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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">It is the responsibility of the Office of Research Commercialization to recognize when a technology is considered groundbreaking, especially after winning many accolades (i.e. Dr. Harvinder Gill's Pollen and Microneedle patents). Staff should be taught to analyze and interface with faculty regularly following up with faculty on their projects and &nbsp;interest in industry partners. It would help if there were subject matter experts in the office with technical qualifications in the faculty disciplines; be it a phD in engineering, Biology, Computer Science and MBA and a JD. The staff in the commercialization office needs to be motivated</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(510, 510, 510); fontbackground-stylecolor: italictransparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">A relatively new avenue for research commercialization is the Kinetic accelerator. It's run by someone with many years of experience in this field and they specifically encourage students to take on the task of commercializing TTU research and patents.</span></span>