Changes

Faculty at Ohio State are renowned academic researchers, creating applications with potential for widespread impact in areas ranging from third world public health solutions, all the way to access to basic resources and materials at incredibly low price points. However, recent assessments of faculty perception of I&E on campus has yielded some troubled thoughts on what faculty thinks is available to help see their ideas through the product lifecycle, and what is ''actually ''available. In fact, there are several organizations on campus aimed at assisting faculty. Adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical informatics have been widely successful with a number of commercial activities, ranging from consultant work to founding and creating their own software and clinical workflow startups. In fact, many of these startups have gone on to become mainstream components of the Ohio State University workflow and gold standards, a feat depicting the high levels of support that are offered to faculty through organizations like TechColumbus, BioOhio and the Technology Commercialization Office and IDEA Studio at Ohio State.  Recently, Ohio State became part of the KERN Entrepreneurship Education Network. Part of this partnership looks to increase the amount of faculty engagement with I&E. Lastly, the Institute for Materials Research connects its network of faculty and researchers to companies looking for help solving their most pressing problems. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, they provide exceptional results and access to companies.