*<span id="docs-internal-guid-62f47f5c-7fff-f75d-ed85-04356fb47353"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span>
*<span id="docs-internal-guid-62f47f5c-7fff-f75d-ed85-04356fb47353"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facilitating university – industry collaboration</span></span>
*<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4fc08032-7fff-5ab6-44aa-ee37c44163d6"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; 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 Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) recently followed up with the signatories to better understand their efforts to embody and implement the ideas contained within the letter, as well as to improve their ability to develop policies and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, and the commercialization of research results. OIE is conducting phone calls with every respondent to discuss their strategies and develop a general outline of each of their initiatives.</span></span>