- Center for Hospitality and Tourism Research
- Center for Information Based Bioengineering and Manufacturing (CINBM)
- Center for Local Government Technology
- Center for Oklahoma Studies
- Center for Rural Health
- Center for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events
- Crystal Growth Laboratory
- Eastern Research Station
- Dynamic Ecosystem & Biodiversity Observatory
- Ecotoxicology and Water Quality Research Laboratory
- Educational Technology Center
- Electron Microprobe
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Stillwater
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Tulsa
- Engineering Energy Laboratory
- English Language Institute
- Environmental Institute
- Fire Service Training https://www.osufst.org/
- Gerontology Institute
- Henry Bellmon Research Center
- interdisciplinary Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (iCREST)
- Industry Assessment Center
- Institute for Protective Apparel Research and Technology
- Institute of Research in Information Systems
- Institute for Sustainable Environments
- International Fire Service Training Association https://shop.ifsta.org/
- International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
- Manufacturing Processes and Materials Center
- Metabolic and Nutrition Phenotyping Core Facility
- Microarray Core Facility
- Mechanical Engineering Technology Fablab
- National Energy Solutions Institute
- New Product Development Center
- Oklahoma Food and Agricultural Products Research and Technology Center
- Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- Oklahoma Mesonetwork
- Oklahoma Statewide Shared Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
- Oklahoma Technology & Research Park (OTRP)
- Oklahoma Water Resources Research Institute (OWRRI)
- OSU Forestry Research Station
- Plant Transformation Facility
- Powder XRD Core Facility
- Psychological Services Center
- Randall and Carol White Reading and Mathematics Center
- Recombinant DNA/ Protein Resource Facility
- Signal Processing and Analysis Center
- South Central Research Station
- Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
- Technology Education Center (OSU-OKC)
- Telecommunication and Network Security
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Research
- University Multispectral Laboratory (OSU-UML)
- Venture I OSU Laboratories at the Oklahoma Technology & Research Park (OTRP)
- Web Handling Research Center
- Wellness Center
Mission Statement
Oklahoma State University is a multi-campus public land grant educational system that improves the lives of people in Oklahoma, the nation, and the world through integrated, high-quality teaching, research, and outreach. The instructional mission includes undergraduate, graduate, technical, extension, and continuing education informed by scholarship and research. The research, scholarship, and creative activities promote human and economic development through the expansion of knowledge and its application.
Vision Statement
Oklahoma State University System will advance the quality of life in Oklahoma by fulfilling the instructional, research, and outreach obligations of a first-class, land grant educational system.
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