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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Mission: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">as a fundamental extension of UO’s teaching and public benefits missions, IPS strives to employ a diversity of innovation management pathways to connect University research to societal benefit.</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">What they do: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">moves innovation into public use by identifying and creating channels for relationships between university innovators and industry, for investment and for development of user communities. &nbsp;Services include: patent filing, confidentiality/material transfer agreements, and helping UO innovators navigate federal and state policy.</span>