A New Approach to Intellectual Property Management and Industrially Funded Research at Penn State

摘要

At Penn State, we have always been mindful of the core and strategic aspects of our mission, and we take these very seriously. Key among these is student success; Penn State's first-place ranking in the 2010 Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters reinforced this for us. The first priority in the university's strategic plan is to ensure student success, and this new approach will help us to do this. Although the law makes clear that we cannot change our responsibilities in the management of IP resulting from research funded withrnfederal dollars, the fact that there is so much more research that can be done with industry makes this change well worth pursuing.