== '''Innovation Partnership Services''' ==
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Background: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;">Innovation Partnership Services ( formerly known as Technology Transfer), is a part of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. IPS partners with UO innovators, the public and industry to accelerate the adoption of innovations derived from UO research and education</span>
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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>
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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;">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. Services include: patent filing, confidentiality/material transfer agreements, and helping UO innovators navigate federal and state policy.</span>
= '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' =