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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ohio University may license a technology to an established business, or the faculty or staff inventor may create a startup company to do this. The Technology Transfer Office and its partners in the entrepreneurial ecosystem provide support to university inventors in the following ways:</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Executives-in-Residence from the </span>[http://www.techgrowthohio.com/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TechGROWTH Ohio</span>] <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">program offer business coaching and support, including developing a business plan, analyzing the market, company formation, hiring employees, and managing legal issues.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d">[http://www.ohio.edu/innovation <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Innovation Center</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">offers flexible office space and scientific laboratory space and equipment for startup businesses. Services also include business mentoring and networking opportunities. The LIGHTS program within the Innovation Center offers start up resources to individuals in the surrounding 28 counties.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The entrepreneurial ecosystem offers access to funding opportunities, such as growth grants and pre-seed investment from TechGROWTH Ohio, as well as connections to regional venture capital firms and other sources of financial support.</span></span>