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<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5eef2ff9-7fff-82c0-c703-661e30c4f2d9"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty at The Ohio State University 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 pointswhile maximizing cost efficiency. However, recent assessments of faculty perception of I&E on campus has yielded some troubled thoughts on what faculty </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">thinks </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is available to help see their ideas through the product lifecyclelife-cycle, and what is&nbsp</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;''">actually&nbsp</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;''">available. In factFaculty have a misperception that there is a lack of resources designated towards them specifically.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5eef2ff9-7fff-82c0-c703-661e30c4f2d9"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The reality of the situation is that there are several organizations on campus aimed at assisting facultyin entrepreneurial endeavors. Adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical informatics Informatics have been widely successful with a number of commercial activities, ranging from consultant consultancy 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.&nbsp</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5eef2ff9-7fff-82c0-c703-661e30c4f2d9"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Recently, Ohio State became part of the KERN Entrepreneurship Education Network. Part of Essentially, this partnership looks provides a foundation 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.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><div><br/></div>