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In the spring of 2018, students from current and past UIF leadership circles partnered with the Herron School of Art + Design's faculty and students in the MFA, Visual Communication Design program to perform design research around the challenge: How might we create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship on campus? This project, which has the support of campus administration, seeks to understand the problem space and propose solutions.
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Technology Transfer Functions</span> ==<p style="text-alignThe [http: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The //iurtc.iu.edu/index.shtml Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC) ] is an off -campus organization that serves as IUPUI's technology transfer office. Whether a student's goal is to commercialize his or her product, secure rights on intellectual property, or to patent an invention, the IURTC helps them accomplish their goals.</span></span></p><p style ="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Commercialization:<br/>T<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20.0063px;">he == The technology commercialization process can be started with IURTC by completing an </span><span style="line-height: 20.0063px;">Invention Disclosure Form</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20.0063px;"> that is reviewed and copied to the student's department chair, the dean of their school or college, and the chancellor or provost at their campus.</span></span></span></p><p style ="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20.0063px;">Startups:<br/>=== The IURTC has helped multiple undergraduate and graduate student run startups get their feet off the ground including:</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20.0063px;"> *[http://www.assemblybio.com/ Assembly]: </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">A startup biopharmaceutical company researching treatment for hepatitis B and CDAD</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 20.0063px;">*Anagin: Another start up developing an over the counter medication for PTSD</span></span></span></p><p style ="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Software Licensing and Intellectual Property Rights:<br/>=== The IURTC also assists in helping students secure intellectual property rights for ideas that they develop but are unsure of what steps to take next as well as licensing software to companies.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Website Link: [http://iurtc.iu.edu/index.shtml http://iurtc.iu.edu/index.shtml]</span></span></p>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>University-Industry Collaboration</u></span> =
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(55, 62, 77); line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">IUPUI is currently collabortating with the Lugar Center for Alternative Energy Resources to do active research on campus. </span><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); line-height: 17.94px; white-space: pre-wrap;">IUPUI's affiliation with the Luger Center for Alternative Energy Research stems from the school's dedication to innovative solutions to enivironmental problems as a research-based institution. In pursuit of alternative energies, student organizations such as The Brain Trust, Sustainability Councils, and SEDS actively attempt to bring student-led initiatives to a public and professional developmental level. Currently in progress is a bid for a self-sustained orbital space station for human life support, programs to increase environment-sustainable awareness in the community, and a project to produce self-contained shipping crate housing solutions for students interested in sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation.</span></span></span></p>
