= <span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ohio University’s faculty is an intrinsically motivated and</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;">highly innovative </span><span style="font-size:small;">group</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of</span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"> professionals</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. F</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">aculty members across colleges have worked on research that has helped generate over eight and a half million dollars in licensing revenue. This earned Ohio Univesrity the title of "most revenue generating university in Ohio" in 2011. Most of the revenue was generated by the Ohio University’s license to the Pfizer corporation for a growth hormone receptor antagonist. This technology is used as a therapeutic for patients with acromegaly, a form of gigantism. </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Along with the technologies that Ohio University faculty have worked on, faculty members also engage the innovative culture on campus. Over the</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;">past</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">year,</span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">and staff at Ohio University have participated in a forum called the Innovation Strategy Interim Report.The goal of the forum is to advance forward-looking strategies for collaborative research and innovative academic programs that benefit OHIO students </span><span style="font-size:small;">and</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">while</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">engaging with communities regionally and globally. </span></span></span></span>