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Oklahoma State University offers a wide range of technology transfer. The [http://tdc.okstate[Www.edu/content/about-tdc technology transfer] office solicits and evaluates new inventions. The mission of the [http://tdc.okstate.edu/content/about-tdc |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 property properties for the benefit of the University and the public. Oklahoma State University is a land grant university.

TDC have various programs to support technology transfer. Their unique program called [httphttps://tdc.okstate.edu/technology-business-development-program-tbdp The Technology Business Development Program] was established at OSU in 2005 to identify identifies projects with high commercial potential and to support supports the advancement of those projects to the point of licensing.  TBDP includes The program provides a series of internal grants grands that fund feasibility demonstration (up to $5,0005000) and prototype development (up to $30,00050000).  The program It also features a high level of research faculty involvement, commercialization assessment and networking opportunitiesopportunites.  Invention disclosures are required  TDC collaborates with [http://www.cowboytechllc.com/about-us Cowboy Technologies, LLC], which is a for all TBDP projectsprofit 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 [https://tdc.okstate.edu/costart 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.