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<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ohio university’s faculty is intrinsically motivated and a highly innovative group</span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Ohio university’s faculty is intrinsically motivated and a highly innovative group <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of &nbsp;professionals</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. &nbsp;Through the different departments on </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">campus </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">the faculty has worked on research that helped generate over 8 and a half million dollars in licensing revenue. &nbsp;This earned us the first place spot in 2011 for the most revenue generating university in Ohio. &nbsp;Most of the revenue was generated by the Ohio University’s license to the Pfizer corporation for a growth hormone receptor antagonist. This technology is used as a therapeutic for patients with acromegaly, a form of gigantism. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span idstyle="docsfont-internalfamily:arial,helvetica,sans-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783dserif;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Along with the incredible technologies that Ohio University faculty have worked on they also continue to engage the innovative culture on campus. &nbsp;Over the past </span></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-fc12e773-3c69-8e7d-7a6d-9ac34df3783d"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">year </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty and staff at OHIO have been engaged in a forum called Innovation Strategy Interim Report. &nbsp;The goal of the forum is to advance forward-looking strategies for collaborative research and innovative academic programs that benefit OHIO students and </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">faculty, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">while engaging with communities regionally and globally. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smallmedium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Faculty also encourage students to innovate. Whether it be through the Center for Entrepreneurship or extra-curricular activities like start-up weekend or Ohio University Entrepreneurs, students who are active will be guided to meet and form relationships with resources and individuals that can help them take their idea to the next level. Furthermore, resources on campus are friendly to all entrepreneurs including students. For example, the Innovation Center leases space for </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">start ups </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and would not hesitate </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">working </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">with students. TechGrowth Ohio is often present at any entrepreneurial event on campus and offers really awesome services to students. TechGrowth has the </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">resourecs </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">to help students </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">commericalize </span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">their technology or help them seek investments.&nbsp;</span></span>