<span id="docs-internal-guid-809f18af-881c-6641-d00c-857d10c2f2a3"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Actively supporting the university technology transfer function:</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Office of Technology Transfer here at Morgan State University is a key tool that supports all entrepreneurs and innovators that have copyright needs or patents. They support all faculty and students that partake in research within the labs and facilities. They focus on intellectual property issues that may be concerning an individual. The purpose of The Office of Technology Transfer is</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(77, 64, 60); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to serve as a fully integrated center, structured to manage Morgan State’s intellectual property, fulfill the university's federal obligations, interact with industry to commercialize university intellectual property, foster economic development, and ultimately increase Morgan State’s resources to support its strategic goals. This office needs to operate at its highest level at all times. The students and researchers need to know all the rules and regulations to take their creations and discoveries to the industry smoothly and properly, and with the help of the Office of Technology Transfer, Morgan State can accomplish that.</span></span>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> <span id="docs-internal-guid-809f18af-881c-6641-d00c-857d10c2f2a3"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration: </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The step from gathering your findings within a campus and getting it fine tuned to present to the industry is not an easy task, and requires the right tools and mentoring for a successful launch in the industry world. Morgan provides a few options to students who need help making the transition into the industry. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Strategy focuses on supporting start-up entrepreneurs in getting the right advice and helping with longevity and success. Directed by Robert Singh, PhD., who is apart of this big movement, he is a big believer in inclusive entrepreneurship and would like to make incubators available that meets all the needs of the different student/entrepreneurs who will be accessing its services. The Earl G. Graves Business Building, which is the newest addition at MSU, will be the location of many of these spaces and tools.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-809f18af-881c-6641-d00c-857d10c2f2a3"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission of the Patuxent Environmental & Aquatic Research Laboratory (PEARL) is to provide society with the knowledge to solve its environmental challenges through research, education and economic development. This is the biggest link Morgan (since 2004) has that focuses on bettering the community by research and findings based on the community needs. It is located near the Patuxent River in Saint Leonard, Maryland. Its laboratory capabilities include Benthic, Pelagic & Near Shore Monitoring, Water Quality Monitoring, Power Plant and Industrial Compliance, Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, GIS in Coastal Waters, Quantitative Analysis and Modeling, Natural Resource Economics, and Population and Community Ecology. We need to ensure that this lab is being utilized at its fullest potential and if there is needs for improvement, gather funds from sponsors to help the community strive.</span></span>