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== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship''' ==
== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship''' <br/> == == '''The Deliberate Innovation for Faculty (DIFF) is a service provided specifically for University Faculty to learn how to bring their research ideas to fruition by translating their inventions to the publick through commericalization, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.'''<br/> ==<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: proxima-nova-condensed-1, proxima-nova-condensed-2, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Each DIFF faculty members are undertaking transformational projects to fundamentally enhance the Purdue entrepreneurial ecosystem, as a way to gain practical outcomes from basic research. As such, DIFF faculty members strive to work with their peers to help guide research proposal opportunities or potential research collaborations that include entrepreneurship, technology transfer and commercialization as positive differentiators from project inception</span>
== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function '''<br/> ==
<span style="font-size:small;">Purdue's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) specializes in taking university-driven innovations and bringing them to market. Services of the OTC support the economic development of Purdue University and the tech industry of Indiana. </span>
The OTC provides extensive resources in protecting, marketing, and liscencing the University's intellectual property. By working alongside Purdue faculty-, staff- and student-entrepreneurs to provide the resources needed to better understand Purdue policies related to intellectual property, as well as the processes whereby this intellectual property (patents, copyright, trademarks, and tangible research property) can become an actual product or service, the OTC brings invention to the next level. Furthrer, to ensure the long-term success of the innovations, OTC utilizes inventors to partner with startup companies to provide support and qualified management teams.